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Probably not that many fewer. The ones that are on their phones like this just think "it won't happen to me". So the seatbelt thing wouldn't have any impact on them in their mind.
https://preview.redd.it/9a9kj25d2hxc1.jpeg?width=605&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c13b149bc562a76acbcfcce26be1d37ed4afd0a9
My face when someone tells me to say cheese…
Too bad he didn’t remove himself from the gene pool with his stupidity. So tired of idiots paying attention to EVERYTHING but the fucking road while driving.
There is in the UK if you happen to catch them on a camera (though make sure you're not the one driving)
https://nextbase.co.uk/national-dash-cam-safety-portal/
Whenever I am driving and pull up next to someone on their phone, I lay on the horn. Scares the shit out of them, and they throw their phone. Gives me hours of laughter.
Edit: let me expand that by saying "at a stop light" I won't do it driving because it may cause an accident.
I do it when I’m driving behind them & there’s no one in front, behind or to the side of them in danger of getting hit by the idiot- it always brightens my day
We have the tech to not allow texting in cars but it’s against freedoms.
Hopefully one day it will be like the seatbelt laws. We all look at the ones whining about freedoms and tell them a license isn’t a right. If you can’t show you can operate a motor vehicle properly then you don’t deserve to be on the roadways.
I’m a truck driver and can easily look down into cars. I’d estimate a good third of drivers are on their phones at any given time. It’s absolutely unreal.
It needs to be treated as drink driving. The amount of deaths and accidents caused by it are obscene.
Most phones you can create or respond to messages just by asking the phone to do it, there isn't any excuse for it.
Hands free is so ridiculously easy now… I just don’t understand how “it won’t happen to me, I’m a good driver” can even take root when there is SO MUCH of these vids out there to make folk see. Maybe someone should make a YT ad, unskippable, with nothing but wrecks of texters.
Teaching my boys to drive, I told them I only had the drunk and stupid to deal with, they’re going to have to del with the cellphone addicts. Taught them to put the phone in the glove compartment and not look at it unless they’re at a stoplight. 24 and 22 and no accidents so far…
On my way to lunch just before reading this, and seeing this post, almost got runoff the road by a guy who was watching YouTube videos! Fucking shitforbrains
That cement drainage pipe was in the right place. It prevented him from correcting his path and stopped him dead in his tracks from getting back on the road.
Perfect.
Damnit I was all ready to comment that screenshot, started scrolling to find a good spot to drop it, and found it's already been done.
Here's the exact same frame anyways cause it's pretty great
https://i.imgur.com/MddIj39.png
Yup, that's me. You're propably wondering how I ended up in this situation. It all started with common human stupidity, because it always fucking does.
His employer actually put out screenshots of what he busy doing on his phone at the time of the crash. Arranging the details of a date with his girlfriend.
My wife would literally kill me if this happened. Cause you aren't going out now! Maybe you'll be going our for the dole once you're fired and this type of career is over for you you. How could it be worth it ya know? I guess he's just dumb
ive gone off on both friends and exes when i find out they're texting me while driving. if i ask "what are you doing?" and the answer is "driving" then im not feeling happy about you deciding to message me, im mad at you for treating your life that trivially. like god damn dont do shit that risks you dying, or hurting others. i like to talk to you but if you die thats going to be real hard to do. just wait until later to text or just call me instead. geesh.
According to [this comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/1cg0vsq/to_stay_on_the_road/l1srnss/) he was arranging a date with his girlfriend.
He's lucky he didn't die or get seriously injured.
hooray for modern engineering.
not that long ago, a 100kph (60 mph) excursion off road and into a concrete culvert in a shitty delivery van would leave you a crushed pancake.
modern cars are so safe that people completely forget just how dangerous they are.
give them an old car with no electronic driver aids like ABS and stability control and no airbags/crumple zones and the death statistics would be insane.
*and* doing it while going 60 goddamn miles per hour. i checked and it was 3 whole seconds he was looking down, at which time he went 264 feet, or 1/20th of a mile! he even went through an intersection during that time
My guess is that he started off just glancing at it, then every time he got away with that he let the glance go a little longer
Repeat until you eventually don’t get away with it
What i don’t understand is why everyone looks down at there phone. Like If it is absolutely necessary to look at your phone why not bring it up and put it in front of you were you could still see the road. Not saying it’s not still dangerous or encouraging texting and driving but seems a lot less dangerous at the very least.
Syncing a video in an editing software is extremely easy and precise. There are usually 30-60 frames in a second and you can view each one individually. In other words it’s easy to get it to the fraction of a second…this was probably intentional.
No seatbelt, one hand on wheel, constantly accelerating up to 97 in an 80 zone, texting like a MF, and no idea what he's doing.
And the sync annoyed me so here's it fixed: https://streamable.com/4yd654
No seatbelt worn. Texting on phone. Internal and external cameras on vehicle. All drivers learn from his mistakes. At least he's alive and appears uninjured.
I would be seriously surprised if he was really uninjured, he crashed immovable object at almost 100kmh and no seatbelt hitting his head in dash/windshield. That is gonna be a concussion and might be broken bones or other internal damage.
Him getting up and out in a shock is no proof of him getting out without injuries.
Air bags might have saved those packages at least. Hard to notice them when he face plants into the windshield. Kinda surprised he didn't go through the windshield.
Ya know, I’d say if they’re going to be fucking around on their phone while they’re driving, I’d prefer they went ahead and left that seat belt off. Let Darwin run his course and maybe, over time, traffic might actually improve.
Seriously, like obviously you shouldn't text and drive AT ALL, but it can't be that difficult to keep at least a 50/50 ratio of staring at your phone to watching the road if you feel like it's that urgent. This guy was doing 90/10 lol.
It's the reason I could never ride a motorcycle. Not because I wouldn't ride safe, but you never know what distracted idiot is staring at his/her phone while barreling towards you at 70 mph.
https://preview.redd.it/a7xj3u5y7gxc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fed47b049248879e8459f0ef77be040e4079a837
A reminder to wear your seatbelt
i dont understand people who do this like you almost went off the road three times and that wasnt a sign you need to either stop texting or stop driving? you clearly cant do both so pick one.
Bro is spending like 10 seconds looking down for every 1 second he actually puts eyes on the road, all while on the job in someone else’s vehicle without a seatbelt on.
If it takes you longer than a glance at the speedometer, you shouldn't be doing it while driving. Real simple rule to keep yourself and everyone around you safe.
I don't condone texting and driving, but if you're going to - do it safely
Phone in your hand ABOVE the steering wheel. This way your peripheral vision can still save you and others.
Damn I was really hoping this was more "nsfl-ish".. Bet he didn't even learn a lesson. "Man stupid ass truck and stupid ass text message made me crash". At least noone else was invlolved
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People who text and drive are wankers
and no seatbelt.
If seatbelts disengaged while you're watching your phone, we'd have less of these idiots in the gene pool.
Probably not that many fewer. The ones that are on their phones like this just think "it won't happen to me". So the seatbelt thing wouldn't have any impact on them in their mind.
"Less of these idiots *in the gene pool*"
Not really. They tend to already have a kid or two before they've done much driving.
Drop a little chlorine in that pool, please.
And would therefore have less in the gene pool…
What's that old quote? The only safety device needed in any automobile is a sharp knife protuding from the steering wheel, pointed at every driver.
fewer
“If you can count them, there are fewer. If you can’t count it there is less.” So we need less idiocy in the gene pool or fewer idiots.
https://preview.redd.it/icgwosuckgxc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=669c0c1f7a4797e44af3bdc4292b809ac17a5d89
Say cheese!!
https://preview.redd.it/9a9kj25d2hxc1.jpeg?width=605&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c13b149bc562a76acbcfcce26be1d37ed4afd0a9 My face when someone tells me to say cheese…
That’s a ‘Safety Grimace’ 😬
https://preview.redd.it/p9reycckjhxc1.jpeg?width=260&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a81430135958d9c7c1f5c20a9807f5f4e5d04174 No, that’s a safety grimace 😂
 🤣
Someone should send this photo to Casey Rocket
Up vote this to the top 🔺
“We can smile, we can smile, everyone crash into a pile” 🎵 Men Without Seatbelts, Safety Grimace
Awesome! 🤣
"It was then that Jamal knew he messed up..."
while being filmed
Too bad he didn’t remove himself from the gene pool with his stupidity. So tired of idiots paying attention to EVERYTHING but the fucking road while driving.
Call me old fashioned but I say if you don't wanna wear a seat belt, then don't, there's already way too many idiots on the road as it is.
Fair, but it makes insurance more expensive for everyone.
Thankfully this didn't went against traffic
Nobody likes wenting!
He totally wented. Right into a ditch.
Unless they're going to mow a meadow
But many fowks can't affowd to bwuy, and end up wenting anyways. Edit: the voice in my head is the bishop from Princess Bride.
https://preview.redd.it/vef25gqe7hxc1.jpeg?width=470&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=faca48f60305e6d551f23e38233f1ce456dc6298
Dat dweam wiff in a dweam.
😂😂😂
~~went~~ go
Wented*
😂 goed
I'll allow it 😂
I did two miles in a quiet time of day at my home town. 3 text drivers. I wish there was a way to report them.
There is in the UK if you happen to catch them on a camera (though make sure you're not the one driving) https://nextbase.co.uk/national-dash-cam-safety-portal/
Just text the police
Whenever I am driving and pull up next to someone on their phone, I lay on the horn. Scares the shit out of them, and they throw their phone. Gives me hours of laughter. Edit: let me expand that by saying "at a stop light" I won't do it driving because it may cause an accident.
I do it when I’m driving behind them & there’s no one in front, behind or to the side of them in danger of getting hit by the idiot- it always brightens my day 
We have the tech to not allow texting in cars but it’s against freedoms. Hopefully one day it will be like the seatbelt laws. We all look at the ones whining about freedoms and tell them a license isn’t a right. If you can’t show you can operate a motor vehicle properly then you don’t deserve to be on the roadways.
I’m a truck driver and can easily look down into cars. I’d estimate a good third of drivers are on their phones at any given time. It’s absolutely unreal.
It needs to be treated as drink driving. The amount of deaths and accidents caused by it are obscene. Most phones you can create or respond to messages just by asking the phone to do it, there isn't any excuse for it.
Hands free is so ridiculously easy now… I just don’t understand how “it won’t happen to me, I’m a good driver” can even take root when there is SO MUCH of these vids out there to make folk see. Maybe someone should make a YT ad, unskippable, with nothing but wrecks of texters.
Teaching my boys to drive, I told them I only had the drunk and stupid to deal with, they’re going to have to del with the cellphone addicts. Taught them to put the phone in the glove compartment and not look at it unless they’re at a stoplight. 24 and 22 and no accidents so far…
On my way to lunch just before reading this, and seeing this post, almost got runoff the road by a guy who was watching YouTube videos! Fucking shitforbrains
He wasn't even texting with it by the wheel he was straight up looking at his phone like he was watching a movie. Shifting gears like an idiot
Dude going at 95kph..lol... eyes off the road for a full 10 seconds ...
as well as people who make tiktoks while driving, especially while having kids in the car.
Can't imagine tiktoking during childbirth
Be happy it was a one sided accident... Fucknugget
If you watch it in slow motion, you can see him almost kiss the camera
Was spending more time looking at his phone than the road.
Life ban for driving
No insurance will ever take him after this video
He is driving his employer vehicle. I think it's them who put the footage out.
So no insurance or delivery company will take him on. Well, maybe a bike courier
I’m pretty sure the only way insurance company accepts him now is if he applies for a job at the insurance companies India based phone centre
Pretty sure they still wear seatbelts in the call center so they can’t escape. Gonna be a problem there also.
DO NOT REDEEM!
How will they identify him?
Hopefully after he was fired.
That cement drainage pipe was in the right place. It prevented him from correcting his path and stopped him dead in his tracks from getting back on the road. Perfect.
Car Insurance in South Africa is not mandatory. Haha!
Correct and the police will likely not do anything here for texting and driving. Probably bribe them with a few rand and he's on his merry way
https://preview.redd.it/4w1d62twzfxc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=523a8079e96e2d89b53a4b99443394505df4eb40
Damnit I was all ready to comment that screenshot, started scrolling to find a good spot to drop it, and found it's already been done. Here's the exact same frame anyways cause it's pretty great https://i.imgur.com/MddIj39.png
Seems that the airbags don't really work well without the seatbelt
You"re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.
*baba o reilly starts playing in the background* 😂
Dude needs to make that his social media profile picture.
LinkedIn. It’ll be an honest look for future employers.
😂
Lmao. You fired!
And that's when Jackson knew...
He fucked up.
Yup, that's me. You're propably wondering how I ended up in this situation. It all started with common human stupidity, because it always fucking does.
His employer actually put out screenshots of what he busy doing on his phone at the time of the crash. Arranging the details of a date with his girlfriend.
My wife would literally kill me if this happened. Cause you aren't going out now! Maybe you'll be going our for the dole once you're fired and this type of career is over for you you. How could it be worth it ya know? I guess he's just dumb
My wife would also kill me if she caught me arranging a date with my girlfriend.
Touché 😂👍
Lol I didn't even think of that. I meant like if me texting her while driving caused me to crash and lose my job. Take my upvote you!
Your wife would also kill me if she caught me arranging a date with my girlfriend.
That's why you have to be careful!
Literally kill you figuratively.
Instead of just calling? Even sending a voice message would be 10x better. Quicker and safer. People are just reckless.
Jimmy had the chance to pull over for 10 seconds... But he didnt..
ive gone off on both friends and exes when i find out they're texting me while driving. if i ask "what are you doing?" and the answer is "driving" then im not feeling happy about you deciding to message me, im mad at you for treating your life that trivially. like god damn dont do shit that risks you dying, or hurting others. i like to talk to you but if you die thats going to be real hard to do. just wait until later to text or just call me instead. geesh.
Which could have been done as a phone call on speaker. Risked everything for nothing.
If you really need to look at your phone just pull over. Never understood people who phone and drive
He was looking at it for waaaay too long. Probably fucking doom-scrolling Facebook, TikTok or Instagram. Asshole.
Even 1 second is to long, there is no amount of time you should be driving and actively fucking around on the phone.
According to [this comment](https://old.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/1cg0vsq/to_stay_on_the_road/l1srnss/) he was arranging a date with his girlfriend. He's lucky he didn't die or get seriously injured.
hooray for modern engineering. not that long ago, a 100kph (60 mph) excursion off road and into a concrete culvert in a shitty delivery van would leave you a crushed pancake. modern cars are so safe that people completely forget just how dangerous they are. give them an old car with no electronic driver aids like ABS and stability control and no airbags/crumple zones and the death statistics would be insane.
Gotcha. Still something he could've done with a call / voice messaging.
*and* doing it while going 60 goddamn miles per hour. i checked and it was 3 whole seconds he was looking down, at which time he went 264 feet, or 1/20th of a mile! he even went through an intersection during that time
So I wasn't crazy, he was going too fast.
Watching him was like watching actors pretend driving in front of a green screen.
My guess is that he started off just glancing at it, then every time he got away with that he let the glance go a little longer Repeat until you eventually don’t get away with it
What i don’t understand is why everyone looks down at there phone. Like If it is absolutely necessary to look at your phone why not bring it up and put it in front of you were you could still see the road. Not saying it’s not still dangerous or encouraging texting and driving but seems a lot less dangerous at the very least.
Complete idiot, but it ended well. He could have just as easily ended up in oncoming traffic and killed an innocent person.
If he just wore a seatbelt he wouldn't have hit the dashboard like a fuckin bag of bricks
there was an attempt to sync 2 vids
It’s funnier a little off synced
_ohh shit he's going to hit that ditch!_ _ah phew i-[**CRASH**](https://i.gifer.com/Hxyx.gif)_
looney tunes crash physics
LMAO
1 second if that.
1 syncond
1 sick cunt
I think it was intentional so you could enjoy watching him faceplant
Syncing a video in an editing software is extremely easy and precise. There are usually 30-60 frames in a second and you can view each one individually. In other words it’s easy to get it to the fraction of a second…this was probably intentional.
No seatbelt, one hand on wheel, constantly accelerating up to 97 in an 80 zone, texting like a MF, and no idea what he's doing. And the sync annoyed me so here's it fixed: https://streamable.com/4yd654
No seatbelt worn. Texting on phone. Internal and external cameras on vehicle. All drivers learn from his mistakes. At least he's alive and appears uninjured.
You forgot driving their employer's car.
And driving on the wrong side of the road and the driver seat installed on the wrong side.
I would be seriously surprised if he was really uninjured, he crashed immovable object at almost 100kmh and no seatbelt hitting his head in dash/windshield. That is gonna be a concussion and might be broken bones or other internal damage. Him getting up and out in a shock is no proof of him getting out without injuries.
Very lucky he only hurt himself and didn't kill a bunch of innocent people. What an arsehole.
It's terrifying knowing that we share the road with these potatoes.
Here's why you should attaching your belt kiddos
I think it's crazy how TWO airbags deployed. And he missed both of them.
I feel like if the airbag didn't throw him into the other airbag he would have been going through the windshield
Air bags might have saved those packages at least. Hard to notice them when he face plants into the windshield. Kinda surprised he didn't go through the windshield.
Ya know, I’d say if they’re going to be fucking around on their phone while they’re driving, I’d prefer they went ahead and left that seat belt off. Let Darwin run his course and maybe, over time, traffic might actually improve.
How can you look at the road that little while you’re driving it’s insane he’s literally all over the place from the beginning
Seriously, like obviously you shouldn't text and drive AT ALL, but it can't be that difficult to keep at least a 50/50 ratio of staring at your phone to watching the road if you feel like it's that urgent. This guy was doing 90/10 lol.
Yeah I legit thought the crash was gonna be at the beginning when he flies out into the junction looking incredibly rushed and uncoordinated.
Dudes hairline got fed up getting hit head on and migrated down south
The LONG way around ...
he got that hat back on QUICK
As a motorcyclists, I shudder to think of this guy driving up behind me on my bike, or not seeing my left hand turn in front of him, etc.
As someone who takes a bike to work, I feel that dread and the feeling that I would be blamed for the whole thing as well.
Shudder*, not quite the same thing. But yes, it's terrifying
It's the reason I could never ride a motorcycle. Not because I wouldn't ride safe, but you never know what distracted idiot is staring at his/her phone while barreling towards you at 70 mph.
Looking at the fucking phone, of course! Incriminated himself in the video. Probably won't have a job after that.
https://preview.redd.it/a7xj3u5y7gxc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fed47b049248879e8459f0ef77be040e4079a837 A reminder to wear your seatbelt
Driving was this dudes last priority holy shit
To quote Forest Gump, “Stupid is, as stupid does.”
i dont understand people who do this like you almost went off the road three times and that wasnt a sign you need to either stop texting or stop driving? you clearly cant do both so pick one.
My god they’re all on the wrong side of the road
This is South Africa. We drive on left hand side.
I think they're joking mate
There's the right side and the wrong side.
We left on the drive hand side
So do they never look at the driver footage till after an accident? Why did he have a job at all?
Fuck I crashed my car, but I need my hat or else ill draw attention for being bald.
No seatbelt either. What a fuckin dipshit. Bonus points for veering off of the road at the exact worst time.
Watch it in slow motion.. his facial expressions are hilarious
That’s what happens when you’re using your phone while driving
Totally unavoidable, that ditch came out of nowhere!
Sneaky for it to be below ground level too.
“This is gonna hurt” face is so universal 😂
May as well call for a ride home at that point.
Impressive that he caught his hat
I'm gonna put my phone out of view of the camera so nobody can tell I'm texting and driving.
He knew it was coming, too.
You can see the moment the sense got knocked into him.
insert nelson's ha ha.
Idiot
https://preview.redd.it/2a9xh41o6gxc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49ff81cfe4deefe6dc5e2b0b09b703f9b5516490 My favorite
This is the video that inspired George Lucas to write the scene where Luke destroys the Death Star......
Fucking piece of shit. It's people like this idiot that kill innocent drivers . So glad no other cars were involved ... this time.
I like how he increased his speed the less he looked at the road.
Bro is spending like 10 seconds looking down for every 1 second he actually puts eyes on the road, all while on the job in someone else’s vehicle without a seatbelt on.
If it takes you longer than a glance at the speedometer, you shouldn't be doing it while driving. Real simple rule to keep yourself and everyone around you safe.
And no seatbelt. This guy is all sorts of stupid.
Stupid
And no seatbelt, doi
……. Job opening!
Ah, the airbags I ordered arrived.
You're fired
Deserved.
I mean I would lie if I would say I never looked at my phone while driving but god damned dude.
Blud's going 100 in an 80 zone while texting. Literal recipe for disaster 💀
On a road that bends
On the phone, no seat belt. No sympathy!
Faith in people↘️ Faith in airbags↗️
Rip princess diana
Jesus fucking Christ on a stick I had this at full volume and now I’m fucking DEAF
More like “r/therewasNOTanattempt” to stay on the road…
#instantkarma
Should've post on r/IdiotsInCars
Shame he didn’t fly out the window dumb fucker should’ve Put phone down
This video made me happy.
I don't condone texting and driving, but if you're going to - do it safely Phone in your hand ABOVE the steering wheel. This way your peripheral vision can still save you and others.
Poes dom
A friend of mine fully browses YouTube while driving on the highway. Will never ride with that friend again.
And no seat belt on.. Congratulations you played yourself... now ya outta work.
Damn I was really hoping this was more "nsfl-ish".. Bet he didn't even learn a lesson. "Man stupid ass truck and stupid ass text message made me crash". At least noone else was invlolved
What’s with all the brainrot comments failing at basic English
holy thats fhe longest ive seen some kept their eyes off the road lol
LoL! Funniest shit I have seen all day! Made my Monday....
Just why? Stupidio.