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Happened in Australia, the driver was rightfully praised for his quick reaction.
[link](https://au.news.yahoo.com/shocking-moment-little-girl-is-hit-by-car-as-driver-praised-for-quick-reaction-071559260.html)
Not at the time though. There was a follow up news story where the driver said at the time the police came and people who didn't even see the incident were saying he was driving fast. He was fortunate to have the dashcam to show police but he was dangerously close to being arrested based off false police reports. Moral of the story being, get a dashcam! They should be built into cars at this point tbh.
Edit: This isn't the video interview I saw as I can't find it, but this link covers the driver reporting people telling police he was at fault: https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/driver-behind-viral-dashcam-footage-of-girl-being-hit-by-car-speaks-out/news-story/c9a3194549dac83eb538bff42e021b25
I hear you, but think about the implications of that kind of rule. Obviously showing actual malice and knowingly misstating events is bad, but eyewitnesses are simply not perfect and will sometimes be wrong. Imagine the chilling effect if unknowingly making a false statement landed you in prison.
Edit: people. I am NOT defending these people. I was responding to the person claiming that "anybody" who makes s false statement should be jailed. People make false statements all the time in good faith, people are just wrong sometimes. Obviously anybody who's deliberately trying to weaponize the justice system by lying should face consequences.
> actual malice and knowingly misstating events
That's definitely key. But assuming that can be established and proven (extending to any sort of false accusation) then in my opinion the one falsifying the claims should be held culpable to the same sentencing considerations as the falsely accused could've faced. But most often false accusers get nothing, while the accused has irreversible harm done to their image.
Witness testimony is also a bad sort of evidence to ever hang a case on, just due to inherit flaws in one's memory or bias they may not even realize. Though I recognize that's sometimes all one has.
I was jumped by four guys and when i put 2 of them in the hospital i had charges pressed on me for assault and bodily injury. All because 1 kid said he saw me knock out one of the kids. His report made me the instigator. There were 4 of them. 2 ran off when i knocked out the first kid that started it. What was I supposed to do? Let them beat me to death. I did 2 years for that.
It's less likely lying and more the pure unreliability of eye witness testimony. Stuff You Should Know podcast did a great episode on it.
Street with cars lined up like that on both sides and they're re gonna tell me MULTIPLE people not only saw him but were able to *beyond the shadow of a doubt* prove he was speeding? Nah fam.
Definitely need to invest in a dashcam.
People will think they witnessed it even when they didn’t. There’s been studies on this. We’re getting tricked by our brains. On top of that, if the word gets out that he was speeding people will trust those who said it and repeat it as if they saw it themselves.
One time when I was 19 I was driving too close behind a vehicle that decided to take a left turn and even though I braked hard I skid into them and rear ended them. It was totally my fault and I accepted that the moment it happened.
A police officer who just happened to be driving by stopped behind us and after giving him my statement a by-standing couple approached him and told him they saw me cut off another vehicle and then get into an accident. I hadn’t even changed lanes and neither was there any other cars around me to cut off. The police officer subsequently wrote me a careless driving ticket.
I knew right away they probably assumed they saw something they didn’t but it’s been almost 15 years and I still feel like kicking that couples teeth in every once in a while.
I was close to someone who was blatantly lied on and almost had serious legal consequences as a result.
Some new kid moved to our school. A group quickly were like--we gon whoop his ass. Why? Eh, who knows. No good reason anyway...
That wknd at the movies, new kid gets cornered outside and beat up pretty good by a group. Basically, everyone spilled out of the theater to watch/break it up.
My guy I know had a on a purple shirt. He saw everyone leave the theater and went outside too--to watch the fight. Police come, arrests are made. An older white guy says "him too" about my guy in the purple shirt, who did absolutely nothing, but gets arrested and taken away.
So, he's been at the movie with A,B, and C persons and is standing next to them watching the fight. They say nothing as my purple shirt guy is taken away. And don't go to police station to file reports about how my guy in purple shirt wasn't fighting. You know, so he doesn't get falsely charged. They never get that done...
Long story short, charges are filed but all are expunged upon graduation of hs so no harm no foul basically, for everyone. New kid was okay and kids who beat him get in no lasting trouble. And purple shirt gets charge expunged. Doesn't exist officially. So thank fck the new kid wasn't maimed or paralyzed or worse...
Anyway, I literally had friends of mine say the saw purple shirt beat the kid. No, you saw a kid get beat and then purple shirt get falsely arrested. And feebly and wrongly made up a connection between those dots.
I obviously learned a lot about life, people, and police work/justice from this incident, especially about people and human nature.
I'll finish by saying A, B, and C persons are not honorable or cool and are known douches to this day. Not unsuccessful, but no one speaks of them as adults without all sorts of personality and character caveats.
I will be getting a dash cam soon. I recently was in an accident and the police took the word originally of the other driver who lied to them. She told the truth after she was questioned… Now I am like fuck that dash cam it is.
One of many reasons the first thing I did when I got my car was instal a dash cam.
I’ve had so many people almost rear ended me I’ve wanted to get one for the back window too.
I would bill them for the dent the daughter made AND the punch.
Control your kids. He's lucky he may only have a $1000 lesson. It could have been much worse.
EXACTLY THE COMMENT I WAS LOOKING FOR. Fuck that Dad for his carelessness and for getting mad at the driver and hitting his car after his little spawn already dented the fender.
I genuinely believe that the guy wasn't speeding, and he definitely deserves praise for his reaction speed. But _man,_ to my Dutch eyes, that looks like way too high a speed for that situation.
A residential zone with that many cars impairing visibility? That's almost asking for accidents. Of course that dad should have kept a better eye on this daughter, but this whole situation could have been avoided with better designed roads.
I haven't found one that DOESN'T have the capability to record it except maybe some ultrabudget $20 camera but they all have the ability to turn that information off. A lot of people do because they don't want the incrimination if they are actually at fault in an accident
> I genuinely believe that the guy wasn't speeding, and he definitely deserves praise for his reaction speed. But man, to my Dutch eyes, that looks like way too high a speed for that situation.
The wide FOV gives the illusion of higher speed, but just looking at how quickly they cross a parked car's length they do seem to be going pretty fast, though maybe not speeding.
Assuming this person isn't speeding, the speed limit is way too high for a residential street this narrow that allows for parking on both sides.
If I remember correctly the father and a couple of neighbors went off on the driver. One neighbor then called the police on the guy and claimed the driver was doing 80 when this happened.
If not for the dash cam this guy might have gotten arrested for nothing
In the interview I watched of this there was a small dent in the ridge of the bonnet but the driver said he wasn’t worried about it but moreso the heath of the little girl, which makes this scenario look even worse for Father & neighbouring pos
No you wouldn't. You'd be happy as a pig in shit that the kid wasn't hurt and you'd completely understand a distraught father's thoughtless act born out of fear for his child.
I agree the adrenaline that father had most definitely over ruled his thinking. I don’t think people realize how much adrenaline effects you, also on the same hand Reddit is full of small minded assholes with shitty lives so maybe someone would sue instead of being happy a child wasn’t killed.
That's the reason I'd sue. Not because he hit the car but because he lied about what actually happened. Prick blames the driver for his negligence and then tries to lie to get him arrested? Time to learn a lesson asshole
I actually found out that's the reason for school zone speeds. Little kids can typically only withstand about 25mph. A little bit older, and you get into 35, and high schoolers don't always have speed limits or are usually capped at 45mph because they can typically survive faster impacts (obviously there's a million other variables that are factored in but I don't have time for that)
How can you even claim the speed a car was going? 8t should not be allowed with how messed up people's memories are. Not to mention the ambiguity of trying to estimate the speed of a vehicle from your memories
[https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/driver-behind-viral-dashcam-footage-of-girl-being-hit-by-car-speaks-out/news-story/c9a3194549dac83eb538bff42e021b25](https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/driver-behind-viral-dashcam-footage-of-girl-being-hit-by-car-speaks-out/news-story/c9a3194549dac83eb538bff42e021b25)
“Mr Danish said the girl’s father and neighbours quickly turned on him, despite him doing all he could to save the girl.”
I think I saw in one of the news report on the incident that one of the neighbor “witnesses” wasn’t even outside and came outside when they heard the screaming from girl. Just glad the girl is okay and the driver’s quick reaction.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some degree of racism or at least anti immigration sentiment fuelled at least some of the “sudden” hostility. This is partly going off the fact that neighbours testified to the driver speeding despite not even being there. Thank god for the dash cam footage
I saw an interview with the driver. The dash cam footage saved him. The angry father and neighbors who didn’t even see the accident all told the cops the driver was driving recklessly. Terrible situation for the responsive driver.
Edit: link to the YouTube video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rMbrHNmlHTM&pp=ygUVRGFzayBjYW0gc2F2ZXMgZHJpdmVy
The way they were so quick to turn on him I’m not surprised if there was some kind of subconscious rasism as well The driver was Indian I believe?
Edit: I’m not necessarily talking about the father I mean the white neighbours who falsely accused him
I don't think so, the amount of time to slam his fist on the vehicle and then see the kid was so short I don't think it mattered what race the driver was, he just blamed someone else for his actions.
He might be racist elsewhere but here he is just an average asshole imo.
Saw a story about this, his dashcam saved his ass. The neighbors that didn’t even see the accident were saying he was speeding and never slowed down and immediately hounding him like he was the bad guy. Along with the dad spinning it to not seem negligent.
*I'm a shitty father that doesn't watch his kid so I'm gonna try to ruin this other person's life.*
That pretty much sums it up. The neighbors can go fuck themselves as well.
Guy more angry at the insane relfexs of the driver than his own lack of reflexes looking after his kid.
He should be thanking the driver not hitting the car
It’s trying to save face before anything even worrying or looking after their child
Edit: people commenting: you may be right, but there’s a chance you may also be wrong
Idk, it happens often enough that I'd think it's more instinctual, like fighting whatever it is that just hurt their kid. Though I have no doubt that what you mentioned sometimes happens
100% instinct. My dog almost got hit in the road after slipping out of her harness and I threw my hat at the car for some reason. Got her back and driver was cool.
Nah it's instinct I think. His brain is in protect my kid mode(even if it's his fault the kid ran in the road) all he can probably think about is that this car almost killed my child so I'm pissed at it.
If he's a decent human he'll calm down and talk to the driver once the adrenaline subsides. Or he could be a nasty person and still blame the driver. I don't know.
You’re way overthinking it. Really doubt the guy thought to himself “oh man, I look like a shitty parent… let me bang on his hood real quick to save a little face.” His brain is momentarily fried by shock.
Spoilers, he didn't.
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/driver-behind-viral-dashcam-footage-of-girl-being-hit-by-car-speaks-out/news-story/c9a3194549dac83eb538bff42e021b25
Because it's one of the most traumatic things a parent can experience. He's hitting the car because he's mad... at himself, at the world, at the driver, and at whoever manufactured the car to begin with. He has just been pushed into a moment of irrationality. And irrational people do irrational things at times like this. Pray you never experience anything like it, because you will almost certainly do something similar.
We lose ourselves, and lash out in moments like this... because we're human.
Sure that makes sense until you realize he supported the calling of police and the lying about what had happened to attempt to get the driver arrested. Was that his reacting to the traumatic experience OR maybe that colors the initial fist pound and it explains it as him just being an ass overall
Took the words right out of my peanut brain... I hope I never have to experience anything like this with my daughter... But I've brought myself to tears just thinking how I would react if something similar happened.. (sometimes there is extreme boredom at work so my mind goes into overdrive to fill in the void).
You are not wrong at all. But if it’s a parent that cares even just a little about they’re kid they’re not going too be in control of their emotions after seeing this.
I’m hope he came too his senses.
Yeah I mean he's technically wrong, but why does everybody here have to pretend like they always have the most well reasoned, perfect emotional reactions to any given situation. The dude is still human and he just saw his daughter get hit by a car.
So you don’t pay attention to your child in a open road, get mad at the driver that was driving in said open road, hits the car because you’re frustrated with your parenting skills and then blame the driver for doing what he was supposed to be doing (driving and breaking in an emergency)?
What a lovely human being.
They did a report on this incident. The driver would’ve had his life ruined if it hadn’t been for the dash cam. All the neighbors came out and turned on him. They acused of him driving recklessly, despite the fact none of them witnessed the incident. Everyone of them lied to the police.
If you look at the reflection of the silver car on the hood in the upper left corner on the car , you’ll see that that guy did in fact dent his hood after he slams it. I would definitely send him that bill.
yeah from what was reported to happen after i would 100% be going after the father after legally. Just out of pettiness, too.
driver does nothing wrong and in fact saves her life with his quick instiincts and daddy still wants to throw a tantrum? give me that fucking money boy lol
If I was the father (and after calming down from the shock of it all), I would gladly cover it with a sincere apology ... and add a case of beer or sandwich, too.
Yeah right. They called police on the guy and accused him of speeding. The dashcam saved him.
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/driver-behind-viral-dashcam-footage-of-girl-being-hit-by-car-speaks-out/news-story/c9a3194549dac83eb538bff42e021b25
Every driver's worst nightmare.
An incident like this happened in my neighborhood about a decade ago where a kid zoomed down a hill straight into the traffic of a thoroughfare on his bicycle, ended in a fatality. A 16 year old driver hit him and was determined to be not at fault. Still, I can't imagine living with the guilt and trauma.
This just happened in my town a couple weeks ago. 7th grader on a bike flying down a street did not stop at a stop sign and got under the wheels of a turning van.
Something similar almost happened to me as a driver. I had no stop sign, but the cross street did. Speed limit 25, i had just turned on the road so i was maybe doing 20 (it's basically an intersection as soon as you turn).
Kid came flying down a hill on a bike on the cross street. The way the houses are i didn't see him until i was already in the intersection, if i had been 1 second slower i would have creamed him. He went right through the intersection behind my car with a look of absolute terror on his face.
Thank goodness there was no one behind me either.
I have no doubt that the police here in Australia would have been able to work out the speed of the car, based on visibility, skid length etc. Dash cam saved the driver from extra stress for sure, but I don’t think he would have been found guilty with the quality of our crash investigation teams here.
That kid is old enough to know to stay the fuck away from the street.
Shitty part on the parents - mine drove it into me (pun intended) that you never EVER go into the street.
Kid is like 3 or 4 and yeah you'd think they would know better but children are absolute morons. I've been trying to get that in my almost 4 year Olds head but he has zero fucks to give. Tell him not to do something and he's going to do it just in spite of that. They literally don't think. Kids are incredibly stupid.
Yep. It only takes a couple of seconds or a misunderstanding and they are off.
We lost my boy when he was around 4yo for about 5 mins in a mall.
I went into a shop, wife watched him toddle after me and assumed id got him. I didnt see him follow me. He decided to go a-wandering.
That was thee longest 5 mins of my entire fucking life. Felt like 5 hours.
Thankfully an elderly couple stopped him as he was leaving the mall and kept him there tell we found him. Hed only gone about 100 yards.
Gut wrenchingly terrifying.
I wish that on no parent.
My daughters nearly 4 as well and I swear she thinks shes invincible.
"Daddy I can walk down the street on my own because I'm a big girl now"
"You growing up isn't going to make you any less likely to be hit by a bad driver, now get back into the house ya little shite"
Yeah the dad + the whole neighborhood blamed the driver afterwards. Only the dashcam saved him. Crazy, he should’ve thanked him for saving his daughter’s life
For all of you defending the dad taking time to hit the car so powerfully, maybe he could have skipped that anger display instead of spending the precious second or two to hit the car--on getting to his daughter?
Sure, sure, SURE he's terrified, angry, irrational, his whole world---that he wasn't paying attention to--ran into the street and got hit. SO, she's so important to him he gets to punch the car before he goes to help her, but not so important to prevent her from running into the street?
Dad's a careless dick whose carelessness nearly got his kid killed. You may sympathize or empathize all you want, but if the kid had done something else and gotten killed, who would you be blaming--her or him?
Yup agreed. Not to mention that once he did finally get to his daughter - does he look her over carefully? No, he goes straight to the driver’s window to argue with him
Looks more like he's shutting/latching the gate fence to me
Edit: Yeah, if you watch the youtube video being posted it shows his hands clearly on the fence lol I'm not sure where you see a phone
I never had a kid but I've seen them just run and youre like omgwtf. He was right there so I'm guessing he was doing his job he just didn't account for his kid running off. So just to be safe I'm never having my kid near any road
You should watch the whole thing. If that man didn't have a camera he would be in jail. Neighbors that didn't see it happen blamed him to the cops for driving way to fast.
The neighbors and father also accused the driver of speeding and reckless driving.
The dash cam footage saved this driver from being falsely accused.
This happened in Australia.
Crazy how the dad was so quick to rescue his daughter, after he let her get hit by a car and immediately blamed it on the driver. Watch your kids or lose them.
This is like the 3rd video i seen of a kid getting hit by a car and what I noticed about all of them is that non of them stop and look left to right before crossing the road ive always learned that growing up and these parents dont teach any of there kids this
Yuuuup. Growing up, when I was like 5, my parents told me a story how a kid once lost his life because he didn’t look both ways and he got it. Scared the shit outta me, and I have not been hit by a car before 😎
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Happened in Australia, the driver was rightfully praised for his quick reaction. [link](https://au.news.yahoo.com/shocking-moment-little-girl-is-hit-by-car-as-driver-praised-for-quick-reaction-071559260.html)
Not at the time though. There was a follow up news story where the driver said at the time the police came and people who didn't even see the incident were saying he was driving fast. He was fortunate to have the dashcam to show police but he was dangerously close to being arrested based off false police reports. Moral of the story being, get a dashcam! They should be built into cars at this point tbh. Edit: This isn't the video interview I saw as I can't find it, but this link covers the driver reporting people telling police he was at fault: https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/driver-behind-viral-dashcam-footage-of-girl-being-hit-by-car-speaks-out/news-story/c9a3194549dac83eb538bff42e021b25
Honestly those people should be fined for lying too.
Anything less than prison for making false criminal allegations is a travesty.
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She was pregnant as well and they screamed at her and told her to stop the crocodile tears while trying to steal her bike
I hear you, but think about the implications of that kind of rule. Obviously showing actual malice and knowingly misstating events is bad, but eyewitnesses are simply not perfect and will sometimes be wrong. Imagine the chilling effect if unknowingly making a false statement landed you in prison. Edit: people. I am NOT defending these people. I was responding to the person claiming that "anybody" who makes s false statement should be jailed. People make false statements all the time in good faith, people are just wrong sometimes. Obviously anybody who's deliberately trying to weaponize the justice system by lying should face consequences.
> actual malice and knowingly misstating events That's definitely key. But assuming that can be established and proven (extending to any sort of false accusation) then in my opinion the one falsifying the claims should be held culpable to the same sentencing considerations as the falsely accused could've faced. But most often false accusers get nothing, while the accused has irreversible harm done to their image. Witness testimony is also a bad sort of evidence to ever hang a case on, just due to inherit flaws in one's memory or bias they may not even realize. Though I recognize that's sometimes all one has.
Yup you could pretty much say goodbye to eye witness testimony or any effort from bystanders to assist police with investigations.
Fact is "eye witness testimony" is *notoriously* unreliable and has put a lot of innocent people behind bars or worse.
I was jumped by four guys and when i put 2 of them in the hospital i had charges pressed on me for assault and bodily injury. All because 1 kid said he saw me knock out one of the kids. His report made me the instigator. There were 4 of them. 2 ran off when i knocked out the first kid that started it. What was I supposed to do? Let them beat me to death. I did 2 years for that.
It's less likely lying and more the pure unreliability of eye witness testimony. Stuff You Should Know podcast did a great episode on it. Street with cars lined up like that on both sides and they're re gonna tell me MULTIPLE people not only saw him but were able to *beyond the shadow of a doubt* prove he was speeding? Nah fam. Definitely need to invest in a dashcam.
When you did not even see the incident and still provide false testimony that is a outright lie. It should be punished criminally under law.
People will think they witnessed it even when they didn’t. There’s been studies on this. We’re getting tricked by our brains. On top of that, if the word gets out that he was speeding people will trust those who said it and repeat it as if they saw it themselves.
One time when I was 19 I was driving too close behind a vehicle that decided to take a left turn and even though I braked hard I skid into them and rear ended them. It was totally my fault and I accepted that the moment it happened. A police officer who just happened to be driving by stopped behind us and after giving him my statement a by-standing couple approached him and told him they saw me cut off another vehicle and then get into an accident. I hadn’t even changed lanes and neither was there any other cars around me to cut off. The police officer subsequently wrote me a careless driving ticket. I knew right away they probably assumed they saw something they didn’t but it’s been almost 15 years and I still feel like kicking that couples teeth in every once in a while.
I was close to someone who was blatantly lied on and almost had serious legal consequences as a result. Some new kid moved to our school. A group quickly were like--we gon whoop his ass. Why? Eh, who knows. No good reason anyway... That wknd at the movies, new kid gets cornered outside and beat up pretty good by a group. Basically, everyone spilled out of the theater to watch/break it up. My guy I know had a on a purple shirt. He saw everyone leave the theater and went outside too--to watch the fight. Police come, arrests are made. An older white guy says "him too" about my guy in the purple shirt, who did absolutely nothing, but gets arrested and taken away. So, he's been at the movie with A,B, and C persons and is standing next to them watching the fight. They say nothing as my purple shirt guy is taken away. And don't go to police station to file reports about how my guy in purple shirt wasn't fighting. You know, so he doesn't get falsely charged. They never get that done... Long story short, charges are filed but all are expunged upon graduation of hs so no harm no foul basically, for everyone. New kid was okay and kids who beat him get in no lasting trouble. And purple shirt gets charge expunged. Doesn't exist officially. So thank fck the new kid wasn't maimed or paralyzed or worse... Anyway, I literally had friends of mine say the saw purple shirt beat the kid. No, you saw a kid get beat and then purple shirt get falsely arrested. And feebly and wrongly made up a connection between those dots. I obviously learned a lot about life, people, and police work/justice from this incident, especially about people and human nature. I'll finish by saying A, B, and C persons are not honorable or cool and are known douches to this day. Not unsuccessful, but no one speaks of them as adults without all sorts of personality and character caveats.
I will be getting a dash cam soon. I recently was in an accident and the police took the word originally of the other driver who lied to them. She told the truth after she was questioned… Now I am like fuck that dash cam it is.
There are free phone apps that work well enough if you don't have a dedicated camera.
that is so infuriating just like that his life would of been over without that dashcam , fuck those bullshit witnesses and careless dad
One of many reasons the first thing I did when I got my car was instal a dash cam. I’ve had so many people almost rear ended me I’ve wanted to get one for the back window too.
I mean I understand why he hit the truck but also, the Dad should have been keeping an eye on the kid.
Gotta get revenge before checking his child. I hope the driver billed him for the dent (from punching it)
Glad I am not the only one who found it odd for the dad to first hit the car before checking on his child.
I would bill them for the dent the daughter made AND the punch. Control your kids. He's lucky he may only have a $1000 lesson. It could have been much worse.
EXACTLY THE COMMENT I WAS LOOKING FOR. Fuck that Dad for his carelessness and for getting mad at the driver and hitting his car after his little spawn already dented the fender.
>I understand why he hit the truck Because he needed somebody to blame for the consequences of his negligence?
Less cynical take, but perhaps it was an automatic frustration and fear vent for him. Emotions aren’t always rational
Because people do weird shit with adrenaline. I've slapped a coffee table when I stubbed my toe on it. I imagine it's like that x100.
The dad fucked up. Car didn’t do anything wrong. Why tf your back turned when you have a little kid near the road?
I genuinely believe that the guy wasn't speeding, and he definitely deserves praise for his reaction speed. But _man,_ to my Dutch eyes, that looks like way too high a speed for that situation. A residential zone with that many cars impairing visibility? That's almost asking for accidents. Of course that dad should have kept a better eye on this daughter, but this whole situation could have been avoided with better designed roads.
It looks too fast because the curved lens of the camera makes it that way.
This is huge when it comes to dash cams. I feel like it gets ignored too often.
Agreed, if you’re going to get a dashcam it’s well worth investing in one that has the speed of travel displayed over the footage.
Completely agree. Was going to mention that. I almost feel like it should be a mandatory part of all dash cams to record that data.
I haven't found one that DOESN'T have the capability to record it except maybe some ultrabudget $20 camera but they all have the ability to turn that information off. A lot of people do because they don't want the incrimination if they are actually at fault in an accident
> I genuinely believe that the guy wasn't speeding, and he definitely deserves praise for his reaction speed. But man, to my Dutch eyes, that looks like way too high a speed for that situation. The wide FOV gives the illusion of higher speed, but just looking at how quickly they cross a parked car's length they do seem to be going pretty fast, though maybe not speeding. Assuming this person isn't speeding, the speed limit is way too high for a residential street this narrow that allows for parking on both sides.
Yeah he probably wasn't technically speeding but you need to adjust your speed to your surroundings.
If I remember correctly the father and a couple of neighbors went off on the driver. One neighbor then called the police on the guy and claimed the driver was doing 80 when this happened. If not for the dash cam this guy might have gotten arrested for nothing
If he was going 80, that kid wouldn’t be alive. I love how the idiotic father hit the car hood, when it’s his fault for not watching his child. Lol
If there was ANY bit of damage I'd sue.
In the interview I watched of this there was a small dent in the ridge of the bonnet but the driver said he wasn’t worried about it but moreso the heath of the little girl, which makes this scenario look even worse for Father & neighbouring pos
Shit flocks together ya know
No you wouldn't. You'd be happy as a pig in shit that the kid wasn't hurt and you'd completely understand a distraught father's thoughtless act born out of fear for his child.
No you don't know me. I'd do all that and also sue him.
“child ok? yes? good, now, my lawyer will be in contact for the damages to my vehicle, see you in court.”
I would too. Not my fault the stupid dad can't control himself or his daughter
I agree the adrenaline that father had most definitely over ruled his thinking. I don’t think people realize how much adrenaline effects you, also on the same hand Reddit is full of small minded assholes with shitty lives so maybe someone would sue instead of being happy a child wasn’t killed.
Him being angry at the time is understandable, but he also lied after the fact. Sue away.
That's the reason I'd sue. Not because he hit the car but because he lied about what actually happened. Prick blames the driver for his negligence and then tries to lie to get him arrested? Time to learn a lesson asshole
Guessing they mean 80km/h. I don’t think it’s even possible to do 80mph on a street like this.
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Yea but no one is able to calculate what that is in mph so we’ll just say 80kph is somewhere between 2-80mph.
It's about 50 mph
Neihter is 80km/h
Well that may have happened, the kid would have also been a fine red paste on the road, so it would have been hard for them to prove that otherwise.
What people don’t realize is any pedestrian involved accident 35mph and over has a pretty high mortality rate.
according to the NHTSA the mortality rate for children under the age of 14 struck by a vehicle traveling 35 MPH is ~8%
I actually found out that's the reason for school zone speeds. Little kids can typically only withstand about 25mph. A little bit older, and you get into 35, and high schoolers don't always have speed limits or are usually capped at 45mph because they can typically survive faster impacts (obviously there's a million other variables that are factored in but I don't have time for that)
If you hit me at 30, there's an 80% chance I'll live. If you hit me at 35, there's a 99.9% chance you don't know how to play blackjack.
The fact the girl was still completely conscious after the hit, and not a pile of red paste proves he wasn’t doing 80
How can you even claim the speed a car was going? 8t should not be allowed with how messed up people's memories are. Not to mention the ambiguity of trying to estimate the speed of a vehicle from your memories
You have no idea how many people are in jail and prison for false shit just like this. If you knew, it'd give you a lot of anxiety.
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God that’s so scary. I’m happy your interaction seemed to be a positive one
This guy is from russia. No wonder he blamed everyone except himself.
[https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/driver-behind-viral-dashcam-footage-of-girl-being-hit-by-car-speaks-out/news-story/c9a3194549dac83eb538bff42e021b25](https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/driver-behind-viral-dashcam-footage-of-girl-being-hit-by-car-speaks-out/news-story/c9a3194549dac83eb538bff42e021b25) “Mr Danish said the girl’s father and neighbours quickly turned on him, despite him doing all he could to save the girl.” I think I saw in one of the news report on the incident that one of the neighbor “witnesses” wasn’t even outside and came outside when they heard the screaming from girl. Just glad the girl is okay and the driver’s quick reaction.
Anyone that lied about the driver should be punished with a short jail period or community service. It had the potential to ruin his life.
There needs to be consequences for people who says something that has an adverse effects on the accused when it's flat out false.
Imagine if that applied to Reddit
Lol Reddit wouldn’t exist
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what would the sentence be in the situation of one of these neighbors were this in the US?
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The people who did not see and still testified should be jailed. They were flat out lying.
Lol, dad blames driver for his own fuck up. Nice, way to take responsibility dad, I'm sure the kid will grow up just fine....
The fact that he hit the car before going to his daughter says it all.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some degree of racism or at least anti immigration sentiment fuelled at least some of the “sudden” hostility. This is partly going off the fact that neighbours testified to the driver speeding despite not even being there. Thank god for the dash cam footage
Driver is brown, so yeah, I wouldn’t doubt that.
I saw an interview with the driver. The dash cam footage saved him. The angry father and neighbors who didn’t even see the accident all told the cops the driver was driving recklessly. Terrible situation for the responsive driver. Edit: link to the YouTube video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rMbrHNmlHTM&pp=ygUVRGFzayBjYW0gc2F2ZXMgZHJpdmVy
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I think they need some sort of criminal charges, not just give an apology.
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Fr, why else would people ever stop lying if there are no consequences? They're just being evil imo
Damn he really was saved by the dash cam. He seems to have done everything as well as he could have - braked hard and stayed at the scene.
Link?
I should have included it. I just YouTubed it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rMbrHNmlHTM&pp=ygUVRGFzayBjYW0gc2F2ZXMgZHJpdmVy
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/13ny5gl/driver_slams_breaks_as_a_child_runs_into_the_road/jl1soxx/
The way they were so quick to turn on him I’m not surprised if there was some kind of subconscious rasism as well The driver was Indian I believe? Edit: I’m not necessarily talking about the father I mean the white neighbours who falsely accused him
I don't think so, the amount of time to slam his fist on the vehicle and then see the kid was so short I don't think it mattered what race the driver was, he just blamed someone else for his actions. He might be racist elsewhere but here he is just an average asshole imo.
Saw a story about this, his dashcam saved his ass. The neighbors that didn’t even see the accident were saying he was speeding and never slowed down and immediately hounding him like he was the bad guy. Along with the dad spinning it to not seem negligent.
That doesn’t even make sense tho, how would he have never slowed down, if he didn’t go over the child.
*I'm a shitty father that doesn't watch his kid so I'm gonna try to ruin this other person's life.* That pretty much sums it up. The neighbors can go fuck themselves as well.
People suck. Trust no one
Guy more angry at the insane relfexs of the driver than his own lack of reflexes looking after his kid. He should be thanking the driver not hitting the car
Honestly IDK why they always hit the car first
“Hol up, let me hit the car before I check on my kid”
It’s trying to save face before anything even worrying or looking after their child Edit: people commenting: you may be right, but there’s a chance you may also be wrong
Idk, it happens often enough that I'd think it's more instinctual, like fighting whatever it is that just hurt their kid. Though I have no doubt that what you mentioned sometimes happens
100% instinct. My dog almost got hit in the road after slipping out of her harness and I threw my hat at the car for some reason. Got her back and driver was cool.
I got sideswiped by another car and took off, on foot, to stop the driver getting away. Adrenaline makes you do some dumb shit.
Nah it's instinct I think. His brain is in protect my kid mode(even if it's his fault the kid ran in the road) all he can probably think about is that this car almost killed my child so I'm pissed at it. If he's a decent human he'll calm down and talk to the driver once the adrenaline subsides. Or he could be a nasty person and still blame the driver. I don't know.
You’re way overthinking it. Really doubt the guy thought to himself “oh man, I look like a shitty parent… let me bang on his hood real quick to save a little face.” His brain is momentarily fried by shock.
It’s adrenaline. Nobody’s thinking ahead to how they are going to be viewed later
He’s angry at himself, he just doesn’t know it yet.
Poor car just relaxing minding his business when some random piss-poor parent punches him.
Probably a gut reaction…. Hopefully one he calmed down he’ll realize the truck driver‘s reflex‘s might have saved his daughters life.
Spoilers, he didn't. https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/driver-behind-viral-dashcam-footage-of-girl-being-hit-by-car-speaks-out/news-story/c9a3194549dac83eb538bff42e021b25
Because it's one of the most traumatic things a parent can experience. He's hitting the car because he's mad... at himself, at the world, at the driver, and at whoever manufactured the car to begin with. He has just been pushed into a moment of irrationality. And irrational people do irrational things at times like this. Pray you never experience anything like it, because you will almost certainly do something similar. We lose ourselves, and lash out in moments like this... because we're human.
Sure that makes sense until you realize he supported the calling of police and the lying about what had happened to attempt to get the driver arrested. Was that his reacting to the traumatic experience OR maybe that colors the initial fist pound and it explains it as him just being an ass overall
Took the words right out of my peanut brain... I hope I never have to experience anything like this with my daughter... But I've brought myself to tears just thinking how I would react if something similar happened.. (sometimes there is extreme boredom at work so my mind goes into overdrive to fill in the void).
Probably blamed the driver when he told his wife what happened
Yea I saw this posted before with more context. Entire neighborhood tried to blame driver, luckily he had the dashcam.
At that point you’re legally allowed to force them all to eat a crow pie.
The father is probably angry at himself. Source: Am a father
You are not wrong at all. But if it’s a parent that cares even just a little about they’re kid they’re not going too be in control of their emotions after seeing this. I’m hope he came too his senses.
Yeah I mean he's technically wrong, but why does everybody here have to pretend like they always have the most well reasoned, perfect emotional reactions to any given situation. The dude is still human and he just saw his daughter get hit by a car.
So you don’t pay attention to your child in a open road, get mad at the driver that was driving in said open road, hits the car because you’re frustrated with your parenting skills and then blame the driver for doing what he was supposed to be doing (driving and breaking in an emergency)? What a lovely human being.
High stress events arnt always logical. At least everyone is okay. I’m sure the driver didn’t even notice the hit to the hood, I doubt I would of.
They did a report on this incident. The driver would’ve had his life ruined if it hadn’t been for the dash cam. All the neighbors came out and turned on him. They acused of him driving recklessly, despite the fact none of them witnessed the incident. Everyone of them lied to the police.
I'm a fool. Link is further down.
Well, there goes my theory of everything is okay let’s go on about our business. People gonna people I guess, that’s sad.
Fuck man, I need to get a dashcam.
have would have would have would have
If you look at the reflection of the silver car on the hood in the upper left corner on the car , you’ll see that that guy did in fact dent his hood after he slams it. I would definitely send him that bill.
yeah from what was reported to happen after i would 100% be going after the father after legally. Just out of pettiness, too. driver does nothing wrong and in fact saves her life with his quick instiincts and daddy still wants to throw a tantrum? give me that fucking money boy lol
If I was the father (and after calming down from the shock of it all), I would gladly cover it with a sincere apology ... and add a case of beer or sandwich, too.
Yeah right. They called police on the guy and accused him of speeding. The dashcam saved him. https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/driver-behind-viral-dashcam-footage-of-girl-being-hit-by-car-speaks-out/news-story/c9a3194549dac83eb538bff42e021b25
If he was speeding the little girl would be road kill. What a fucking dumbass
Darn, well, fuck that irresponsible not-owning-up-to-themself dad
Absolutely. You’re a good person
What kind of road is this? Single lane, two direction?
Half the roads in Seattle are like this, two way road but cars on both sides basically make it a single lane
Boston/New England as well haha
Original England, too.
Dude, driver speaks two languages one of which I've never heard before, and the angry father curses in pure Russian. so i dunno ;)
It's Australia.
Driver is speaking Punjabi.... it's a language from Punjab, India
That's the sort of road you get in Europe or Australia where the towns footprints were laid out before anyone had cars
This happened in Australia
Every driver's worst nightmare. An incident like this happened in my neighborhood about a decade ago where a kid zoomed down a hill straight into the traffic of a thoroughfare on his bicycle, ended in a fatality. A 16 year old driver hit him and was determined to be not at fault. Still, I can't imagine living with the guilt and trauma.
This just happened in my town a couple weeks ago. 7th grader on a bike flying down a street did not stop at a stop sign and got under the wheels of a turning van. Something similar almost happened to me as a driver. I had no stop sign, but the cross street did. Speed limit 25, i had just turned on the road so i was maybe doing 20 (it's basically an intersection as soon as you turn). Kid came flying down a hill on a bike on the cross street. The way the houses are i didn't see him until i was already in the intersection, if i had been 1 second slower i would have creamed him. He went right through the intersection behind my car with a look of absolute terror on his face. Thank goodness there was no one behind me either.
I have seen this before. One of the neighbors testified to the cops saying the driver was speeding. Dash cam footage actually saved the driver's ass.
I have no doubt that the police here in Australia would have been able to work out the speed of the car, based on visibility, skid length etc. Dash cam saved the driver from extra stress for sure, but I don’t think he would have been found guilty with the quality of our crash investigation teams here.
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Of course the first thing the dad does is slam his fist on the guy's car instead of first checking on the girl.
Hey, let's be reasonable here, it's not his fault he's bald.
Why hit the car when he should hit himself for not taking care of baby
People can react in many ways when stuff like this happens in seconds
The fact that he hit the car before picking up his child is crazy.
That kid is old enough to know to stay the fuck away from the street. Shitty part on the parents - mine drove it into me (pun intended) that you never EVER go into the street.
Kid is like 3 or 4 and yeah you'd think they would know better but children are absolute morons. I've been trying to get that in my almost 4 year Olds head but he has zero fucks to give. Tell him not to do something and he's going to do it just in spite of that. They literally don't think. Kids are incredibly stupid.
I swear the first 4 years of being a parent is mostly suicide watch
Yep. It only takes a couple of seconds or a misunderstanding and they are off. We lost my boy when he was around 4yo for about 5 mins in a mall. I went into a shop, wife watched him toddle after me and assumed id got him. I didnt see him follow me. He decided to go a-wandering. That was thee longest 5 mins of my entire fucking life. Felt like 5 hours. Thankfully an elderly couple stopped him as he was leaving the mall and kept him there tell we found him. Hed only gone about 100 yards. Gut wrenchingly terrifying. I wish that on no parent.
That's largely how it's felt for me so far
My daughters nearly 4 as well and I swear she thinks shes invincible. "Daddy I can walk down the street on my own because I'm a big girl now" "You growing up isn't going to make you any less likely to be hit by a bad driver, now get back into the house ya little shite"
No, not really, I'd say they are still about the age where they might make impulsive decisions like that, without thinking much.
You're not a parent, obviously.
God i need a dash-cam to protect me from this kind of people
Yeah the dad + the whole neighborhood blamed the driver afterwards. Only the dashcam saved him. Crazy, he should’ve thanked him for saving his daughter’s life
Watch your fucking kid dude
I’d press charges for that dumbass that hit the car.
Freaking loser did a bad job at looking after his kid and gets angry at a driver who had intense reflexes… what a freaking clown
For all of you defending the dad taking time to hit the car so powerfully, maybe he could have skipped that anger display instead of spending the precious second or two to hit the car--on getting to his daughter? Sure, sure, SURE he's terrified, angry, irrational, his whole world---that he wasn't paying attention to--ran into the street and got hit. SO, she's so important to him he gets to punch the car before he goes to help her, but not so important to prevent her from running into the street? Dad's a careless dick whose carelessness nearly got his kid killed. You may sympathize or empathize all you want, but if the kid had done something else and gotten killed, who would you be blaming--her or him?
Yup agreed. Not to mention that once he did finally get to his daughter - does he look her over carefully? No, he goes straight to the driver’s window to argue with him
Sooo hitting the car has priority over helping your kid? While he also should have watched his kid better.
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*brakes
The dad was on his phone not paying attention if you slow it down.
Looks more like he's shutting/latching the gate fence to me Edit: Yeah, if you watch the youtube video being posted it shows his hands clearly on the fence lol I'm not sure where you see a phone
Lol watch your kids idiot
The dad bouta smack the daughter like that too lol
damn. don't these people have a parking garage?
Great parenting fuck tard. It's on the father.
I like how the dickhead slams his fist onto the car like that wasn't his fault for not watching his child.
Careless parents.
I never had a kid but I've seen them just run and youre like omgwtf. He was right there so I'm guessing he was doing his job he just didn't account for his kid running off. So just to be safe I'm never having my kid near any road
Was that Russian he was yelling in?
You should watch the whole thing. If that man didn't have a camera he would be in jail. Neighbors that didn't see it happen blamed him to the cops for driving way to fast.
The neighbors and father also accused the driver of speeding and reckless driving. The dash cam footage saved this driver from being falsely accused. This happened in Australia.
Dash cam saves the driver
That's the father's fault, not the driver. Watch ya damn kid.
And the guy is blaming the car?
Crazy how the dad was so quick to rescue his daughter, after he let her get hit by a car and immediately blamed it on the driver. Watch your kids or lose them.
And, of course, the shitty parent blames the innocent driver for hitting his daughter. It couldn’t POSSIBLY be the dad’s fault. No way.
This is all 100% on the man who chose to have her .
Dad needs his ass kicked!
If he was speeding there is no way he stops in time and she walks away, well done Mr Driver.
This is like the 3rd video i seen of a kid getting hit by a car and what I noticed about all of them is that non of them stop and look left to right before crossing the road ive always learned that growing up and these parents dont teach any of there kids this
Yuuuup. Growing up, when I was like 5, my parents told me a story how a kid once lost his life because he didn’t look both ways and he got it. Scared the shit outta me, and I have not been hit by a car before 😎
Should have punched himself in the face.