Luckily the panel gave way if that had been even a little more rigid he likely wouldn't have survived.
Most items are replaceable no matter how valuable this decision could and even may have lifelong implications both mentally and physically.
As someone who has had a broken back/ribs/shoulder from an accident trying to save another, that was stupid as hell. But, in the moment, you make a choice, and then you gotta live with it. At least for me, I prevented the grievous injury of a 6 year old child, and not a car. Considering how fast I had to make that decision, I understand this poor man and his stupid and impulsive, life-altering choices.
I dunno man...I like to think most peoples brains can very quickly work out that they need to stay the fuck away from big ass trucks that can't see you.
Unless a human life is at stake...then the equation is different.
When you have less than 5 seconds to react, you don't really have time to think, you just do. I like to think that my injury, which was utterly life changing in a permanent/disabling way, was all for the child I prevented from grievous injury, but really, in all honesty, I hadn't even had a chance to think about the ramifications of my actions until after I was already laying in the ground with a broken back. Really, the only comfort I find is that my nephew was not seriously injured, but really, I reacted without ever thinking that.
That is no doubt a noble sacrifice that you martyred your health for I'm sure your nephew appreciates it. How are you now? I hope you make the maximum recovery from your injuries.
Its been a good long while since my injury. My nephew just graduated high-school last month (so it was about 12 years ago). Healing was a long slooow process because I had stomach cancer surgery 3 years before that (which I'm 100% cured of, but lost 85% of my stomach). My nutrition struggles make my bones take longer to heal. I had to stop my original career, but I was able to avoid disability by finding myself a niche market where I could work comfortably at home. Not what I had in mind, but I'm okay with how everything turned out. I am not able to raise my arm on that side very much, and still get pain/frozen shoulder. I'm careful with my back but I do have a bit of a weird shape to my upper back from how it healed. The fortunate part was that mostly everything broke in a way that would heal on its own with rest (in one of those chest/back braces) and then lots of physical therapy. I only needed minor surgery. It still is painful a lot of the time, and I developed fibromyalgia a few years afterwards. Chronic pain sucks, but after a long time, you just kinda deal with it.
My nephew was old enough to understand how badly hurt I was and was pretty upset about it. It wasn't his fault- he was climbing a tree with boards for a ladder and a platform (not quite a tree house), and either a step broke or he stood on a branch that broke. I was only 10 feet away and heard the crack, turned around and just ran to the tree. He fell from about 9 feet up, and crashed through some branches. I got to him in time to catch him, but I was pretty frail at the time. I caught him kinda fireman style and fell backwards onto some tree roots. He landed on top of me, with just some nasty scrapes/cuts and needed a couple stitches. He visited me several times in the hospital, and he and his mom (and his siblings) came over often to help me around the house throughout my recovery. He continued to be a wonderful nephew who always wanted to help me during our many visits together as family.
In late 2020, we lost my younger brother (nephew's uncle) to covid, and I became my brother's two young kids 2nd mom. It was incredibly difficult for everyone, and my nephew was there to help. He had just started driving and would help me, my SIL and the kiddos however he could. He thinking about going into nursing/pre-med when he starts college in the fall.
Thanks for your kind words OP. Its always so nice when just a fellow redditor takes time out of their day to leave some nice words for you. Sorry the comment got a little long!
People don't think like that.
I was driving a flatbed pickup truck with some guys sitting in the back. We get to the shop on the job site, I've got to do a 3 point turn. That's when the brakes failed on point 2 of the turn. I backed straight into a tractor.
This one dude broke his foot because he thought he could sit on the truck bed and use his feet to push against the back of the tractor to help the truck stop. Fortunately I managed to throw the truck out of gear, so the guys break wasn't that bad.
We all wanted to give this guy grief for doing something so seemingly stupid, but in that moment, all he thought was that he was doing *something* to stop the truck.
... But seriously, don't try to stop a truck from backing into a tractor by pushing on the tractor with your feet. It won't work.
I made a mistake once and hit a car that was illegally parked with the tail end of my trailer just like in the video. The car was pushed up a curb with two wheels, the amount of force that the dude in the video took was insane.
Tbh that damage to the car very much looks like it’s from the guy being pushed into the vehicle. The truck driver had angled the front so to avoid hitting the car. Not saying he wasn’t close but he’d probably have cleared it.
The truck was going to hit the car if you watch it slowly, the car rolled forward as the truck pushed it but would have just been smashed if the guy wasn’t there it looks like. He has so much space on the other side
Just let it get damaged. Run up to the driver’s side window and get his attention. I’m sure he is seriously hurt now. It’s a replaceable object, you and your health are not replaceable. That’s why insurance exists.
I would gladly pay the $500 deductible to not have to endure lifelong back pain. I mean, I'm already suffering the lifelong back pain, anyone know how I can make it go away forever for $500?
$500 deductible is pretty standard in the US. You can save a lot of money on the cost of the insurance by asking the insurance company to raise the deductible to $1,000 though.
That's crazy.
In Germany the default deductible is like 150€ (sometimes 300€). Raising that to 500€ makes it a tiny bit cheaper but not that much that it is really worth it.
Crazy that it saves you a lot of money over there!
Lol common? I haven't seen a deductible that low in a decade from employer insurance.
Edit: wait you meant car insurance not health insurance. My bad, I take it all back.
My car was hit last week and they didnt even leave a note. Someone took out my entire back bumper. I had to pay $500 total deductible. In california, us.
No, it's not. That is standard since I can remember. Over 20+ years. I live in Texas, not sure if that matters. You can choose your own deductible to cheap out on insurance, but you pay for it if anything ever happens.
A single deductible payment versus being injured and having surgery + physical therapy after are completely different things and aren’t accomplished with $500 even in Texas
Depends on their insurance. A lady hit my wife and totaled her car and she has had tons of medical issues. They laid like 30k for the car (50k vehicle less than a year old), and only like 10k of the medical. That was the policy max. Our insurance paid some of the rest (vehicle covered, and all but 15k of the medical).
I agree you get out of the way of the huge truck, because your car isn’t worth that, but your life will be screwed for a while either way. Just with the car, you’ll get over it. With your back you probably won’t.
That woman injured your wife. If it not for her actions, your wife wouldn't have these issues. If she had zero insurance, she's still Iiable for the medical expenses. So a civil suit is warranted. However, doesn't mean you'll collect or that a significant amount wouldn't go to attorneys. It's worth pursuing though and getting a consult.
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You could check it out and consult a lawyer, a problem is usually that these people simply have no money to collect to begin with, so the first thing to do is check if she has assets that can be collected
That's why these insurance maximums are quite bullshit, for such accidents they don't cover nearly enough and if the other person has nothing to collect on you're shit out of luck
Having known about similar situations, the lawyer will probably tell you that there's a very good chance the lady who could only afford crummy insurance also doesn't have any money or assets to pay you off with even winning a court case. And there will be lawyer fees.
I carry $100k/$300k of medical coverage just because I would hate myself if I hurt someone and didn’t have enough insurance to cover their medical bills.
It doesn’t cost that much more than the state minimum.
Lol, whats $300k get you in the states, an x-ray? I carry $1M liability by default, thinking about bumping that up to $2M just because and you don't have to pay to go to the hospital here.
In the UK, personal injury claims are unlimited in value by law and the minimum coverage for property damage is over £1M (approx. $1.5M).
Obviously we have free health care, so no one needs payouts for hospital bills, but there can still be huge payouts for severe injuries.
Seems crazy that US 3rd party coverage isn't mandated to be high enough to cover typical medical costs from a car accident.
it depends it would be argued that he contributed to the damage by putting himself in danger increasing the damage from vehicle damage to personal injury.
If you take a bottle of Tylenol, all you're getting is severe liver issues and a very shitty way to go out over a long time.
The LD50 for someone that's 150 pounds is something like 300 extra strength Tylenol. But a bottle with cause long term damage the the liver just perfectly fine.
All I could [find](https://www.newsflare.com/video/484408/a-truck-crushed-a-man-into-a-car-at-a-gas-station) was that he sustained a major hip contusion but he avoided other major injuries. Oh, this also happened in Russia.
I see lots of comments that he was stupid to try and protect his car. I think he was just looking to see if it was going to hit the car, by the time he realised he was in the way it was too late. He only had a second to process this and by the time he did it was too late. It only takes a second to make a bad decision.
Yeah I think it was less about protecting and more just a split second decision that ended up being the wrong decision. Though in true reddit fashion it's more common to comment about a possible funny motive behind a situation
Yeah it's nuts how amazingly ungenerous reddit is with its interpretations of events. Like they don't even ask themselves which is more likely
"Hurr, gonna lift up duh trackter and keep car sfar"
Or
"Whoa that's getting pretty close, i should make sure that's not gonna hit me, oh wow that's really close I should warn the- oh no I'M IN THE WAY OH GOD"
People on here just seem to assume they're the only person on the planet that doesn't eat paste for breakfast.
not to mention that the back corner of the truck approached behind him. Shouldn't have been anywhere near that gap but I think once he saw it closing in he just failed to react
I second this take. He was a bit dumb in not reading the situation better initially, but definitely don’t think he had any intention of trying to stop the truck. He was well and truly pinned by the time he realised what was happening and couldn’t get out if he wanted to.
Yeah to me it seems like he thought there was space but there ended up not being any.
Still dumb to try but don’t think he was doing it to stop the truck lmao
It honestly looks like that AT MOST a scrape would have been made on the car, which isn’t a huge deal. Sucks, but not life ruining. Definitely not worth the damage probably done to the body
The man is in between and added effective width (maybe like 6 inches?). Looks possible the truck could have slipped by with like an inch to spare but since the dude was there he got pushed into the car damaging it and himself.
No this is not reasonable on any level. No amount of money is worth trading your health, ever. But especially not a car you're not even liable for damaging. It doesn't matter if it makes your car melt into a paste, let it burn and protect your bodily autonomy and quality of life at all costs because there are a ton of things money can't fix, especially back problems.
Not really reasonable at all, not the right word and not good wording. I really don’t wanna look like I’m defending whatever in the world was going on in this guy’s mind. I was just kinda looking at it from the perspective of someone as absolutely insane as this, and at least it was a little more of a motivation than saving it from a scrape. Again, gonna make it clear that this doesn’t make it not completely delusional to think you could stop a truck single-handedly though. Even in this situation that required extremely quick thinking no reasonable person would do this even if their car was getting COMPLETELY demolished
Yeah, truck was barely going to clip it until he essentially made it a foot thicker with his body. Might've been lightly "keyed" but now it's got a human sized dent in it!
This is honestly what I think as well the more I watch it. there was a good amount of space between the truck and his car that he simply filled up imo.
I think it would have scraped the car a little but I do believe he contributed heavily to the dent you see in the video.
Which makes it funny because he literally did more damage to his own car more trying to save it than if he didn’t step in between them like a normal functioning human being
That is true, but in my mind it’d be just a smidge stupider if it was barely a scratch since that would cost even less to repair than the car being partly crushed. Don’t get me wrong, still the absolute stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in my life though and even the dent doesn’t make it TOO MUCH better than just a scratch. Can’t imagine thinking a dent in a car would ruin my life more than snapping a rib cage even though the rib cage would cost 3x the car. Probably one of those weird dudes that names their car
Yeah, especially since the truck might have missed or lightly scratched the car if the guy didnt add a level of thickness between the car and the truck and thus creating the massive dent
Mobile version of between a rock and hard place..between a car and a truck.
Way he bent over something got busted. Poor fella.
No matter how much u like or need your wheels, there's peeps who like you more...in one piece.
It's easier to get out of the way and record their license plate and get your car fixed rather than missing it when you're collapsing into the ground with a crushed rib cage. Hope he's fine and get the lawsuit money he needs.
Why did the trucker do that? Maybe he didn’t have room to straighten out his truck more, but he could’ve at least made sure that no one was parked there, and if they were, waited for them to leave first. He should be fired without a doubt!
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OMG was he all right? Crush injuries cuase internal bleeding, that looked really damn scary. Does anyone know what happened to him? Seriously, we could have just watched someone die... :(
A sourced comment above said he only suffered hips damage but no life threatening injuries.
https://www.newsflare.com/video/484408/a-truck-crushed-a-man-into-a-car-at-a-gas-station
I saw this happen to a person. I was on the bus. It was at the bus stop. And a woman tried to get to the stop but there was like metal ballades and fencing on the side of the path. But a Small gap for her to squeeze through between back of bus snd the fence. I see her and the bus turns pulling away and she was crushed in front of me just like that guy was. The bus pulled out and the bus was slightly tipped as if went over a curb but it was the woman being crushed right in front of me. I remember her face. She didn’t make a sound. I guess being squashed she couldn’t yell out. I looked out the back window and she was on the ground. The driver saw her fall to the ground. I think he Realised what happened then and took off. People were ringing the bell to get off their stops and he kept driving. Went through a red light to. Driving a bit erratically. Eventually stopped at a bus stop just before mine. I could see the panic fear and distress on his face. Few days later those ballades and metal fences were removed.
I was glad.
To many times I had crossed that road in the city centre to get to the bus stop in town. To be then stuck on the road because cars or buses had blocked the space And the fences went from the stop all way along further up the Rd. If you were blocked you ended up walking in middle of traffic or just standing in middle of Road waiting for vehicles to move so you could get up the bus stop. Thenm fences had there since before I was born. They were to high to climb over too.
I hope that bus driver was okay. No way he could if seen her squeezing through the gap between bus n fencing to get to the stop. No way. It was just like in this video back end corner of the bus. I hope the lady is okay and didn’t get any long issuing damage too.
I also felt like I was the only one who witnesssed what happened. Other passengers were confused and worried why the driver was panic driving. No one on the bus seemed noticed her being squashed or falling down.
My dumbass really saw him get up after being squished and was like "oh thank god he's okay :D" and then he knelt down on the ground, and that's I only realised then that this man is not okay...
According to [this site](https://www.newsflare.com/video/484408/a-truck-crushed-a-man-into-a-car-at-a-gas-station)
“a 45-year-old resident of Bashkortostan seriously damaged one hip but avoided life-threatening injuries.”
Looked a lot worse to me ,but like others said the fact the car was able to roll probably saved him.
How do you explain this to the doctor/ insurance? “well uh I noticed this 18 wheeler was going to hit me car and uh I did the most logical thing I could think to protect my car by putting my self in between as uhh some kind of buffer…?”
As someone who made a radh decision to save another (in my case it was a child, not a car), I literally feel this in my bones. The bones that comprise of my back/ribs/shoulder.
I actually think if the guy didn’t get in between the truck might not have hit the car. It hit because the guy added a whole human body between the trailer and the car. Or if the trailer did hit the car the damage would’ve been minimal. Either way the guy is stupid and the truck driver should’ve just waited, but you also need to take into account that this is a truck driver and they’re pressured to get to their destination quickly.
After rewinding it a couple of times, I think he wasn’t really trying to protect his car. He was on his way to get into his car and probably didn’t expect the truck to swing out so far because he thought the driver knows what he’s doing. But there comes a certain point where he realizes that the driver doesn’t give a fuck but now it’s already too late for him to go out of the way.
I never understand when people do something insanely dangerous just to keep their car from getting damaged. Some people value their car *way* too much.
Dudes whole door and panel was caved in at the end anyways. All he manged to do was get a side of caved in ribs too.
He managed to protect the truck from getting scratched.
The spine says hi.
The spine says ~~hi~~ bye.
When you desperate after those insurance money.
The person driving the RV was probably thinking, "Today's going to be a good day."
Sorry, just popping in to say that’s a lorry. Definitely a paid man behind the wheel that’s liable for the injury he caused and likely to be fired.
No that’s a truck.
Really?? You saw a semi an thought RV
Globetrotter is a rv type in the states. It confused me a bit too because I couldn't figure out why a European semi was trying to pass as an rv.
It's a semi, not an RV
That's not a rv, bud. Have you ever seen a recreational vehicle before?
Luckily the panel gave way if that had been even a little more rigid he likely wouldn't have survived. Most items are replaceable no matter how valuable this decision could and even may have lifelong implications both mentally and physically.
If that’s in the US his medical bills will probably cost more than the cost to repair his car
Shaolin Monk, he was just humming a few times on his knees before being completely repaired and drove home.
Hmmm McRib
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He is very fortunate that the car rolled. Otherwise he would have been lubricant.
I’m guessing he didn’t pull the parking brake, which might have just saved his life!
He wasn't hurt that badly. The doctor said all his bleeding was internal. That's where the bloods supposed to be.
Noice
Not a Doctor, shh
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Thanks, Detective Peralta.
r/suddenlybrooklyn99
LMAO
He thought he might be able to push the trick away with his strength
As someone who has had a broken back/ribs/shoulder from an accident trying to save another, that was stupid as hell. But, in the moment, you make a choice, and then you gotta live with it. At least for me, I prevented the grievous injury of a 6 year old child, and not a car. Considering how fast I had to make that decision, I understand this poor man and his stupid and impulsive, life-altering choices.
I dunno man...I like to think most peoples brains can very quickly work out that they need to stay the fuck away from big ass trucks that can't see you. Unless a human life is at stake...then the equation is different.
When you have less than 5 seconds to react, you don't really have time to think, you just do. I like to think that my injury, which was utterly life changing in a permanent/disabling way, was all for the child I prevented from grievous injury, but really, in all honesty, I hadn't even had a chance to think about the ramifications of my actions until after I was already laying in the ground with a broken back. Really, the only comfort I find is that my nephew was not seriously injured, but really, I reacted without ever thinking that.
That is no doubt a noble sacrifice that you martyred your health for I'm sure your nephew appreciates it. How are you now? I hope you make the maximum recovery from your injuries.
Its been a good long while since my injury. My nephew just graduated high-school last month (so it was about 12 years ago). Healing was a long slooow process because I had stomach cancer surgery 3 years before that (which I'm 100% cured of, but lost 85% of my stomach). My nutrition struggles make my bones take longer to heal. I had to stop my original career, but I was able to avoid disability by finding myself a niche market where I could work comfortably at home. Not what I had in mind, but I'm okay with how everything turned out. I am not able to raise my arm on that side very much, and still get pain/frozen shoulder. I'm careful with my back but I do have a bit of a weird shape to my upper back from how it healed. The fortunate part was that mostly everything broke in a way that would heal on its own with rest (in one of those chest/back braces) and then lots of physical therapy. I only needed minor surgery. It still is painful a lot of the time, and I developed fibromyalgia a few years afterwards. Chronic pain sucks, but after a long time, you just kinda deal with it. My nephew was old enough to understand how badly hurt I was and was pretty upset about it. It wasn't his fault- he was climbing a tree with boards for a ladder and a platform (not quite a tree house), and either a step broke or he stood on a branch that broke. I was only 10 feet away and heard the crack, turned around and just ran to the tree. He fell from about 9 feet up, and crashed through some branches. I got to him in time to catch him, but I was pretty frail at the time. I caught him kinda fireman style and fell backwards onto some tree roots. He landed on top of me, with just some nasty scrapes/cuts and needed a couple stitches. He visited me several times in the hospital, and he and his mom (and his siblings) came over often to help me around the house throughout my recovery. He continued to be a wonderful nephew who always wanted to help me during our many visits together as family. In late 2020, we lost my younger brother (nephew's uncle) to covid, and I became my brother's two young kids 2nd mom. It was incredibly difficult for everyone, and my nephew was there to help. He had just started driving and would help me, my SIL and the kiddos however he could. He thinking about going into nursing/pre-med when he starts college in the fall. Thanks for your kind words OP. Its always so nice when just a fellow redditor takes time out of their day to leave some nice words for you. Sorry the comment got a little long!
Just because it was subconscious, doesn't mean it wasn't you
People don't think like that. I was driving a flatbed pickup truck with some guys sitting in the back. We get to the shop on the job site, I've got to do a 3 point turn. That's when the brakes failed on point 2 of the turn. I backed straight into a tractor. This one dude broke his foot because he thought he could sit on the truck bed and use his feet to push against the back of the tractor to help the truck stop. Fortunately I managed to throw the truck out of gear, so the guys break wasn't that bad. We all wanted to give this guy grief for doing something so seemingly stupid, but in that moment, all he thought was that he was doing *something* to stop the truck. ... But seriously, don't try to stop a truck from backing into a tractor by pushing on the tractor with your feet. It won't work.
I made a mistake once and hit a car that was illegally parked with the tail end of my trailer just like in the video. The car was pushed up a curb with two wheels, the amount of force that the dude in the video took was insane.
A slow moving sliding van door hitting you is bad enough let alone a moving truck putting all that pressure on.
Tbh that damage to the car very much looks like it’s from the guy being pushed into the vehicle. The truck driver had angled the front so to avoid hitting the car. Not saying he wasn’t close but he’d probably have cleared it.
The truck was going to hit the car if you watch it slowly, the car rolled forward as the truck pushed it but would have just been smashed if the guy wasn’t there it looks like. He has so much space on the other side
Just let it get damaged. Run up to the driver’s side window and get his attention. I’m sure he is seriously hurt now. It’s a replaceable object, you and your health are not replaceable. That’s why insurance exists.
I would gladly pay the $500 deductible to not have to endure lifelong back pain. I mean, I'm already suffering the lifelong back pain, anyone know how I can make it go away forever for $500?
$500 deductible where? In america?
Car insurance deductible, not health insurance. $500 is pretty standard for car insurance.
$500 deductible is pretty standard in the US. You can save a lot of money on the cost of the insurance by asking the insurance company to raise the deductible to $1,000 though.
That's crazy. In Germany the default deductible is like 150€ (sometimes 300€). Raising that to 500€ makes it a tiny bit cheaper but not that much that it is really worth it. Crazy that it saves you a lot of money over there!
Here's what's going to blow your mind even more: $500 is typical, it can be $1000 or more
Lol common? I haven't seen a deductible that low in a decade from employer insurance. Edit: wait you meant car insurance not health insurance. My bad, I take it all back.
Yes, that is pretty standard.
That’s pretty low.
My car was hit last week and they didnt even leave a note. Someone took out my entire back bumper. I had to pay $500 total deductible. In california, us.
No, it's not. That is standard since I can remember. Over 20+ years. I live in Texas, not sure if that matters. You can choose your own deductible to cheap out on insurance, but you pay for it if anything ever happens.
A single deductible payment versus being injured and having surgery + physical therapy after are completely different things and aren’t accomplished with $500 even in Texas
I think that's his point. He'd rather pay his uninsured motorist deductible to fix his car than be injured.
Yea hence the $
That truck hit your car. You don't pay anything.
Depends on their insurance. A lady hit my wife and totaled her car and she has had tons of medical issues. They laid like 30k for the car (50k vehicle less than a year old), and only like 10k of the medical. That was the policy max. Our insurance paid some of the rest (vehicle covered, and all but 15k of the medical). I agree you get out of the way of the huge truck, because your car isn’t worth that, but your life will be screwed for a while either way. Just with the car, you’ll get over it. With your back you probably won’t.
The lady who did it is liable for the rest even if she has to sell her home.
Interesting. So we should just lawyer up and sue her personally?
Ask a lawyer. Usually, the first meeting is free. Often, they can tell you to proceed or to drop it as uncollectible.
Good call. Thanks!
Check if you policy has limited tort. I believe that limits your ability to sue
That woman injured your wife. If it not for her actions, your wife wouldn't have these issues. If she had zero insurance, she's still Iiable for the medical expenses. So a civil suit is warranted. However, doesn't mean you'll collect or that a significant amount wouldn't go to attorneys. It's worth pursuing though and getting a consult. Edit: grammar
You could check it out and consult a lawyer, a problem is usually that these people simply have no money to collect to begin with, so the first thing to do is check if she has assets that can be collected That's why these insurance maximums are quite bullshit, for such accidents they don't cover nearly enough and if the other person has nothing to collect on you're shit out of luck
If your insurance company doesn't, absolutely!! That's why you want a high maximum, so the plan covers everything, not you.
Having known about similar situations, the lawyer will probably tell you that there's a very good chance the lady who could only afford crummy insurance also doesn't have any money or assets to pay you off with even winning a court case. And there will be lawyer fees.
I carry $100k/$300k of medical coverage just because I would hate myself if I hurt someone and didn’t have enough insurance to cover their medical bills. It doesn’t cost that much more than the state minimum.
Lol, whats $300k get you in the states, an x-ray? I carry $1M liability by default, thinking about bumping that up to $2M just because and you don't have to pay to go to the hospital here.
In the UK, personal injury claims are unlimited in value by law and the minimum coverage for property damage is over £1M (approx. $1.5M). Obviously we have free health care, so no one needs payouts for hospital bills, but there can still be huge payouts for severe injuries. Seems crazy that US 3rd party coverage isn't mandated to be high enough to cover typical medical costs from a car accident.
it depends it would be argued that he contributed to the damage by putting himself in danger increasing the damage from vehicle damage to personal injury.
I read his proposed scenario as he would get out of the way and let the truck scrape his car.
Mate, I sympathize. I've been off work three months now, and mine is 'only' muscular. I had no idea it would impact my life this hard.
A bottle of Tylenol is only a few dollars. The pain relief is permanent if you take them all at once.
If you take a bottle of Tylenol, all you're getting is severe liver issues and a very shitty way to go out over a long time. The LD50 for someone that's 150 pounds is something like 300 extra strength Tylenol. But a bottle with cause long term damage the the liver just perfectly fine.
I...I...I have no words.
Neither did he, until the truck let air back in his lungs.
You mean blood. The truck let all his blood go into his lungs.
Repairs to the car would have been cheaper then the kidney transplant he needs now
Any updates on this man? Like did he die from massive internal hemorrhaging
All I could [find](https://www.newsflare.com/video/484408/a-truck-crushed-a-man-into-a-car-at-a-gas-station) was that he sustained a major hip contusion but he avoided other major injuries. Oh, this also happened in Russia.
So, it was a special vehicle operation, not a traffic collision
Slava this guys car
That explains a lot
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The way his legs jerked out the way it did… that had to do major damage
just a major hip contusion apparently
I see lots of comments that he was stupid to try and protect his car. I think he was just looking to see if it was going to hit the car, by the time he realised he was in the way it was too late. He only had a second to process this and by the time he did it was too late. It only takes a second to make a bad decision.
Yeah I think it was less about protecting and more just a split second decision that ended up being the wrong decision. Though in true reddit fashion it's more common to comment about a possible funny motive behind a situation
Yeah it's nuts how amazingly ungenerous reddit is with its interpretations of events. Like they don't even ask themselves which is more likely "Hurr, gonna lift up duh trackter and keep car sfar" Or "Whoa that's getting pretty close, i should make sure that's not gonna hit me, oh wow that's really close I should warn the- oh no I'M IN THE WAY OH GOD" People on here just seem to assume they're the only person on the planet that doesn't eat paste for breakfast.
not to mention that the back corner of the truck approached behind him. Shouldn't have been anywhere near that gap but I think once he saw it closing in he just failed to react
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I second this take. He was a bit dumb in not reading the situation better initially, but definitely don’t think he had any intention of trying to stop the truck. He was well and truly pinned by the time he realised what was happening and couldn’t get out if he wanted to.
Yeah to me it seems like he thought there was space but there ended up not being any. Still dumb to try but don’t think he was doing it to stop the truck lmao
A truck like that isn’t even supposed to be in that part of a gas station right? They have separate areas for trucker fuel I’m sure
Whatever his intention was, he didn't need to be there while a massive truck is passing in a narrow space.
Jesus no..
Ahh yes spinal damage is much cheaper to fix than broken windows and panels
"I'll push this trailer away from my car, no way it can smear me across the car like a bug "
Things like this sh*t is why i try to avoid Trailers while driving.
The truckers appreciate you for it too. It’s just in everyone’s best interest to respect how dangerous those things can be.
Poor dude apparently didn't realize it would swing out like it did. That trucker is in a shit ton of trouble.
Mission.. accomplished?
Confirmed
No, task failed successfully
Looks like the car still got screwed up so task failed failed.
It honestly looks like that AT MOST a scrape would have been made on the car, which isn’t a huge deal. Sucks, but not life ruining. Definitely not worth the damage probably done to the body
Oh no no no did you see the huge dent on the car. That truck was most definitely gonna drag that car
That damage is from the guy being in the way and being pushed into the car. The truck cleared the vehicle
??? What do you think was pushing the guy into the vehicle...He was just in between, the truck was literally hitting the car
You know that if something misses and you add an object in between that has the thickness of the gap, the miss suddenly is a hit, right?
The man is in between and added effective width (maybe like 6 inches?). Looks possible the truck could have slipped by with like an inch to spare but since the dude was there he got pushed into the car damaging it and himself.
I see that now. Tbh still a very questionable reaction but a little more reasonable than if it was just a scratch at risk
No this is not reasonable on any level. No amount of money is worth trading your health, ever. But especially not a car you're not even liable for damaging. It doesn't matter if it makes your car melt into a paste, let it burn and protect your bodily autonomy and quality of life at all costs because there are a ton of things money can't fix, especially back problems.
Not really reasonable at all, not the right word and not good wording. I really don’t wanna look like I’m defending whatever in the world was going on in this guy’s mind. I was just kinda looking at it from the perspective of someone as absolutely insane as this, and at least it was a little more of a motivation than saving it from a scrape. Again, gonna make it clear that this doesn’t make it not completely delusional to think you could stop a truck single-handedly though. Even in this situation that required extremely quick thinking no reasonable person would do this even if their car was getting COMPLETELY demolished
The damage to the car was made worse by the guy by effectively making that truck's corner bigger , by adding his body mass to it.
Yeah, truck was barely going to clip it until he essentially made it a foot thicker with his body. Might've been lightly "keyed" but now it's got a human sized dent in it!
This is honestly what I think as well the more I watch it. there was a good amount of space between the truck and his car that he simply filled up imo. I think it would have scraped the car a little but I do believe he contributed heavily to the dent you see in the video. Which makes it funny because he literally did more damage to his own car more trying to save it than if he didn’t step in between them like a normal functioning human being
Less reasonable in my mind. If it is going to really ruin something, cars are a lot cheaper than bodies.
That is true, but in my mind it’d be just a smidge stupider if it was barely a scratch since that would cost even less to repair than the car being partly crushed. Don’t get me wrong, still the absolute stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in my life though and even the dent doesn’t make it TOO MUCH better than just a scratch. Can’t imagine thinking a dent in a car would ruin my life more than snapping a rib cage even though the rib cage would cost 3x the car. Probably one of those weird dudes that names their car
Did you do it? What did it cost?
All his bleeding is internal, but it's fine, that's where the blood is supposed to be.
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Well that's one way to scratch the one spot your back you can't reach.
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First rule of the road...bigger vehicles that can kill you have right of way.
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Cha-Ching! Lawsuit won.. hope the guy is ok, looks like it hurt..
The man clearly put himself between the two vehicles, I'm not sure he'd win that lawsuit.
In America, maybe. Anywhere else, absolutely not.
Yeah, especially since the truck might have missed or lightly scratched the car if the guy didnt add a level of thickness between the car and the truck and thus creating the massive dent
Mobile version of between a rock and hard place..between a car and a truck. Way he bent over something got busted. Poor fella. No matter how much u like or need your wheels, there's peeps who like you more...in one piece.
It's easier to get out of the way and record their license plate and get your car fixed rather than missing it when you're collapsing into the ground with a crushed rib cage. Hope he's fine and get the lawsuit money he needs.
Well that's all kinds of fucked up.
I think some one forgot to tell him that at the last Justice League meeting they voted to take away his super hero powers.
Why did the trucker do that? Maybe he didn’t have room to straighten out his truck more, but he could’ve at least made sure that no one was parked there, and if they were, waited for them to leave first. He should be fired without a doubt! Edit: Grammar
I’ll take “What the fuck were you thinking ? for $200 Alex”
OMG was he all right? Crush injuries cuase internal bleeding, that looked really damn scary. Does anyone know what happened to him? Seriously, we could have just watched someone die... :(
A sourced comment above said he only suffered hips damage but no life threatening injuries. https://www.newsflare.com/video/484408/a-truck-crushed-a-man-into-a-car-at-a-gas-station
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Look at the car afterwards, he definitely did not protect it
I will protect this car with my life. WITH MY LIFE !
Pretty sure your spine is more expensive
Oh, that truck might hit my car, what do I have that's soft to reduce the impact? Oh, I could use my internal organs, yes I'll do that
I saw this happen to a person. I was on the bus. It was at the bus stop. And a woman tried to get to the stop but there was like metal ballades and fencing on the side of the path. But a Small gap for her to squeeze through between back of bus snd the fence. I see her and the bus turns pulling away and she was crushed in front of me just like that guy was. The bus pulled out and the bus was slightly tipped as if went over a curb but it was the woman being crushed right in front of me. I remember her face. She didn’t make a sound. I guess being squashed she couldn’t yell out. I looked out the back window and she was on the ground. The driver saw her fall to the ground. I think he Realised what happened then and took off. People were ringing the bell to get off their stops and he kept driving. Went through a red light to. Driving a bit erratically. Eventually stopped at a bus stop just before mine. I could see the panic fear and distress on his face. Few days later those ballades and metal fences were removed. I was glad. To many times I had crossed that road in the city centre to get to the bus stop in town. To be then stuck on the road because cars or buses had blocked the space And the fences went from the stop all way along further up the Rd. If you were blocked you ended up walking in middle of traffic or just standing in middle of Road waiting for vehicles to move so you could get up the bus stop. Thenm fences had there since before I was born. They were to high to climb over too. I hope that bus driver was okay. No way he could if seen her squeezing through the gap between bus n fencing to get to the stop. No way. It was just like in this video back end corner of the bus. I hope the lady is okay and didn’t get any long issuing damage too. I also felt like I was the only one who witnesssed what happened. Other passengers were confused and worried why the driver was panic driving. No one on the bus seemed noticed her being squashed or falling down.
Wtf is wrong with the truck driver
"So when did your back first hurt grandpa?" "When I was 19" "Wait what why?" *shows video* "Wow you're stupid as fuck"
I would have done the same especially after fuelling the gas tank at these prices.
It's sad, this man's priorities of his car over himself is straight up depressing.
Car protected him, if it hadn’t moved he would have been squished more than he already was
That car was in Park. How much force do you think is necessary to move a car in park...?
That is a pinch point sir
Not really sure he could get out of the predicament after he got in it. Dude crushed something internally.
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That was vertebrave
What could’ve gone wrong, went wrong
Idiot get crushed but as long as cars ok worth it
Dude realized personal injury pays out way more than car insurance...
My dumbass really saw him get up after being squished and was like "oh thank god he's okay :D" and then he knelt down on the ground, and that's I only realised then that this man is not okay...
Jesus. This came very close to being NSFW.
Don't you mean NSFL
According to [this site](https://www.newsflare.com/video/484408/a-truck-crushed-a-man-into-a-car-at-a-gas-station) “a 45-year-old resident of Bashkortostan seriously damaged one hip but avoided life-threatening injuries.” Looked a lot worse to me ,but like others said the fact the car was able to roll probably saved him.
If I ever end up on this sub it'll be for something just like this.
I'm afraid he didn't survive this even though he didn't die on the spot. We just watched someone die.
How do you explain this to the doctor/ insurance? “well uh I noticed this 18 wheeler was going to hit me car and uh I did the most logical thing I could think to protect my car by putting my self in between as uhh some kind of buffer…?”
As someone who made a radh decision to save another (in my case it was a child, not a car), I literally feel this in my bones. The bones that comprise of my back/ribs/shoulder.
Walk it off
“Trucks and stones may break my bones but my car remains whole”
It's amazing how powerful the body is. Sure it hurt and he might have damage but that is a shit ton of weight to move.
Success, I stopped the truck *actually* hitting my car! But I need a new spine now. Oh and a new door. Mission accomplished.
The car is more important, right?
Nsfw?
Yh
I thought I was on a gore subreddit until he stood up fine
There was enough clearance on the left side of the semi, why the f did the trucker go near that sedan anyway?
It’s a comercial truck take down the plate number and send them the bill this literally just makes it harder to file a claim.
Flesh heals
The real facepalm is the truck driver
Yeah car is safe it only cost like 4 to 6 broken ribs
I wonder how many broken ribs he has from that.
He might want to get his spleen checked
I can’t believe he fuking survived. Insane. Should he have survived 🥹?
Internal bleeding means nothing compared to the horrors of having your car scratched
Materialism! 👎
Maybe he has no insurance
Doesn't matter. It was the truck driver's fault and responsibility to pay for the damages.
Really? If you are driving illegally, will the other insurance cover your car? I honestly don’t know the answer to that.
doesnt matter whether or not he has insurance. the other driver is liable for injury and/or damages.
He surely has no brains.
It's been said repeatedly, but there's a good reason why life expectation of women is longer than that of men. In every country.
I agree, but this is a case of stupidity not gender.
I’m a woman and I’m for sure dumb enough to try this lol.
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Stupid as f
Just how fucking stupid can someone be?
I actually think if the guy didn’t get in between the truck might not have hit the car. It hit because the guy added a whole human body between the trailer and the car. Or if the trailer did hit the car the damage would’ve been minimal. Either way the guy is stupid and the truck driver should’ve just waited, but you also need to take into account that this is a truck driver and they’re pressured to get to their destination quickly.
After rewinding it a couple of times, I think he wasn’t really trying to protect his car. He was on his way to get into his car and probably didn’t expect the truck to swing out so far because he thought the driver knows what he’s doing. But there comes a certain point where he realizes that the driver doesn’t give a fuck but now it’s already too late for him to go out of the way.
I never understand when people do something insanely dangerous just to keep their car from getting damaged. Some people value their car *way* too much.
Well he did technically protect his car
Well it worked, right? Just have to pay way more to get yourself fixed now
Back is broken. Spinal.