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Ukrainian Driver and Passenger See Nothing, Hear Nothing, Know Nothing after Crash…

If you were to begin viewing this video from the 20-second mark and on, you would be excused to think that the driver and his passenger simply parked their beaten up Lada Riva Estate (VAZ-2107) in the middle of the road and left to go on to their work or wherever else they were heading to.

Watch the clip from the start, though, and you will be surprised to learn that a couple of seconds earlier, they had just smashed into the black Toyota Land Cruiser you see sitting behind the Lada!

What could have been a follow up on Monday's news on the sighting of another prototype of Mercedes-Benz's SLS AMG Black Series Edition took a…toastier twist today as the German firm's test car ended up on a guardrail while running on the Nürburgring race track and burned to the ground.

There's not a lot of information about the incident at this time, though, we do know that both the driver and his passenger abandoned the vehicle uninjured before it was engulfed in flames.

The bits and pieces of the SLS AMG Black Series Edition that are scatted on the ground along with the positioning of the car suggest that drive may have lost control smashing into the guardrail with the Gullwing coupe's rear end.

We guess someone wasn't paying attention to the road, which is kind of scary if you think about it, as this accident that was caught on camera could happen to anyone.

Granted, the Daewoo Matiz (did you know that its design was based on a rejected concept for a Fiat 500 by Italdesign Giugiaro named the Lucciola?) is a small car but not small enough not to notice on the road, especially in broad daylight…

A red light camera caught an accident between a 2008 Smart ForTwo mini and a Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor that occurred on September 12, 2012, in Palm Coast City, Florida.

The footage shows a Flagler County Sheriff’s Ford cruiser driven by Deputy Darrell Butler, 26, making its way through the traffic with the car's emergency lights activated.

There's lucky, there's really lucky and then there's this driver, reportedly from Russia, which shouldn’t come to as a surprise to anyone.

What makes this incident so special is that driver avoided not, one, not two but three vehicles including a large truck without even a scratch to his (or her) car.

A driving student in St. Petersburg, Russia, got more than what she for bargained when the young woman decided to use…'hand' language to tell an instructor what she thought about him and his cranky attitude.

Xenia Kolotenko, an aspiring journalist, told Russian news site Neva24 that she went to take a driving exam along with her instructor at the traffic police on August 31.

The instructor stepped out of the car and let Kolotenko do some trial runs in her vehicle. However, the woman took almost twice as long as normally required to complete the tests, something that annoyed the driving instructor who stopped her and told that if she can't move her pace, it would better if she went home.

A raggedy rag Honda Civic del Sol (also known as the CR-X del Sol and the new CR-X, depending on the region) parked on the grass near Lake Beaulac in Quebec, Canada? Check.

Two enthusiastic young men prepared to sacrifice their safety and well-being for the entertainment of their fellow citizens? Check.

A cameraman on hand to record the incident? Check.

All that's left for Canada's Lloyd and Harry is to step on a wooden plank and tell the driver of the Civic del Sol to push the pedal to the metal. You can probably guess what happens next…

U.S. traffic deaths increased by nine percent in the first six months of the year, to 16,290 people, the most since 2009, according to a preliminary report by the National Highway Safety Administration.

The latest findings interrupt a 5-year continuous downward trend, which resulted in what the administration called a “historic” 60-year low in 2011. The NHTSA report does not examine causes, and a full report of analyzed data could take more than a year.

One of our tipsters tells us that in Russia, a yellow sign with an exclamation mark represents the same thing that the British "L-plate" does: a newly licensed driver.

In this case, we have not one, but allegedly two future Russian driving stars in the making, the first sitting behind the wheel of a Chinese Lifan hatchback and the other a previous iteration of the Volkswagen Golf.

If we told you that, a rider who was not wearing any protective gear other than a helmet, lost control of his motorcycle at highway speeds and came down tumbling across the road, suffered only some minor scratches, we doubt that you would believe us.

Even more so, if you watch the scary and somewhat unexplainable accident (at least from this angle and distance) as it happened through the helmet-mounted camera of a fellow biker coming from behind.

Perhaps in another parallel universe, some strange beings could call this woman's actions courageous and admirable, but here on earth, we would like to believe that most people would describe her as senseless and completely irresponsible.

What did she do? Well, how about standing right in front of a big foot Jeep Wrangler during a rock climbing competition and falling down multiple times, yet continuing to hold on to her camera instead of trying to get out of harm's way?

We sometimes like to think that we have seen it all, only to be proved wrong time and time again.

While downhill skateboard racing has its dangers, we somehow doubt that Ryan Vitale was expecting an innocent looking deer to be one of them.

It all happened during a practice run at this past weekend's Buffalo Bill Downhill Bloodspill race on Lookout Mountain when Vitale along with many other skateboarders, were rolling at speeds of up to 45mph (72 km/h).

We are no tractor specialists or anything of the sort, and we could be wrong, but tilting a tractor forward at a 45-degree angle and at the same time, having its mechanical arm extended all the way out, doesn't exactly sound safe, and in this case at least, it wasn't…

While the operator was attempting to bring the rear end of the tractor to the ground, the laws of gravity kicked and the vehicle fell on its back – fortunately without hitting anyone or crashing into the cars that were traveling on the road at the time.

Say what you want about the aesthetics of the smiley-shaped grille of older Peugeot cars, but we know that it has proved its worth when it comes to saving the lives of dogs.

How else can you explain the fact that for the second time (see the first incident here), we have discovered a video showing a pooch that made it out alive after being hit by what looks to be a Peugeot ~~308~~ 307 compact hatchback?

According to the poster of the clip, the dog was allegedly hit at a speed of 90km/h (56mph), which sounds a lot to us, but without additional information, there's no way of being sure.

There is no doubt that, at some point, we have all done something stupid behind the wheel, but you would think that driving one of the fastest cars in the world like the Nissan GT-R on a side road would make you a tad more careful.

Try telling that to the...pilot of the gunmetal GT-R in the insane video that follows after the break.

In what appears to be some sort of sports car cruise, possibly in Maryland judging by the "Ballenger Creek Pike" and "Elmer Derr Road" signs, the GT-R driver passes the car filming the incident and which was already going fast, from the left hand side of the road, as if there was no tomorrow.

We know that at least some of you missed our offbeat videos from Russia during the hectic press days of the Mondial de l'Automobile 2012 in Paris, so here's a fresh incident from the land of matryoshka dolls and vodka.

This video footage, captured by the victim named Vyacheslav Krekov and which was recorded on September 28, 2012 (and not in 2010 as displayed on the clip), shows the man driving his car on a road in Krasnoyarsk, the third largest city in Siberia.

Japan can't seem to get a break. After the devastating Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in March of 2011, a super typhoon nicknamed Jelawat struck Japan's main island of Honshu on Sunday claiming the life of at least two people and leaving more than 100 injured, according to the latest reports.

And mind you, Jelawat is actually the second powerful tropical cyclone to hit the region in the past two weeks…

A video shot by U.S. Marine Joseph M. Nolan at the American Marine base on Japan's southern island of Okinawa demonstrates the sheer power of the typhoon when the violent winds of up to 234 km/h (145 mph) hurled a minivan into the air and across a residents' parking lot.

For our next Offbeat story, we're moving a little to the west of Russia to Ukraine and the country's fifth largest city, Odessa, where another crazy accident took place earlier this week. Read more »

BMW Tool Power Drifts Tuned M6 Coupe Into a Taxi Cab and a Motorcyclist in Vietnam

A BMW fan club event that took place on the streets of Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City ( formerly known as Saigon) this past Sunday had an unexpected outcome when one of the drivers thought it would be a great idea to entertain the small crowd by power drifting his tuned M6 Coupe around a corner.

The owner of the matte-black M6, which is said to have some 700-horses lurking under its hood, lost control of the car and smashed into a park taxi van, narrowly avoiding its driver, but not the scooter rider that was located in front of the cab – fortunately, he was not seriously injured.

After watching this video footage sourced from a surveillance camera for the very first time, you may find yourself saying, "There's no way any of this could have really happened". Yet it did.

Do we feel bad for what happened to the woman? Absolutely, but that doesn't mean we won't categorize this incident as a huge fail…

The scene starts with the woman getting into a white Mercedes-Benz E-Class sedan and backing out from what looks like a residential driveway. Just before she reaches the road, the woman stops, gets out of the car, and walks a few feet to pick up something from the ground. Bad move…

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Ukrainian Driver and Passenger See Nothing, Hear Nothing, Know Nothing after Crash…

Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Edition Prototype Burns to the Ground on the 'Ring

Highway Bump in the Behinds Overturns Daewoo Matiz in South Korea

Former City Councilman in Smart ForTwo T-Bones a Ford Crown Vic Interceptor

Let's Count How Many Times this Russian Driver Got Lucky

This is What You Get When You Show a Russian Driving Instructor the Middle Finger

Dumb and Dumber Attempt to Restrain a Honda CR-X del Sol in Canada

NHTSA Reports Increase in Traffic Deaths For the First Time in 5 Years, Baffles Experts

!Two Greenhorn Drivers Learn a New Lesson in Russia!

You Won't Believe it at First, But the Rider Made it Out Almost Unhurt in this Incident

Real-Life SouthPark: Woman Stumbles in Front of a Big Foot Jeep But Still Won't Let Go of the Camera

Skateboarder Going 40mph Down the Hill T-Bones Bambi the Deer… [NSFW]

Can You Guess What Happens Next in this Scene?

Amazingly, Peugeot's Smiley Grille Saves Another Dog's Life

Fast & Furious Nissan GT-R Driver Hits a Bump and Goes Flying Into a Field!

You Never Know What Will Come Your Way in Russia: Sideswipe Edition

Watch a Typhoon in Japan Blow Away a Minivan as if it were a Toy

Ukraine: Someone Forgot to Yell Timber…

BMW Tool Power Drifts Tuned M6 Coupe Into a Taxi Cab and a Motorcyclist in Vietnam

Woman Forgets to Secure Mercedes-Benz E-Class, which Ends up Whacking her in the Face…

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