Ой!!!

Probably not a good idea to stop your own car over the exact manhole that just wrecked the car in front of you.

Took me a second to figure out what happened. The manhole is open and the front tire drops into it.

*russia

CLOSE YOUR HOLE!!!

one of those cases in which going faster would actually have prevented the accident

edit never mind


>> ^Nexxus:

Took me a second to figure out what happened. The manhole is open and the front tire drops into it.

I don't know what you're thinking, but I'm thinking someone placed that metal mesh over the hole so that cars could go over the hole, but the mesh actually got caught in the hole, and levered the car up.

>> ^EMPIRE:

I don't know what you're thinking, but I'm thinking someone placed that metal mesh over the hole so that cars could go over the hole, but the mesh actually got caught in the hole, and levered the car up.


Umm, the video makes it pretty clear.

The front left tyre goes in to the hole, smashes in to the far side and the ass end of the car rises as the front dramatically decelerates... Same sort of force applied as jamming on the front brakes of a bike and the back of the bike rises.

It would be difficult to see the lack of a dark metal manhole over a dark hole at speed when you aren't distinctly looking for it.

>> ^Asmo:

>> ^EMPIRE:
I don't know what you're thinking, but I'm thinking someone placed that metal mesh over the hole so that cars could go over the hole, but the mesh actually got caught in the hole, and levered the car up.

Umm, the video makes it pretty clear.
The front left tyre goes in to the hole, smashes in to the far side and the ass end of the car rises as the front dramatically decelerates...

Nope. Watch the second video (in eric3579's post above) on 720p and you can better see what happens.

The manhole has an off-center metal mesh cover welded to a cylinder that fits down into the manhole (presumably to keep the mesh in place).
The front-left tire clips the side of the mesh cover, presumably just enough to pop it up. That's what catches the undercarriage and vaults the back end up.
The structure of the mesh-cylinder apparatus is more apparent at the end of the video when it settles near the hood of the vehicle.

720p manhole cover video's, the future of entertainment is here.

That's not just mesh. That's more like security bar fencing. My guess is someone well-meaning but without much mechanical intelligence thought it would be strong enough for cars to drive over, and better than an open hole, so they welded it to a cylinder that happened to fit and poof, instant manhole cover. Either way, that's an engineering *fail.

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