That's what happens when you drive on the wrong side of the road! Sheesh

Buddy turns INTO the path of the oncoming car, then over-corrects into a spin-out. Terrific work.

I'm sure the driver assumed the turning car would notice sooner and stop. Even if it didn't, it's safer to smash into the turning car than to drive into oncoming traffic..

Seriously folks, don't judge the driver here like you have survived 10 of these exact same incidents, flawlessly. Adrenaline, thoughts of the child in the back, all those things affect how you react. Judging from the safety of our monitors isn't very nice.

No collision, no injuries, and everyone got to come home alive. That is all that matters.

Well, you actually don't know for sure "everyone got to come home alive." You have no knowledge of what happened afterwards.

Don't judge the video here like you have viewed 10 of these exact same videos judgmentally.

Certainly. Another vehicle could have struck them right after, but I was not speaking about hypotheticals outside of the video.

I was speaking of people judging exactly what was shown, that I had an issue with.

*wtf *fail *ftw *timeshift

Adding video to channels (Fail, Ftw, Timeshift, Wtf) - requested by ant.

I read the news article quoting the driver's husband - can confirm, everyone got to come home alive.

Also the turning driver left the scene.

I would take that route out every time.

Turning to the right would require not only a larger change in direction from me, but also the risk of hitting oncoming traffic rather than a very slow moving/stationary vehicle or running off onto grass.

As for the over correction, that's someone driving in a very stressful situation and doing their best. Just about every car you can buy in the UK now has stability control that would have prevented that spin, and the amount of training it would take for someone to be able to reliably control a car without that stability control through a stressful and unexpected situation like that would be overly prohibitive.

The larger swerve required to go to the right of the car cutting in across the lane would have made the car a lot more unstable and a lot more likely to turn over.

Bad call to go to the right. She made the right choice, and less dangerous one and everyone walked away.

To everyone who thinks they'd do better, saying "oh i'd just turn this way here, then back here, don't oversteer, dip the clutch, you'll be fine, dangerous over reaction." You should know that you don't get to plan it out like that from the relaxing comfort of a computer chair.

Put yourself in her position:
- did she sleep last night or did the kid keep her up?
- perhaps just off a long work shift?
- thinking about 10 other things
- maybe a drive she does every day i.e. boring, not something to hold your interest
- condition and grip of road surface
- and so on.........

It happens when you least expect it (you *always* least expect your car to slide) and unless you're a regular drift racer you don't instantly identify the sensation as skidding.

Source: rolled a car after skidding on an oil spill

She avoided the collision and stopped safely. I wouldn't call that a fail at all.