r/dashcams • u/wronghoIe • 18h ago

Flipping your car at 5 mph

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u/dyslexicAlphabet 17h ago

i work with a guy who flipped his jeep over on its side off roading and he put his hands out to brace the crash because it was so slow and he lost 7 fingers.

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u/1sthomehelp 17h ago

Lmao imagine trying to "brace" a vehicle from fallingšŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

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u/dyslexicAlphabet 17h ago

realistically you would go into a ball but i think his instincts because it was so slow was to put his arms out.

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u/MaleficentPapaya4768 16h ago

Thatā€™s absolutely the ā€œIā€™m fallingā€ instinct. The top part of your brain doesnā€™t usually have time to interrupt the lizard/monkey level reflexes in this sort of situation.

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u/dyslexicAlphabet 16h ago

thats what i hate about his situation when i think about it i just imagine myself doing the same thing. gives me that funny feeling that doesn't feel good w/e its called.

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u/Its-ther-apist 15h ago

Sympathy pains? Second hand embarrassment?

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u/disktoaster 15h ago

An underappreciated mechanic is also that your head is remarkably heavy and tends to try to pull your upper body ahead during slow falls. He might have felt, physically, like he was about to go through the window and be way worse off. It does feel that way in the kind of slow rollover that happens while offroading. Not that I'm speaking from experience... šŸ¤

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u/Aurora_Uplinks 10h ago

apathy helps