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Walking bridges are built to ensure the safe passage over roadways for pedestrians and cycling traffic, but a freak accident, which reportedly occurred in the Russian city of Vladivostok, proves that there's no such thing as "100 percent safe".
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Bridges are not the kind of constructions that one can simply ignore after building, as they need constant attention and minor repairs to be kept safe through their active lifespan. Yet not even these, and periodic checks are enough to accurately determine...
- Pitiful Insurance Scam Has An Unexpected Outcome [updated]
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- This Pedestrian Doesn't Even Know How Lucky She Is
While even stray dogs nowadays seem to comprehend the concept of looking both ways before walking across the road, some pedestrians insist on their "right" to walk in front of vehicles where there is no crosswalk. Amazingly, even though this...
- Keep On Driving: Russian Driver Goes On With At Least Three Flat Tires
From our "that looks perfectly safe" files comes this video that shows a Russian driver of what could be a Volga (if we're wrong, drop us a note in the comments) running on at least three flat tires on the highway. Truly an accident just...
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You Can Say That it Was a Very Close Call for This Pedestrian
Walking bridges are built to ensure the safe passage over roadways for pedestrians and cycling traffic, but a freak accident, which reportedly occurred in the Russian city of Vladivostok, proves that there's no such thing as "100 percent safe".
If you pay attention to the video, you will see a man hoping down the stairs of a pedestrian bridge when all of a sudden, at the 7-second mark, a silver sedan crashed into the side of a truck.
Read more »- Would You Run Away If A Truck Just Backed Over You?
When we say "backed over", we mean it in the most literal sense; a truck driver captured on a security camera on Tuesday, in Russia, was backing up on the sidewalk without having someone on the outside to help him out, when a pedestrian, who...
- Busy Wisconsin Bridge Sags And Scares Commuters, Closes Indefinitely
Bridges are not the kind of constructions that one can simply ignore after building, as they need constant attention and minor repairs to be kept safe through their active lifespan. Yet not even these, and periodic checks are enough to accurately determine...
- Pitiful Insurance Scam Has An Unexpected Outcome [updated]
What begins as another one of those dishonest attempts to fool a road user into thinking (or at least not being able to prove otherwise of his or her innocence) that the driver or rider is to blame for a pedestrian accident and which have been caught...
- This Pedestrian Doesn't Even Know How Lucky She Is
While even stray dogs nowadays seem to comprehend the concept of looking both ways before walking across the road, some pedestrians insist on their "right" to walk in front of vehicles where there is no crosswalk. Amazingly, even though this...
- Keep On Driving: Russian Driver Goes On With At Least Three Flat Tires
From our "that looks perfectly safe" files comes this video that shows a Russian driver of what could be a Volga (if we're wrong, drop us a note in the comments) running on at least three flat tires on the highway. Truly an accident just...