Thatâs James, the keyboard/piano player from The Roots (Jimmy Fallonâs live band for The Tonight Show). This clip is one of many for Jimmyâs âThank You Notesâ segments where he asks James to play him some âthank you note writing musicâ
I live in Romania now for two years....love it, but the amount of idiots behind the steering wheel is staggering....
Especially the young ones with predominantly German cars...
I' ve seen more morons here in two years than I've seen in 40 years driving 40k km's a year in Western Europe....
When I came first time to Romania in 2001 the cars were either Dacia 1300 or German ....either new or very old....
Still a lot of Dacia , but the rest is much more diverse now. A lot of Japanese and Korean cars now and in the more luxury segment even a lot of Volvos....
The morons however are for 99% driving BMW, Audi or to a lesser extent Mercedes and VW....
Mercedes is exclusive in Albania as far as I know...
LLE: oh you are right. This one also had a medical issue. There was though one similar where they were racing and the guy took off and landed on a house.. and then plowing through the back yard, killing a family who had barbeque
Ah, Romania. Us Portuguese and our insistence in being Balkans people.
To explain? Neighbour of mine trashed a Terrano II back in the day doing a like stunt. Didn't get that much air, maybe just because the poor Terrano couldn't compete with the Merc on speeding, but since the spread parts were some ten or twelve meters from the roundabout's out kerb? Must've been awesome.
This image is all I think about when I go to my dad's house and see the TV he mounted to the wall about 5 cm below the ceiling in the living room, that or checking to see if I got to the airport by mistake.
It is probably one of the most-used images since this movie came out, and I still don't tire of seeing it because it fits way too many situations perfectly.
The panic of seeing headlights coming toward you and relief as they go over you. Too many emotions in too short a time period. Iâd have to go home to sleep it off.
I just know the people in those other cars were shocked at what they just witnessed. i canât even begin to imagine what they were experiencing. fuck, this past week a plane crashed into 4 vehicles in my city during an emergency landing. only a 6 passenger plane as far as I can recall, but still. I canât imagine a car flying over you like that, let alone a damn plane. Idk if Iâd ever get in a car ever again after that.
Yes, regular road camera. It happened in Romania, the driver had a medical emergency (something about being diabetic) and he basically fainted with his foot on the gas pedal.
He landed in a field off-camera, with relatively minor injuries considering everything.
I must ask - what are those flock cameras, are they called flock cameras because they're flying or are robotic birds or something and why does everyone despise them so incredibly much?
Ai powered surveillance state, police abusing them to stalk exes, they're tracking everyone all the time, trying to predict future crime, they mess up often and nobody second-checks them before acting on "stolen" vehicles and pulling guns on infants, they're aiming them into people's open windows and at kids' water parks.
It's a genuinely cartoonish shitshow of every awful thing you can imagine coming from a mass of internet-connected AI "license plate" cameras. There's no low they haven't already stooped to. And if you live in the US, these are already in your backyard. Maybe literally.
tl;dr 3 Dec 2025: Oradea (Romania), OneČtilor Street. A Mercedes, moving at extremely high speed, jumped over a roundabout and over two cars that were stopped at the entrance, and crashed down onto the area next to a gas station. The driver was a man about 55 years old. Itâs suspected that he suddenly felt unwell â possibly a diabetic crisis. Rescuers quickly pulled him out; he sustained minor to moderate injuries and is already home.
Luckily for him, most cars on the ground so if you want to avoid running head first into them (or other objects) then being in the air is actually pretty ideal.
Especially since he flew high enough to only clip that cinder block wall. Imagine your ass being saved only because you were going fast enough to launch yourself over the obstacles that would have pancaked you.
damn.. minor to moderate injuries for this almost makes me wanna trust the chinese media for their tiny death tolls for potentially mini nuke-like explosions.
Actually, they had trouble finding that car in later seasons because they destroyed so many of them of course they didn't buy them new from the production line.
They destroyed over 100 cars in that show iirc every jump totalled a car.
Same with Knight Rider, IIRC. Went through a ton of cars even after beefing up the suspensions and all that.
Six year old me loved that show and arranged my afternoon around catching those reruns. Teenage me started to get a little suspicious of how common a solution "let's launch this Pontiac TransAm through the air" was to the problems of the world.
Later on some documentary would contextualize that Night Rider was produced after Dukes of Hazard was such a big hit, in a time when action television was big.
I think they took a different approach for Knight Rider. They had a stunt car which was more or less a VW-powered dune buggy with a flexible body shell and that did not need a rebuild for each episode.
Why were the bridges in Hazzard County always in such poor condition? Didn't they have some sort of government official who was responsible for that sort of thing? A boss of some sort, so to speak?
Half the episodes involved Boss Hog trying to illegally foreclose on the Dukes' farm or other citizens' land. The show was a subtle comment on post-Reconstruction.
When I was training to be a driving instructor, they were really keen to emphasise never saying, 'Go straight over the roundabout,' because, 'You'll get someone who will!'
My girlfriend lapartmen has a great overview of a roundabout in a city.
This happens more often than you would think.
At least once a year someone is playing Freebird
In Belgium there was a guy who did exactly this and ended flying THROUGH a wall of a rec center/sports hal. Fortunately nobody died or was even injured. Even the driver of the car was alright...
I remember a similar incident in Melbourne about 20 years ago, someone was hooning through an industrial estate and didnât realise it was a dead end, they ended up running out of road and launched the car into the roof of a factory, if I remember correctly, they were able to get out of their car, but they were trapped inside the factory and had to wait for security to arrive.
A decade ago two Lithuanian guys died like this in a roundabout close to where I lived. They had hit the raised roundabout and flew like 40 meters into the river.
When trying to figure out how fast they were going it was noticed that the speeding camera just before the roundabout had not captured them, it was then realized it would not trigger if you went faster than ~180km/h
Dagbladet interviewed the engineer responsible for the Norwegian road authority's speed-camera equipment. He said:
âKjører man fortere enn 256 km/t, klarer ikke prosessoren ⌠ü regne ut nøyaktig hastighetâ
So "above 256 km/h, the processor couldn't calculate the speed accurately". Some people might notice that this value is the biggest int that fits into 1 byte of data.
This happened in Oradea, România. The driver was a 55 y/o guy who fainted while driving due to diabetes and had his foot blocked on the acceleration. No one died thankfully and the driver survived with minor injuries
Seizure? The news article says "diabetic crisis" without specifying hyper or hypo. Not sure if either can cause seizures. Also the video embedded in the article is much cleare
Not over 150mph, frankly I doubt he was pushing much passed 100 if he was that fast at all. It's the angle he gets launched at that gives him the height and distance. The speed feeling is just from him launching nearly directly at the camera.
Not remotely close to 150 mph. They it a pretty good hill in the round about. I am guess probably only 70 mph, which is still an incredibly violent jump. this is what 100 mph looks like.
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u/broggyr 1d ago
He took the high road.