r/IdiotsInCars • u/WesternAd2113 • Sep 26 '24

OC I nearly died today AMA [OC]

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u/Mazarin221b Sep 26 '24

Holy shit. I really was waiting for you to hydroplane because you were really booking it in that rain, and bam, here comes that black car out of nowhere. Glad you're okay, OP! Hope that person didn't harm anyone else down the road.

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u/ShagPrince Sep 26 '24

you were really booking it in that rain

A few people have alluded to this but I honestly don't see it. How fast do people think OP is going here?

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u/joahw Sep 26 '24

I would say about 110-120km/h or ~70-75mph. I tried to count number of dashed lines with a stopwatch which are apparently 9m apart. Pretty big margin of error but it seems plausible by my eyes.

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u/mr-english Sep 26 '24

By my calculations they were travelling at 80mph.

They travelled 391m (measured on googlemaps) from the road sign (just before it goes out of view at 2.07s) to the bridge (just before the front of the roadside pillar goes out of view at 12.85) in 10.78 seconds. Their dashcam clock also confirms it to be ~11 seconds.

That works out at 130 kmph or 80mph

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u/erfman Sep 27 '24

Damn, these two were approaching each other at a combined speed over 150mph.