Merging onto a highway shouldn’t be as difficult as this Toyota Supra driver makes it out to be
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The recipe for a sports car is quite simple: place a powerful engine in the front, send its power to the rear wheels, and remove any extraneous bits. While intoxicating, this recipe can also lead to unfortunate consequences if you’re too heavy-footed, as one Toyota driver recently learned.
In videos shared to a number of Instagram accounts, a silver Toyota Supra Mk5 can be seen losing control while driving onto a highway. The BMW-powered coupe then pirouettes across four lanes of traffic, and into an unsuspecting Subaru Ascent whose only crime was trying to use a public road.
Although few details were shared with these videos, there are a few pieces of salient information we can glean from them. For starters, in a video shot by the Supra behind the one that crashed, it’s clear that this accident took place in San Diego, California, along the Pacific Coast Highway.
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In addition to the following car being a Supra, the vehicle ahead of it was one, too. This, coupled with the presence of some other interesting vehicles, suggests that the crashed car may have been attending or leaving a show, or at least a meetup of some sort.
The videos show that the Supra was merging onto the PCH, and a line of people can be seen on the overpass, watching them do so. While we cannot know for sure, it seems entirely possible that the driver was trying to show off for the audience when they lost it.
While there’s some discussion in the comment section about who’s at fault for this accident, I tend to agree with the commenter @kenny.frontin, who wrote, “Ppl blaming the suv need to surrender their license and keys.”
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Indeed, we all use the highway under the general assumption that all of the vehicles will be traveling in the same direction. Moreover, the SUV’s driver appears to have had pretty quick reflexes, and the dive of the front end suggests they hit the brakes hard before being run into by the Supra.
Luckily, according to user @2upra.3, who shot the posted the dashcam footage of the crash, the Supra’s driver was okay, as was the SUV’s driver. Just the latest reminder that we should never take grip for granted, this video shows just how sudden and scary accidents like these can be.
