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‘Flung From the Car Like a Rag Doll’: Video Shows Passenger Flying Through Sunroof During Crash

On a notoriously bad stretch of road in a Dudley, West Midlands., neighborhood in the U.K. residents are unfortunately getting used to accidents happening in front of their home. According to The Mirror, eight accidents have occurred on the road, which has been reviewed by the city council for safety, within the last decade.

The latest accident though may be one for the record books. A female driver lost control of her Peugeot 406 late Sunday night, causing it to nearly flip on its side and launching the passenger out of the sunroof in the process. Video footage shows the male passenger landed on the ground but quickly getting up and checking himself briefly before going to attend to his girlfriend who also went unharmed.

Man Flung Out of Cars Sunroof in Crash Caught on CCTV

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

Man Flung Out of Cars Sunroof in Crash Caught on CCTV

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

Man Flung Out of Cars Sunroof in Crash Caught on CCTV

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

Watch the footage:

The Sun has more from the owners of the home in front of which the vehicle landed:

The crash was captured on home-security cameras installed outside pensioner Howard Hampton’s home.

Howard, 75, a former brewery driver, said: “I was just dropping off to sleep at about 10.30pm when I heard this almighty bang.

“Me and my wife Margaret looked out of the bedroom window to see this car lying in our front garden.

“This couple in their 30s were standing in front of the car hugging – I looked at them, then back at this mangled car and I thought, ‘How on earth are they alive?’

“When I checked the footage back it just confounded my amazement – their car just somersaulted and the man comes flying out the sun-roof.

“I’ve caught people stealing my door mat on CCTV before but never anything like this.”

According to The Sun, this is the fourth time in two years that the couple’s garden wall has been smashed by cars. It notes Howard’s sister Joyce, also his next door neighbor, saying the sound that woke her up made her think “Oh no, the garden wall’s gone again.”

The Mirror reports the local city council evaluated the stretch of road in 2009 and installed signs warning drivers of the appropriate speed needed to accommodate safe driving on the road.

(H/T: CNN)

Comments (23)

  • Zuitsuit
    Posted on July 13, 2012 at 12:27am

    Fake

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  • sweetgold
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:15pm

    yes, I know how to spell that

    Report Post » sweetgold  
  • Juniemoon
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 7:55pm

    Tight shorts and all.

    Report Post » Juniemoon  
  • Burns_jn
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 7:41pm

    … And that ladies and gentlemen is why you keep a fresh pair of underwear in the glove box.

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    • sweetgold
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:14pm

      And tat ladies and gentleman is why you need to wear an appropriately adjusted seat belt.

      Report Post » sweetgold  
  • BASSPLYR
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 4:36pm

    It‘s Bush’s Fault

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  • dixiesky
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:34pm

    My 17 yr old brother died by flying out of his sunroof back in 1975. My family not once demanded the ban of sunroofs nor did we demand everyone wear seatbelts.

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    • OUTRIDER WRITER
      Posted on July 13, 2012 at 11:26am

      @DIXIESKY … Sorry for your loss. Family events never the same; missing one always remembered and mourned.

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  • MeteoricLimbo
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:11pm

    Ban sunroofs!

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    • TreeTrimmerJim
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:45pm

      Which adults are you doing the thinking for?

      First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out–
           because I was not a communist; (red shirts)
      Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out–
           because I was not a socialist; (brown shirts… night of the long knives)
      Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out–
           because I was not a trade unionist;
      Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out–
           because I was not a Jew;
      Then they came for me–
           and there was no one left to speak out for me. –Martin Niemöller, WWII era German

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    • 4xeverything
      Posted on July 13, 2012 at 11:46am

      Ban the Sun! Then there will be no need for sunroofs.

      Report Post » 4xeverything  
  • AbortObama
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:58pm

    Like a Boss.

    Report Post » AbortObama  
  • Stempy
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:23pm

    Clearly if this man was wearing his seatbelt, he would have been killed.

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    • piper60
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:35pm

      I agree, but———if he had not had a sunroof————.

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    • one.dakine.howlie
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:40pm

      How do you figure that?

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    • Al Gator
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 6:50pm

      I don’t wear seat belts because for me, it’s bad joss. (look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls ) Probably some day I will die because of that. But to date, I have been in three T bones, and NOT having the belt on meant the difference between life and death.

      My nephew liked to mimic his uncle. He never wore a belt, even though I tried real hard to make him understand his life and mine were very different.

      He was riding with his friend. They were flying low on a country road well know for that sport among youngsters. The car went out of control, went airborne, dumped my nephew into the trees and impacted a phone pole. Driver was strapped in and died instantly (passenger side was vaporized). Nephew wasn’t found for 4 hours. He was in an induced coma for almost 3 months.

      Today, I cannot convince him to wear a belt. And probably some day it may kill him. Just like me.

      Fate is strange. Seat belts are good. Statistics prove that. Joss on the other hand, will put you on a path that defies common sense.

      Oh Well….

      Report Post » Al Gator  
  • THX-1138
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:14pm

    One more, last one, promise.

    “Hello, Miss Moneypenny? Tell Q the ejection seat needs work…”

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  • THX-1138
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:05pm

    The flip was excellent but the landing was a tad off. I’ll give him an 8.3…

    Report Post » THX-1138  
    • brezzeone
      Posted on July 12, 2012 at 6:46pm

      now thats funny

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    • OUTRIDER WRITER
      Posted on July 13, 2012 at 11:37am

      @THX-1138 … Too funny. I needed this laugh today when nothing is going right, I’ve still got half a day of work left, the cat needs a trip to the vet, the dog needs to remember she’s supposed to be housebroken, the battery in the truck died, the heat of last week caused a 1/4-inch crack in the top of my dashboard, and Friday the 13th is not yet over. Humor is the engine that causes mankind to keep it all in perspective.
      …
      I feel better already.

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  • DarthMims
    Posted on July 12, 2012 at 1:55pm

    I like how he fixes his shirt and walks off like “I meant to do that.”

    Report Post » DarthMims  

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