Update: Driver Behind Shocking Car Crash Vid Says It’s Real
- Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:34pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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A picture taken by Cobb and sent to the auto website Jalopnik.
This morning’s viral video of an unbelievable highway car accident has sparked quite a debate. The video shows what appears to be a 2×4 slamming through the windshield of a car. Initially, we wondered if it was fake, and explained why. You weighed in, too. As of publish time, over 66 percent of Blaze readers agreed. Turns out, it’s real.
The Wendy Cobb we couldn’t find earlier this morning surfaced on the auto website Jalopnik and told her story. According to her, she had her cell phone camera out to film, and then report, two trucks playing “cat and mouse.” But what the 40-year-old in Shelby, NC captured was much more incredible. She explains to Jalopnik:
The 2×4 was in the road, along with several others, but when the truck in front of me hit it, and then his trailer hit it, it just propelled it into me. I don‘t know why I didn’t scream or cuss or cry, I guess just pure shock, I could barely form words to call 911. But I most definitely know how lucky I was. Damage was mostly the hood and windshield, again, very lucky.
Jalopnik confirmed her story with the local police.
Cobb also told her story to the “Today” show this morning, and answered critics who say the video is fake:
Cobb said the police were stunned, with one of the officers saying, “You realize you almost filmed your own death?” Wow.
They say almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. Apparently, it also counts if you’re Wendy Cobb and you film, as Jalopnik says, “the scariest car crash ever caught on video.”
Read the entire report from Jalopnik.
(H/T: Cobb’s sister, Stacey)
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Comments (102)
TeaParty2012
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:46pmIt is a hoax. Look at the picture. There are more than one impact points on the windsheild. In order for an object of that length to penetrate the windsheild it would have had to have done it in a single impact. This shows us that the windsheild may have been broken before the plank was inserted…… Definatly a hoax.
Report Post »CorePatriot
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:39pmLucky Lady
Report Post »steverocknroll
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:38pmSeveral years back, My wife, my son, a friend of his and I were on a family vacation. As we were driving our rental car south down I-17, just outside of Flagstaff, I heard a sound from the back seat of the car. I asked the 2 kids if they’d opened a window (it was summer in AZ – obviously the car’s AC was on!). When I glanced into the rear-view mirror, I saw my son and his friend frantically grabbing stuff off the back deck. Moments later, the rear window of the car was 20′ up in the air and landed, intact, in the middle of the interstate! I pulled over and as I was backing up to retrieve the window, an 18-wheeler came barreling down the highway and, as my son said, aimed straight for the window. Moments later, that windscreen had been reduced to dust.
It’s kind of funny to think back on it now, but we were pretty freaked out at the time.
Report Post »NC
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:37pm@mackycat…you really should red the story/article before asking question answered there-in.
NC (posted earlier I voted hoax)
Report Post »Catfish
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:34pmThis is world news, is this all they can find to report, who cares, How many got killed in car wrecks today and who reports it. somebody got a busted windshield (Real News)
Report Post »Tmwatz
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:26pmThat didn’t look fake. Watch it. You can see where the board is on the road and then gets flicked up. Very scary!
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:25pmShe is an idiot.
Report Post »She is tailgating 2 trucks “playing cat and mouse”.
She deserves several fines.
Because of her participation, the real luck is that no one else on the highway was killed. What the helll is wrong with the ‘shocked’ policemen?
Itoldutheywerecommies
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:29pmTell me, if she was given a FINE as you so dearly want, WHO IS THE VICTIM in the “supposed” crime she is guilty of.
Quit being a nanny stater and leave the people alone!
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:36pmWho is the victim when you run a red light or drive home drunk? She has to SLAM ON HER BRAKES going 70 mph down the highway (You don’t find trucks jockeying for position while going the speed limit) ! That could have killed a van load of kids if they happened to be on the Highway tailgating her.
You think she had no part in this? She was filming the other lane while driving 2 trucks and trailers down the highway.
Report Post »She’s a moron. She deserves at least 3 tickets. She could have killed many.
Catamit
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 4:27pmBrite-Glass has an epoxy that’ll fix that crack right up.
Report Post »David, the Constitutional Libertarian
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 5:03pmYes, I forgot, thought crime and potential for a crime is NOW CRIME.
By the way, Ghandi was NOT a Republican, he was a Libertarian that believes in the freedom of one‘s body and one’s soul.
I think if he saw my write up of a Constitutional Libertarian, he would of become one. Society does need limits to freedom but not at the cost of one’s own freedom.
Do not get me wrong, I believe people that cause harm to other’s committing actions like you describe need to be punished, just not punished when NO CRIME WAS COMMITTED.
A CRIME REQUIRES a PERSON (human being) be harmed in some way. You know STANDING. The STATE (government) does NOT HAVE STANDING if no one is harmed. The STATE is not a human being.
So quit attempting to equating that the STATE is a human being.
Or are you one of those Cognitive Dissonant Republicans? You know, having TWO POLAR OPPOSITE BELIEFS IN ONE MIND? Tell me, do you believe the STATE can force you to purchase health insurance? If you do not, QUIT BEING A HYPOCRITE!
Report Post »TheBees
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 5:19pmGhandi, shut the hell up! You’re a stupid ass!
Report Post »Itoldutheywerecommies
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:25pmI was once driving down highway 3 in E. St Louis while going to college. Bumper to bumper traveling at 55 MPH. Four lane highway divided by a turn lane. When all of a sudden a semi tire from the opposite came flying between the two lanes on my side of the highway. Have no idea where it came from or if it caused an accident. Talk about freaky.
Report Post »entropy
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:20pmPlease. Who gives a flying frick? The country is going down the drain and these morons in the media are trying anything to distract us including with this crap. What scum.
Report Post »Itoldutheywerecommies
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:27pmLighten up entropy. If you know anything about entropy, the more you try and control chaos, the more you only speed up the entropic outcome.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Yeats
Report Post »arx
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 8:41pmAgreed entropy, but what can we do but b&tch, vote, and distract ourselves? My wife says I should steer clear of news and politics altogether because I do too much of the first…
Report Post »mackycat
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:19pmShe was driving too close the truck in front of her for the speed they were going. She should have received a ticket for that when she showed the video to the police as she said she did. One car length for every 10 mph is what I learned. I say she was doing about 50, but she was within two car lengths. And just why was she recording video at the time? And what was that white plate under her speedo?
Report Post »Scaz
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 4:22pmCompletely agree with you.
I‘m glad she’s OK, but she should not have been drinving while filming. That’s way more distracting than talking on a cell phone. And if she hadn’t been following so close (remember the 2 second rule), she would not have been hit by that board.
Report Post »mackycat
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 6:05pmor at least she might have had a *chance* to avoid it.
Report Post »TheWatcher
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:15pmLife and death are often separated by inches, seconds or small choices. Gives one something to think on when we think of eternity.
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jedi.kep
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:13pmI knew it! I voted hoax and sure nuf…it’s real! (for the moment)
Report Post »marine249
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:03pmdid someone check his her undies??
Report Post »rumple
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:53pmIt looks real to me. The rear wheel appears to go over the end of the wooden stick and that propelled the stick into the oncoming car (as the oncoming car was travelling forward).
Report Post »RollyBones
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:53pmI had a ‘Gator’ as we call them (Giant piece of truck tire cap) come through my windshield a few years back. It does happen and it scares the beejeesus out of you when it does!!
Rolly
Report Post »TheObserver
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:50pmI find it funny that Youtube has shut down the original video an hour ago, and the only way to see it is through NBC’s “The Today Show”. Maybe Ms. Cobb was found out as a fake and panicked? Who knows?
Report Post »meluvdeals
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:11pmActually youtube probably shut down the guy who reposted HER video. This link is the original video. She reported him for reposting the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOhgMAOrp0c
Report Post »jdog777
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:47pmunbelievable. That thing came in with a lot of velocity.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 8:44pmIf she had a angel at her side………it got hit with a 2×4
Report Post »NYmike11
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:47pmTucks playing cat and mouse – ok, I can take that as a reason to film a mundane trip down a highway while driving – maybe
Report Post »AnnM.#1
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:45pmDid the Police issue her a summones for using a handheld device while driving? You know how dangerous that is.
Report Post »sickdog
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:45pmI guess it’s time to outlaw 2×4s.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:49pmWhen 2X4s are outlawed, only outlaws will have 2X4s.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:10pmGonzo you’re going to drive me to drink some day! Cheers!
Report Post »parra5143
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:28pmDon’t forget banning in-laws to. Then only outlaws will be inlaws.
Report Post »nacilbuper
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:44pmWe will see miracles…
Report Post »Scaz
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 4:23pmLol.
Report Post »hochnessmonster
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:43pmAmazing…That guy stayed calm!
Report Post »THREE LEFTS
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:42pmi called it…….
Report Post »EnoughBS
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:41pmWhy was she filming and driving??
Report Post »hsimmons45
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:45pmEnoughBS
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:41pm
Why was she filming and driving??
lol @ the Blaze posters reading comprehension skills.
Report Post »kazuma2448
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:52pmMy thoughts too
Report Post »Kalshion
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:07pmBecause both trucks were playing a game of cat and mouse, so she was filming them to report.
Report Post »cranberry
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 4:49pmOMG ENOUGHBS, filming and driving, YES, to catch illegal activity. S ometimes it’s ok. loosen up a bit. if there weren’t cameras on cell phones a LOT of criminals would be roaming free. And of course that is just my opinion, but I was one of the ones earlier today who said the board thru the car was real. Sometimes you can just tell.
Report Post »bobodu
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 7:03pmIt’s the Muslim Brotherhood !!!
Report Post »They are creating a caliphate here using wood. I heard it on Glenn Beck… so it must be true.
arx
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 8:38pmBobodu the only wood besides the 2x is between your ears
Report Post »EnoughBS
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 8:38pmokay YES I read that… thank you people. I didn’t know this was actually credible in filing a report. It’s not like filming a fight or a robbery. I just happened to find it ironic- you film with your phone to acquire evidence.. at the same time putting yourself at a 70mph risk to others.
JUST saying..
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:39pmFooled me. I thought it was a hoax!
Glad she’s okay.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:45pmSamehere, glad he is alright.
Report Post »arx
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:48pmIt‘s great she wasn’t hurt. I watched the video a half dozen times earlier, right at the point where the board comes off the road. I couldn’t see it laying on the road before the tire hit it, but I couldn’t exclude it being there either.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:58pmI have seen so many things “fall” off trucks and such going up and down highways that I don’t doubt that it happened … once the first day of a trip we had almost the same thing happen .. then the tire blew out on the truck in front of us .. and then we had to “duck” between barricades when an emergency vehicle needed to get through a construction zone. I was starting to wonder if the whole trip would be like that .. but after the first day everything went smoothly. Please if you are carrying things in the back of a vehicle make CERTAIN it can’t “fall” off or out.
Her guardian angel did a good job! Thank God she wasn’t killed.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:05pmha ha ha my only comment on the previous post was “real” :)
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:06pmWow, talk about being in the right place at the right time.
Report Post »I couldn’t say, one way or the other, whether it was fake or not.
I’m glad Ms. Cobb is okay.
missionarydad
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:07pmYou can never be careful enough while driving I have come across some big objects in the road, one time driving through Atlanta at night I was following traffic and the car ahead of me all of a sudden swerved and I struck a deer before I had any time to react as the car ahead had the danger completely obstructed from my view if I would have swerved I would have sideswiped another car so had no choice but to run over the deer which was lying in the road having just been hit by another car.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:13pmIt’s also a good thing nobody hit her from behind. She should have been driving in the right lane and only in the left lane to pass. I sure wish I had videos of many of the crashes I had. It would have helped me not get tickets in some of them, because the police don’t believe your story.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:13pmEven more strange is what happened to my in-laws. My husband bought his father a car (better looking than their trusty rusty Buick), and they were out riding in it. A truck in front of them was hauling off pieces of a house that had been demolished when wind got under a section of a gable and sent it airborne — into the windshield and through the car! My father-in-law slammed on brakes, throwing my mother-in-law forward. She was short and was not wearing a seatbelt. The gable cleared her head, leaving only scratches. The grandmother in the back seat was thrown into the back floorboard, and the gable cleared her head, too, before it knocked out the rear windshield.
If either of them had been wearing a seatbelt, they would have been decapitated!
Report Post »Michael61
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:16pmSaw a wheel on 18-wheeler came loose and started to jump over cars. It jumped over our car as well. That wasn’t funny.
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:24pmOK does anyone know how stupid SHE is??????? She should be ticketed for operating a camera while driving.
Showtime
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:39pm@Michael61
Report Post »Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:16pm
Saw a wheel on 18-wheeler came loose and started to jump over cars. It jumped over our car as well. That wasn’t funny.
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No, not funny at all. I‘d have had to change my britches AND the driver’s seat!
Sgt.Crust
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:59pmNow that was a close call…
Report Post »drago
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 4:30pmYup, i was wrong, wasnt fake, glad she’s ok.
Report Post »TheBees
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 5:13pmI tried to go back and watch the original and it’s already been copywrited by Wendy Cobb. I didn’t know you could copywrite something this fast, I thought it took months to get a copywrite.
Report Post »PACMAN55
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 6:19pmdid she get a ticket for being on her cell phone?
Report Post »taurus1911
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 6:35pmthat’s what you get for ratting on people tubby!
Report Post »lisalake
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 6:40pmWow–very scary. Glad she is OK! Did she get a ticket for filming while driving???
Report Post »Crowley
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 8:23pm@ Anonymous T. Irrelevant “She should have been driving in the right lane and only in the left lane to pass.”
She WAS in the left lane to pass. The problem was the truck in front of her was clogging the passing lane. That’s the reason she was filming in the first place. If people would actually read and understand the articles on this site before posting, it would save a lot of space.
Report Post »txbigfoot
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:17amShe said the video is copyrighted and its not available without hunting on down on youtube.
Report Post »Who Cares now.
Tell her to stuff it.