You know You Shouldn't be Driving When…

We have watched this video several times and still cannot find a reasonable excuse for why the driver of the Lada Niva crashed into a stopped car on the opposite side of the road.

Even if the pedestrians crossing the road surprised the driver, we can't see why she (according to the YouTube poster) didn't stop her vehicle before it hit the Mazda3.

Head past the break to watch the incident as it was recorded from a dashboard mounted camera.

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Russian Duma Speaker's Motorcade Accused for Blocking Ambulance with Dying Patient

Local and government officials abusing their power to block roads is nothing new in Russia, but the exposure of one incident that involved a dying patient in an ambulance has caused uproar in the country.

News agencies in Russia reported that a convoy of the current speaker of the Russian State Duma, Sergei Naryshkin, had police block the way of an ambulance carrying a patient in serious condition, who died before he made it to the hospital, in the town of Vsevolozhsk on Monday.

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Black Knight Hummer H2 Tune will Leave You Flabbergasted

Let's face it; the Hummer crowd has and never will be subtle with its tuning choices but there are some builds that always manage to stand out more than others - in a "sore thumb" kind of way…

As you will soon find out, there's too much to mention about the Black Knight Hummer H2, but we'll just note the Lamborghini-style scissor front and rear doors, the decorative (?) machine guns, axes and swords (yes, all in plural) and more LEDs than a Christmas tree at a KISS concert.

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Mother Straps Fuel Tank on Safety Seat, Leaves Toddler Unbuckled…

And the award for the most reckless mother of the year goes to…a Colorado woman who had her two children, a 14 year old and a toddler, sitting in the car without seatbelts but had a small gas tank strapped on the child's safety seat.

It sounds like a joke but there's photo proof as the police officer who pulled over Sandra Ramirez during a routine stop in Aurora, Colorado, on May 30, snapped a shot of what he encountered in the car for the "Click It or Ticket" campaign.

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Turning Around a Parked Car on a Flatbed Trailer is a Risky Business

To save space and transfer as many vehicles as possible, this company parked a bunch of small city cars side by side on what looks like a double decker, flatbed truck trailer.

Evidently, placing the cars this way on the truck is as difficult and dangerous as getting them out. See how this driver coped with the problem in the video after the jump.

Hat tip to Andrew for the video find!

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Max Speed Watch Brings Your Dashboard to Your Wrist

We've seen plenty of timepieces inspired by cars and/or their dashboards, but if the kind of, sort of, not-really-but, loosely reminds me of a vehicle's instruments type of watch doesn't wow you, here's an alternative proposal that may or may not suite your need for speed.

It's called the Max Speed Speedometer Car Watch (the timepiece name equivalent of Wheelsandmore...) from Gadgets and Gear and it's designed to encompass all the usual dials found on your instrument panel.

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Another Dancing Vehicle, Where Else but in Russia…

Less than two months after we showed you a strange video with a very hip-hoppy truck, a second vehicle has been spotted dancing on the roads of Russia, this time, a yellow passenger (?) van.

If you have 46 seconds to spare, the video awaits your curiosity right after the jump.

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Woman Plows Porsche 911 Turbo Into Store After She Mistook the Gas Pedal for the Brake…

Earlier this year, federal safety regulators at NHTSA released a report saying that women drivers involved in pedal misapplication crashes outnumber men by a margin of roughly 2 to 1 – and before you make a snarky remark, learn that the same study found that male drivers account for approximately 60 percent of all crashes…

We do not know if there's a corresponding study in Turkey, but this past weekend in Beşiktaş, a municipality of Istanbul, a female driver of a latest generation Porsche 911 Turbo (997) with the license plate number "34 GTA 11" mistook the gas pedal for the brake as she was turning into a gas station to fill up her sports car.

Instead of coming to a halt in front of the gas pump, the young woman hit the pedal and freed the 911 Turbo's ponies catapulting the coupe first into a parked car and then into the store behind it…

The driver and her female friend were not hurt but a gas station employee had to be taken to the hospital for minor injuries.

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The Force is Strong with this One: Darth Vader Successfully Appeals Parking Ticket

In a not so far, far away land called New York City, a man impersonating Darth Vader with a heavy-breathing Brooklyn accent was captured on film last month quibbling with a traffic cop over a parking ticket that he had received while promoting interest in Star Wars during a 5th Avenue Street fair in Brooklyn.

However, the traffic trooper completely snubbed Darth Vader...

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In Russia, Airplanes Use the Road as a Landing Strip

For the vast majority of our readers, an airplane, regardless of its size, getting ready to touch ground right in front of you on the road, would be something to be afraid of, but for this driver and his female passenger, it's just another day in Russia.

According to the poster of the video, a local villager near the city of Nizhny Novgorod owns the small monoplane. Amazingly, it is said that he frequently uses the road as a...landing strip during the summer months!

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Ford Crowd Sources Video of New Focus ST Street Racing in Key West

With specialized performance cars, it's always best to think out of the box when it comes to commercials.

Instead of a humdrum TV spot, Ford and its advertising agency came up with the bright idea of having X Games Rally gold medalist Tanner Foust and stunt driver Greg Tracy drive the 2013 Focus ST hot hatch one-on-one through the narrow streets of Florida's Key West.

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Prancing Horse gives Ferrari F458 Italia a Kick in the Fender in China

This video gives a new meaning to horsing around. While driving on a busy road in Shanghai, China, a Ferrari 458 Italia and a Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 were forced to slow down and eventually stop after a pair of horses and their riders were backing up on the street.

Fearing that the horses may hit their vehicles, the drivers of the two Italian exotic supercars decided to make use of their horns...

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