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  • Absolutely maximum levels of schadenfreude here.

  • Looks like there is insufficient warning about it being a buses only lane guarded by bollards. When you have that many incidents, it is always a sign of poor design.

  • @bkw140 So perhaps you can explain the woman who drives up to them in the first incidence, backs away, and then tries to tailgate the bus through the bollards? Or the excessive speed used by all the people trying to get through this 'poorly designed' piece of road.

  • Serves them right.

  • i hope they dont bring these to north america or drivers are gunna hate it

  • Soo stupid people...

  • Ermmm, if you look to the right of the first one (0.14) you can actually fit a car through the side of the first bollard and on the pavement - maybe not if your a woman though.

  • 1:38 seatbelt maybe?

  • a motorcycle could get through propbably

  • hahahaha TWATS

  • You know, one day somebody will get through them.

  • Er, are the cause... (they ARE doubly idiotic though.)

  • i love how the bus drives off at 0:41 while the dude is about to step off it. real safe.

  • car fuckers-even with steel bollards -they still think they own cities

  • What if an emergency vehicle is trying to get through, it's not a bus, the vehicle is trying to get to a fire. It slams into the bollard at 60 mph. What if a visitor to Manchester is driving, doesn't recognize the bollards will be there. He slams into the bollard at 15 mph. I am going to be a mechanical engineer when I get out of college and will campaign night and day to have bollards removed from roadways.

    June 12, 2011 2:37 am

  • @whattheheck1000 Speaking of sub-40 IQs, if you'd read past the first page of comments you'd know that emergency vehicles can also lower the bollards.

    And I'd have more sympathy for your "mistakes" position were it not for the fact that all the examples in this video were CLEARLY deliberate attempts to beat the bollards. Some people think the rules of the road don't apply to them, so the best you can do is remind them the laws of physics still apply.

  • @magney What if they forget to lower them? In the heat of rushing to a call, they may forget. Now you have an emergency vehicle totaled, its occupants hurt. And as for the "deliberate attempts", they make the best video examples. The people that have forgotten they were there often hit at slower speeds, making it not as entertaining on video.

    June 13, 2011 6:13 pm

  • @whattheheck1000 I see you are a part of the "paranoid someone will delete my comments" club.

  • @balthcat Huh?

    June 24, 2011 4:35 am

  • @whattheheck1000 Presumably the same device which signals the bollards to drop will be provided to emergency vehicles. This is why you will be a mechanical engineer, and not a civil engineer.

  • @balthcat People forget things. It's stressful work to drive an emergency vehicle to a call, and a vehicle driver may well forget about a bollard - especially a NEWLY PLACED one - or merely forget to lower it. Humans make mistakes. I don't feel comfortable with a RIGID OBJECT in a ROAD that comes up and can cause crashes that INJURE people. I understand the point of the bollards, but it's a bit like fining someone 10,000 pounds for speeding in some instances.

    June 24, 2011 4:40 am

  • @whattheheck1000 Once again you demonstrate you aren't going to be a civil engineer by completely missing the point that they're automatic. The bus and emergency vehicles presumably lower and raise them by proximity. So yes, humans make mistakes, and even machines break down, but if people weren't *speeding violently* they wouldn't have a problem. ps: No one cares to see what time you posted...

  • @balthcat I just don't know how a MACHINE that makes people AUTOMATICALLY CRASH for violating traffic laws is safe. I'm all for more police, heavier fines, speed cameras, that kind of thing. But why make 100% of speeders crash when only a small fraction (albeit a larger amount than law abiders) are going to crash in the next year? I just don't know how these machines have lasted 5+ years without protests that led to their removal.

    June 24, 2011 6:16 pm

  • @whattheheck1000 This is equivalent to a bridge which lifts to allow boats to pass, and the cars which are damaged are analogous to some complete and utter git deciding to try to race across before it parts, and then flying into the river. The bollards do not cause the accident, the idiots who are *attempting to beat them* are the idiots. It's not 100% of speeders, it's 100% of people who *try to race the bollard*. That is: 100% idiots. Idiots have accidents WITHOUT HELP.

  • @whattheheck1000 the other guy is right, the vehicles have transmitters that automatically lower the bollards, so they are ace. end of story. tough luck to the clowns who didnt see the bright flashing the no entry signs and even tougher luck to those who intentionally ignored them to try to get through.

  • You guys that agree with this bollard idea are freaking dumber than rocks - did you all get full frontal lobotomies designed to decrease your IQ to 40? These bollards are DANGEROUS. People are going to make mistakes, and it's not a bollard's job to cause a crash that will cause thousands of pounds of damage to your car and possibly injure you.

    June 12, 2011 2:31 am

  • @whattheheck1000 When I first watched the vid I smiled and thought, 'nicer one, idiots get what they deserve'.

    But of course you are right, causing thousands in damage and injuring people is never acceptable.

  • heres a tip: buy a motorcycle xD

  • Haha, oh dear, comedy genius. I don't understand how people don't find this funny.

  • Hope these guys are made to pay for damage done to the bollards. :')

  • @rcselby1 the bollards are fine.

  • Oh, bollards.

  • Brits will accept anything. Orwellian nanny state full of completely domesticated people that leave the state shit all over them.

  • @Winstonsees

    Not quite, Winston... Rules of the road are actually there to try and prevent people being wiped out by the kind of idiots you see in this video.

  • 1:38 lovin the head-smash on the windscreen. I bet he wears a seatbelt every day now!

  • fuck salt

  • Why the hell do they speed just after a truck pulls in? Idiots. -_-

  • Ugh... Europe sucks.

  • @tensider1 its not Europe, as Europe hating Englishmans like to say, they have never been a part of Europe, they are an island, for them we are a pain in the ass, so please dont call UK Europe

  • @Ondro1112 Grow up

  • Those bollards are fantastic and have saved hundreds of lives from reckless dangerous motorists. That stupid woman with her kid in the backseat should have her child taken away by child protective services for reckless endangerment. I would pay good money for a DVD with an hour worth of these idiots crashing into bollards, maybe the proceeds from the DVD can go to pay for more of these bollards to be installed elsewhere.

  • @jonw999999 Manchester, as in the United Kingdom. The man was driving.

  • @jonw999999 yeah but cool your jets bro, u must have some life going on youtube posting comments like this. you must get no attention because you have to voice your opinion on here where everyone thinks you're an idiot :D

  • @jonw999999 haha. i think you mean 'stupid man'. cuz the man was driving the car. not the woman. right side steering wheel remember.

  • @jonw999999 Hate to mention it here but it looks as though the man was driving, the woman was simply the passenger. It was foolish nonetheless.

  • I never tire of seeing these selfish idiots stopped in their tracks.

  • What kind of prick drives like that with his kids in the car?

  • 1:38 Remember, always wear a seatbelt ! :) 

  • @kubiczek20 Nice pick, I didn't even see the impact against the windshield.

  • @zorb, They go down for emergency vehicles, they have the same system in as the bus to allow them access.

  • My heart goes out to the poor person who looses their life when an emergency vehicle travelling behind a bus hits one of these and can't reach where they need to be.

  • @zorb2000, They go down for emergency vehicles, they have the same system in as the bus to allow them access.

  • lol @ all the people blaming the poles. Every person who smashed into these KNEW they were there and tried to RACE over them. They deserved to get stuck on them.

    No one ever wants to take responsibility for their own stupidity.

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  • It clearly states on the signs on approach saying bollards will rise from the ground. They should not be driving if they cant read!these people are the cause of rising insurance premiums every year. Why should i pay extra cause some fanny wants to chance his luck?The arrogance of some folk on the roads is bad and it makes me laugh when arrogance turns into embarrassment!

  • 1:39 it looks like the last one didn't get a lot of damage the tires hit the bollard but the other good luck paying for those damage

  • @Tonganhacker yes but he breakes the fucking window with his head!! no seatbelts? wrong!!

  • Amazed how many of these guys, apart from the obvious stupidity demonstrated, weren't wearing their seat belts. The white van man at the end nearly went out the window! Seriously...

  • Car rape!

    My favourite is the Jerk in the Merc, loved the way his missus grabbed the baby and walked off!

  • Cool

  • What could go wrong? How about a tow truck going through one of these?

    search youtube for "Hilarious Tow Truck Security Barrier Accident"

    The engineer who designed these should consider a new career, possibly in one where people's lives are not at stake.

  • fucking technology

  • lol @ 1:05 airbag deployment :P

  • stupid people they all put there wipers on fast lol

  • the passenger in the last white van smashed his head on the glass!

  • do you have to pay toll to pass or are those for public transit lanes

  • @hallmonitor98 :  They're for public transport and service vehicles only.

  • Was Mr Bean driving

  • lol y they even try to go throught there so dumb

  • At 42secs the bus starts moving just before someone gets off!! - Bus driver will get rocket if his company sees this!

  • The last guy smashes his head on the windsscreen haha

  • i love the music it so funny

  • lol

  • in the very last one, does the passengers' head hit the transits' windscreen?

    It looks like you can see it smash at 1:39 !!!!

  • hahaha I hope they ended up in courtas well!

  • genius!

  • lol I like the choice in music you put. Silly drivers. =p

  • That silver car at the beginning tries twice to get through.

  • That guy in the black SUV doesn't even turn off his freakin' car after he crashes!

  • You can see the airbag pop out in the black SUV, and then the driver walks out and scratches his head.

  • Huh? I thought the last two vans were both buses, but one of the buses got caught!

  • Another 4x4 arsehole,Fail

  • wow these people suck. haha I love all of these comments... wish I were british

  • LoL, instant karma

  • 1:39 dude hits windscreen with forehead... good work!

  • Great to see selfish, moronic drivers get their comeuppance:)

  • good but how did the royle mail van get pass

  • Obviously authorized vehicles have a button or a trigger that will allow the bollards to lower for them.

  • A device that slashes the tires would be safer and just as effective. Plus less damage to the cars.

  • not as effective (these can stop a 15 ton truck at 50 mph) but much safer

  • Well, you can still drive a car with flat tires so it wouldn't stop the car in that exact position and could possibly roll over to someone OR if in speed, it could make the car lose control.

  • but much less fun

  • great video, but i still hate that twat in the 4x4 for doing that with bloody kids in the car. Dickhead.

  • Yeah, he kinda seems to accelerate when he sees the posts coming up ;P

    what an a-hole.

  • Oh and not to mention that there's a baby in a damn stroller right next to the road, where the cars back end kinda bounces.

    Responsible, MUCH.

  • Oh gosh, I wish they had a live feed on this camera! Funniest video I have watched in ages, just proves that they do give idiots driving licenses

  • the airbag just oppened before the crash contact.. wow

  • couldnt you just ride a moter cycle through

  • True

  • 0:42 the bus driver drove off b4 the passenger got off the buss

  • sauhsuuasuashusau

    Se fufu! Que teimosia da galera também neh!

    Nacerta o local só é permitido para veículos de grande porte, mas como tem sempre uns querendo bancar os espertos!

    Mas a suspensão do carro é baratinha, não dá pra preocupar! xD

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  • Not only does the guy in the white van smash his front end but breaks the windshield with head. An expensive and painful lesson for sure.

  • UK vehicles have the driver on the right of the vehicle. Perhaps the passenger didn't have their seat belt on.

  • Right you are. I overlooked that.

  • the last guy needs a helmet :D

  • why tf they do this kind of shit?

  • hahahahha lol

  • BRAVO!!!!!!!!

  • ...the last guy's an idiot. his vehicle was heavy enough to get through!

  • haw haw , no cutting corners

    and the guy in the black truck.........shame ho ho ho

  • you need restrictions like that or the whole place will grind to a halt!!its ignorant drivers like that guy in the honda who will think nothing of parking in a disabled bay.hope his car was seriously damaged prick

  • @doyougototowndriver what fucking honda???

  • @doyougototowndriver ...and causing a wreck doesn't bring things to a halt? My, aren't you the statist shill? If I were driving in the UK the last thing I would expect would be a fucking pipe to come shooting out of the road, causing me to wreck my vehicle. Stupid Brits think that if they just have enough rules, life will be peachy. It's headed for 1984 over there.

  • Did you see that honda though? he just raced through , with no regard for any pedestrians especially for that child in the pushchair , and it nearly bounced back onto the pram.... that man should be charged with dangerous driving and wearing no seat belt!!! what a grade A muppet!!!

  • Yeah, I saw that. If I'd been the person with the pushchair I would have punched the idiot out

  • GrandPrix55, you're totally wrong... i have to work in city centres for my job. The majority of times i have pay to park, walk across the city centre with my tools and things, so what makes them above everyone else? like most people, i hate car restrictions in city centres .

  • You know dude, probably cost 80 grand to put these systems in place... no wait... think of the pen pushers in the council working on it too, meeting about it, finalising it... we could be looking at a 300 grand bill for these...

    Youd think theyd just give somone a job in an open/close barrier booth.

  • That bloke should've been wearing a seat belt at 1:40...Boy that's gotta hurt...!!!

  • These dickheads deserve everything they get, there are brightly lit signs clearly saying NO ENTRY. Fools, they have absolutely no excuse except stupidity and pure ignorance.

  • serves the idiots right! i wish that twat in the 4x4 broke his fuckin neck for endangering his baby like that, moron. damn right tne council should sue them for damage to the bollards

  • 1:40 no seatbelt!!!

  • I assume, of course, that if the twonks driving the Chelsea Tractor and white van put in insurance claims, their insurance companies told them where they could stick said claims.

  • Did the 4wd passengers have seat beats on cause they hit there heads on something!!!!

  • nice job endangering your kids you freakin morons

  • The kids on the street, or the kids in the car?

  • this was just on top gear

  • Got to love the windshield wippers :)

  • i thought the second one was funny until they pulled kids out the car. Utter pratts.

  • stupid wankers

  • it´´s veryu funy!

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  • shame that they have now got rid of the bollards

  • they havent got rid of the bollards,there are still vehicles being impaled from time to time,the council are considering suing the drivers with the cost of repairing the bollards now.

  • @crystaltipps04 any cost of repair to the bollards should be covered by the insurance on the vehicle which caused the damage.

  • @crystaltipps04 Suing is a disgusting, Vile act.

  • they should switch those for swords that would cut cars in 2 pieces!

  • his head smashes the window 1:39

  • ha ha the guy in red in the second car hurt his head do you think it knocked any sense in to him?

    no, me neither!

  • LOL great.

  • hahah - brilliant! Nice jaunty music too

  • *cheesy German accent* IT COMES UP FROM ZE GROUND...AND IT PUNISHES ZEM!!!

  • Dumbasses! XD

  • The dude in the white van at the end of the clip cracks his head off the windshield !, look carefully.

  • #1 and 3, epic fail, lols, etc.

    #2 (black 4x4), utterly irresponsible - he had a child in the car! Idiot *grr*

  • HAHAHAHA

  • check out all that gas from the airbags coming from that suv after they open the doors...crack a window

  • haha stupid drivers, teaches them, theres soooo many signs up around these bollards warning that they raise after buses, its totally their fault and they diserve it

  • ur such a joker lol

  • I really do wish I knew what you were going on about.

  • Also I should point out that on a road, if ten thousand cars pass over each set every day, and these things were everywhere, the likelihood at one of them malfunctioning while a car goes over them at speed is dramatically increased, and the results could be very serious. At least when a traffic light shorts out, it doesn't smash into you.

  • if, if, if. they're only in bus lanes. what the hell are you talking about? ldpthejimmy already explained what i was going to say.

  • what for...

    why need it bollard for

  • I don't know about in good ole England, but if that happened here in the States,..you can bet, a huuuge lawsuit !! Agreed?

  • no, these bollards prevent cars from going into bus and taxi lanes. if a car tries to drive over them, own damn fault. They wouldnt even have a case.

  • They're a stupid invention, they potentially cause a lot of damage to vehicles. Just a stupid local authority and a few uneducated pricks trying to be different.

  • bet you love driving your car through busy town centres endangering pedestrians then

  • That little car could have just drove up on the curb a little and got around with no problem

  • Maybe because it's a woman?

  • well duhhhh!!!!

  • i dont think they were trying to sneak. They are probably unfamiliar with the road, and how were they supposed to know? By the time the poles were above ground level, they were already out of vision of the driver

  • if you had a motercyikle you wouldent have to worry about that becuse you can ride inbetween them

  • that has to be the best job ever getting to destroy someones car and ruining there day i want to do that

  • wow these people are retarded and stupid!!!!.....especially the dumb moron in the jeep...those ballards are there for a reason dumbass...

  • If you aimed just right you could let the bollards take the front wheels up and jump over, or just buy a decommissioned tank, get out and laugh while the guy in the control room slowly stops smiling

  • lmfao, win!

    xD

  • Worst invention in the world.

  • Designed with malice and spite - have a smug laugh while you can from the safety of your control room because this mentality gets reflected back into our society and for sure will smack you back in your smug faces - a society to be ashamed of

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