Costa Rica Zapote Rotunda Car Crash - May 2009

A May, 2009 car crash in the Costa Rica town of Zapote, a suburb of the San Jose capital. The footage was captured by a traffic-cam at the Zapote rotunda.

What you see in this video is classic Costa Rica driving with a really bad ending. Cars are lined up in a left-turn lane when a car driving in the outside lane attempts to beat another car while crossing two-lanes of traffic to make a left turn in-front of the waiting cars. As detailed in the video, the resulting crash was horrific. The car that was hit head-on was driven by a man and his new wife, both were killed instantly leaving one young child without a mother.

New Costa Rica traffic laws have been written, passed through legislation and will soon take effect in efforts to curtail this crazyness ... but without real enforcement, the desired reforms will more than likely have little effect on the culture of chaos that is currently Costa Rica's roadways.

For more information goto: http://tinyurl.com/DrivingInCostaRica -or- http://www.CostaRicaBlogger.com

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[CostaRicaBlogger]

@smood, I'm so sorry for your loss ... this is but one example of why the new Costa Rica traffic laws should not be repealed or reduced in their severity!

[smood006]

my friend died in that crash!!

[CostaRicaBlogger]

@smood006, I'm so sorry for your loss ... this is but one example of why the new Costa Rica traffic laws should not be repealed or reduced in their severity!

[NoFaschislam]

ticos drives like creazy, nobody have an insurance.

[SBarsinister]

My granmother lived near by this intersection.

[bmjf]

Costa Rica traffic police are a joke ...this kinda stuff happens everyday in Costa Rica

try driving down Ave. Central it looks like all the traffic police are set up there to prevent certain numbered plates from entering the city center...now that should save some lives but then again $10 gets you out of a ticket. If the police would issue tickets the traffic police would be the best paid public servants in the country. Did you know 70% of the roads don´t have sidewalks.

[timlandscheidt]

Does anyone know the name of the music playing?

[era2817]

Race?? hmmm!!

[uridor]

si el mae que provoco el accidente quedo vivo merece pasar el resto de la vida en la carcel

[timdawg626]

no ya tenemos q educar a nuestra gente y q empiesen a usar la logica!!!!