A Virginia officer walked away from a traffic stop with minor injuries after a teenager lost control of his car while driving over 120mph.#CNN #News #shorts
Watch this BMW spin out of control, heading directly for officer at traffic stop
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Glad he is okay and able to come to home to his family.. 🙏🏼
Yeah… the officer too. 🙏
Absolutely!!! Absolutely!!!
The chance of that happening are beyond comprehension . Fast reflex and being aware of his surroundings saved his life.
Lol ge ran the wrong way and got hit god was just looking out that pig did exactly what he shouldnt had dine akso cars can gi that fast on the highway. Anyone ever hear of the autobahn? Around a 120 or higher spees limit less accudents pigg shoul had jumped over tbe gyard rail he cant rhink in dangerous sudden situations he has no place being a cop
Honestly, luckiest thing I’ve seen…
Not too lucky when he could have easily jump over fence and be fine.
@SpartanAlphaMode Easy for you to say, from a position of uninvolved safety and hindsight. His initial reaction was instant and correct; MOVE.
Immediately pressing and violently dynamic situations don’t offer people the luxury of second-guessing their instinctive decisions. Half a second is a gulf of time between a few bruises and possibly having his spine snapped.
@Gordelpus it was a luck he could jumped safety border it would be smarter he’s literally almost got hit
At least the guy he was working on didn’t get that ticket for doing absolutely nothing
Take his license and lock him up
@mark williams I’m not gonna lock him up and throw away the key. He’s young and stupid like you were, like I was. We all need to eat a little humble pie now and again.
@BoDiggety nah, 120m/h is not silly adolescence, it’s reckless idiocy and must be punished. Also, it’s the same reason you don’t allow a serial killer back in the streets with a gun. Same stuff
@TBJ1118I disagree. People can redeem themselves and must be given the chance to try. I would’ve gone that fast routinely if I’d had a car that could’ve done it.
I’m a thousand years old now and *_still_** love driving fast*
… though these days I actually restrain myself and drive near the speed limit
In fact:
when I went to prom, my girlfriend’s dad had a Mustang GT and let us borrow it. I was 18 and being (mostly) good when a classmate came alongside us on the highway and wanted to race. I’m not proud of my self control, but at the end we were going 135.
Was it stupid? certainly. Did I deserve to lose my license? Absolutely. For life? No. These days I’m a responsible member of society. I learned from expensive mistakes and matured in the process.
Revoke his license for a year and give him a year of probation. He loses it again with any infraction.
In most other countries, the BMW driver would first be required to pay for the damages that he had incurred, and depending on if the investigative team found that he was over the speed limit (for no reasonable cause) or was under the influence of drug/alcohol, he might/might not be charged with further criminal offence.
Reckless driving is a criminal violation in, I believe, all 50 states in the U.S. Also, I’m not 100% certain but I believe all or nearly all states implement a points system against your license – the younger you are, the fewer points you have before your license is revoked or suspended. That being the case, in most states, an accident like this would be pretty much guaranteed to be a loss of driver’s license for at least several months, and potentially a year or longer if anyone were injured. Add to that the potential for jail sentence, usually significant fines (dependent on injuries), a permanent criminal record standing in the way of everything you thought your future was going to be, etc. There’s no such thing as a light sentence for a minor driving over 100 MPH and crashing into a stopped police officer, vehicle, and member of the public being detained by that police officer. You’d be hard pressed to get away with that even if your dad were the governor in a backward, corrupt state.
But no, they shouldn’t lose their license forever, or for any unreasonable time. This is _not_ the same as letting a serial killer out with a gun. Serial killers are typically clinical psychopaths, meaning they have a measurable neurological deficiency that prevents them from having a conscience or caring about right and wrong – it’s not treatable and can’t be fixed or “psychologised” out of them. They’re born with it and they’ll die with it, and once they’ve demonstrated that they’ll kill people on purpose, multiple times, it’s throw away the key time. However, a teenager driving recklessly is in most cases a temporary condition because their brain isn’t fully developed and they’re not neurologically capable of associating poor choices with consequences to varying degrees (and frankly, some of them have psychopath parents who won’t teach them, either, so the deck is stacked against them to fake it until their brain is fully developed). But for the vast majority of them, they are not also clinical psychopaths with a deficient brain, so as they grow older and make mistakes, they learn from those mistakes and they learn why they’re mistakes and they stop doing stupid things like what this kid did.
When you over-punish people for simple mistakes that a significant number of other people make, you destroy justice, and as they grow up and their brains develop, all you wind up teaching them is that you don’t respect them and you don’t care about them, so why should they respect or care about you or anything or anyone you care about? All you do is create enemies and disincentivize growing up, maturing, and becoming a contributing member of society. What you do is make the world a worse place for all of us, not just for them and not just for yourself. It’s short-sighted and foolhardy. I’d rather live in a world run by more mature, well-developed people, were I have a greater chance of becoming a more mature, well-developed person myself, and where you do too. Because then we can make each other’s lives better, instead of worse.
17 yrs old and driving a BMW. Daddy’s money will get him out of trouble and a new car on where he will definitely do something like this again. Can everyone involved get lucky twice?
Bmws you can yet for under 10 grand, you don’t need daddys money to buy one lmao
@04srt4champ what are you talking about? Those cars are minimum $40k. Or are you talking about the scrub versions?
@sasab a 10 year old 3 Series or 5 Series (still looks decently nice) will run you $10k-$15k. A kid with a part time could likely “afford” that $300 payment.
Oh my God!! It’s a blessing that the driver of the parked car and the officer didn’t get killed. That teen needs to have his license revoked for a minimum of 5 years…and the BMW was probably his parents car.
Yeah I doubt a 17 year old bought his own BMW
Daddy’s money, of course
So lucky that he still has his legs.
Holy crap that cop must have heard the angels singing for a second, he was so close.
That cop is SO lucky to be alive!
Satan gave him knowledge
What he “heard” were screeches of tires careening sideways down the road towards him leaving a trail of smoke. It’s all here in the video. 😂
This policeman is so incredibly lucky to have survived this!! So thankful for him!
Lucky and quick-witted.
Now that’s divine intervention
No, it’s called being aware of your surroundings.
@Jotunheim No. It’s called divine intervention. Who do you think gave him the power to be aware of his surroundings?
Don’t be an atheist.
Shocked the kid didn’t flip that bmw, Thank God everyone survived. Cops quick action def saved him from serious injuries
This is what happens when you give a 17 yo KID a BMW. Take his damn license away until he’s 21.
youre assuming he took the vehicle with consent. And we all know what 17 yo are like around a powerful bmw car.
@mark so charge him with GTA on top of taking his license.
Take his license away until he’s twenty-five years old! 120 miles an hour! That’s so stupid!
Community work until 21…license until 30 if at all.
That wasn’t training and experience, that was pure luck.
@David AspinallYou can’t conduct a traffic stop from the other side of the crash barrier. That’s like saying training would have him sitting in his living room at home, safe and sound and not on the street being a police officer. Some things are about measured risk vs. reward.
@babybirdhome I didn’t say “during the stop.”
He was clearly capable of stepping over it faster than he ran away.
@Juho Laitakari the training is wrong he got hit he was dumb guard rail is safety. I can think quick without training either training us bad ir he us dumb
@babybirdhome you are reaching just take the L and keep your dignity
Man moved to the exact spot to have literally nothing happen to him. Amazing
The “exact spot” was actually a short hop over the guard rail. The officer took the scenic route and STILL got hit (in case you missed it). Although with a build like THAT he never stood a chance hopping over any rail. At least he knew his limits. I’ll give him THAT! 😂
@Hugo H. ✅
A 17yr old with a beamer. That was your first mistake. Before becoming a lab tech my husband was a body man at a repair shop. The business always boomed after it rained and during the summer when kids were off from school. One car came in totaled with scalp still in the windshield. The teen was driving a Porsche and was changing the radio station when they wrapped the car around a tree. All the stories similar. Distracted driving or speeding. Teen brains are smooth. And without proper regulation from the parents, this can happen. Especially when you buy them a death bullet as a first car. My kids are 21 & 24. They got a freaking kia when they started working at the lab with dad. Still have it and they love it so much they don’t want to trade it in. Start small. Grind responsibility into your kids. Teach them they are literally driving a death trap. Because once they become complacent, cocky and lose respect for the machine they are privileged to operate – we all lose.
Well said.
Agreed, however, this is not the reality of American culture. I do highly admire you for the way you guided your children along. I’m guessing you are an immigrant. Most Americans idea of investing in their kids is giving them that bmw. It’s what they want anyways.
@Bhing I didnt give my children any cars. They had to get a part time job, full time summer job, and buy their own used beater car. I did however pay to get the vehicle registered, and tagged.
He actually ran the wrong direction
That fricken kid driving that other car should have his license revoked forever. 🙏
Teens license should be immediately suspended for two years minimum.