One more to add to our galleries of Automotive FAIL!(Hat tip to Alexhohio!)

While there was some controversy over the legitimacy of the Insurance Institute's 50th anniversary crash test, it's hard to argue that today's cars are exactly what the crash test attempted to show — safer in a collision. During Crash Week we looked at all sorts of crashes, some of which engineers could plan for, some not, and we took a look at the history of auto safety itself. As Crash Week continued, it became apparent that just because today's cars are safer doesn't mean the safety argument is over.

After all, Crash Week was also our Guide To Bad Driving, and with our World Atlas of Bad Driving we saw, time and time again, that there is no way to eliminate crashes brought on by plain old stupid driving. Therefore, Jalopnik continues to advocate thorough and continued driver education — as well as just being calm, being continuously aware of traffic and your car and of course, hanging up the damn phone while you drive. Guidelines which, of course, we know all our faithful readers adhere to, right? Because if Crash Week has reinforced just one of our beliefs, it's that it's always the other guy.

In case you missed any of Jalopnik's Crash Week, here it all is:

• Jalopnik Crash Week Begins: 1959 Chevy Vs. 2009 Chevy
• Abandoned Seaplane At Critical Intersection Of Planelopnik, Crash Week
• Do Not Read and Drive
• Yes, The IIHS-Crashed '59 Chevy Had An Engine
• Ten Most Confusing Google Street View Accidents
• Corvette ZHZ Survives Crash Week... For Now
• World Atlas Of Bad Driving: Europe
• McLaren SLR Crashes, Destroys Surrounding Cars In Ferrari Street Race
• How Police Investigate A Car Crash Scene Safely
• Backwards Truck Paint Job Would Make Anyone Slow Down
• School Bus Plunges Into Pond With Swim Team On Board
• Head-On Crash Caught On Dash Cam
• Romanian Drivers Get Another Kind Of Urine Test
• Child Safety Has Come A Long Way, Baby
• World Atlas Of Bad Driving: Asia
• Little Girl Miraculously Survives Terrifying Crash In Washington
• World's Fastest Super Car Crashes
• World Atlas Of Bad Driving: The Middle East
• Volvo Smashing Electric Cars To Test Next Gen Safety
• Dublin's Nominee For Worst Driver, Luckiest Pedestrian
• What Car Makes You Feel Safe?
• From Benz To Bumpers: A Brief History Of Auto Safety
• EXCLUSIVE: The Most Spectacular WRC Crashes ...In HD
• Dutchman Flips Tractor Trailer While Masturbating, Doesn't Stop
• Nissan GT-R Smashes Through Newspaper Boxes
• Crash Your Rolls Into A Supermarket, Get 16 Months In Jail
• Top Twelve Stupid Car Crashes Caught On Video
• 2010 Porsche Panamera Crashes, Joins Cool Club
• A Treasury Of Spec Miata Wrecks
• What's It Like When Your Mazda Sheds A Wheel On The Race Track?
• Should We Consider Crashes Inevitable?
• Mean Mopar Streets: Harvey Keitel Versus David Proval!
• They're The World's Most Expensive Cars- Let's SMASH 'EM UP!

This one's a classic "Hold my beer and watch this" moment. What's a better idea than setting the cruise control on your lifted pickup, opening the door and hopping up on the hood? Nothing, nothing is a better idea than that.

It's tough to do, but this video proves it's possible to have no spacial perception and completely fail at heeding basic hand signals.

How do you even do this? How is it possible to so effectively roll a station wagon as such low speeds. Quite impressive.

Ever wonder what happens when you count your chickens before they're hatched? This.

Does anyone look at this setup and think "Yeah, that should work out fine"? Nobody watching the video, that's for sure. A distinct sense of the inevitable failure is rewarded with a satisfying crunch.

Eddie Griffin crashed an Enzo during a promo event for the terrible car flick "Redline," it was probably a publicity stunt, which makes it even more stupid, then Griffin opened his mouth, sending the stupid into the stratosphere.

Showing off what your BMW 7-series can do, but not what it's supposed to do, in front of onlookers in a drainage culvert and flipping it because of stupidity. And some say karma doesn't exist.

Put an idiot in a Lamborghini and he's going to show off, this one put a lot of people in danger and got in an accident, screwing up his very expensive LP640 in the process. Just desserts, some might say.

Why would you put someone who obviously can't operate a manual transmission in a kit car with some very serious horsepower? We say the stupidity here is on the part of the car's owner, not of the woman behind the wheel.

Don't try to look like a badass in a Bugatti Veyron after you spin out at the track by trying to pull a donut to get back on. You will just take an embarrassing situation and make it an expensive one by backing it into the tire wall.

A Ferrari plus a opportunity to show off for other Ferrari owners during a Ferrari parade in cramped European streets practically guaranteed this type of thing would happen.

There are a lot of stupid things in this video, the people standing in the middle of a parking lot with no barrier wall while a bunch of dorks pull the e-brakes in their tooner cars come to mind.

You can put away your tired old woman driver jokes for a day, as they don't generally drive in this region. However, like all the other regions we'll be covering, we're not exactly going to show you the good side of these countries. Whatever conclusions you want to draw from these examples, what we see here is the same old story we see everywhere-when poorly-trained people aren't paying attention, bad things happen. Also, in the Middle East as everywhere, those rowdy youths just can't be trusted. Click Next to begin your tour.

• Don't forget to check out previous chapters of the World Atlas of Bad Driving!
• World Atlas of Bad Driving: Europe
• World Atlas of Bad Driving: Asia

NATION OF ORIGIN: Saudi Arabia

NATURE OF INCIDENT: There's an active car scene here, and like many cultures that are simultaneously very strict and very wealthy, the youth tend to blow off steam in big ways. In this case, that includes drifting, which we suggest could be the basis for an extremely interesting if annoying youth summit. However, in this case, drifting includes hitting a spectator, who seems to take it quite well.

NATION OF ORIGIN: Saudi Arabia

NATURE OF INCIDENT: Sandstoms, as we've already seen today, are awesome forces of nature. Perhaps you'd expect Saudis to be able to handle them better, but hey, in the upper Midwest the snow catches them off guard every winter.In any case, this is the aftermath of an accident, but still very gripping.

NATION OF ORIGIN: UAE

NATURE OF INCIDENT: What would the Atlas of Bad Driving be without a tunnel? This example at the Dubai airport is actually a well-lit, well-constructed tunnel with only moderate traffic density, but it only takes one scatterbrain.

NATION OF ORIGIN: UAE, Dubai

NATURE OF INCIDENT: No idea whatsoever what could have happened here, except to say the crazy SUV driver seems to have passed his crazy on to the flatbed driver.

NATION OF ORIGIN: Iraq

NATURE OF INCIDENT: This incident actually involves a foreign driver with a bit more steel in his vehicle than the local. Unusual conditions apply and may or may not be present in the rest of Iraq. Also, we're not passing judgement, but how? How did that guy not see it coming?

NATION OF ORIGIN: Iran

NATURE OF INCIDENT: Hey, look, there's drifting in Iran! And oof, they're not necessarily good at it either. Maybe there's more that unites the world than divides it after all.

NATION OF ORIGIN: Iran

NATURE OF INCIDENT: An intersection in Tehran. Unlike yesterday's Indian intersection, they possess and more or less follow traffic signals, but there the differences end.

NATION OF ORIGIN: Iran

NATURE OF INCIDENT: Car surfing is apparently pretty big in Iran, and this rather terrifying cell phone video is a stunning example. The Cloverfield-esque low quality just adds to the impact.

NATION OF ORIGIN: Isreal

NATURE OF INCIDENT: This famous horse-on-car incident is so unusual that you can't even classify it except to say it's Biblically, Old Testament-weird.

NATION OF ORIGIN: Afghanistan

NATURE OF INCIDENT: A beautifully done video diary of an American serviceman's trip along the Jalalabad highway serving Camp Phoenix. If this guy got nothing else out of his tour of duty, we bet he's a much safer driver now.

And by different, we mean rather fatalistic. When we conceived Crash Week, we wanted to be relatively tasteful in our crash coverage, even when showing accidents. Unfortunately, between the number of pedestrians, bicyclists, scooters, motorcycles, donkeys (honestly), and heaven knows what on Asian roads-plus the cavalier attitude of Asian TV channels towards showing blood-choosing footage was a harrowing task. Here's what we managed to pluck from the carnage. Click Next for the first exhibit.

NATION OF ORIGIN: China

NATURE OF INCIDENT: Apparently having your lights on in the fog is not an international phenomenon, so it's a good thing these vehicles weren't traveling at normal highway speeds.. This is an remarkably close-up view of a multi-car pile-up.

NATION OF ORIGIN: China

NATURE OF INCIDENT: Oh, those crazy Asian intersections where signals are ignored in favor of some sort of traffic etiquette, if signals are present in the first place. Frankly, we're glad this went out of the frame.

NATION OF ORIGIN: Singapore

NATURE OF INCIDENT: Cue a flinchworthy montage. What's traffic like in a tiny, dense country so legally rigid that chewing gum is against the law? Chaos, apparently. Strict laws don't mean people are paying strict attention.

NATION OF ORIGIN: Japan

NATURE OF INCIDENT: Japan seems to be more willing than most Asian nations to share its traffic camera footage, This is from a local newscast, the topic of which seems to be safety, and the traffic cam in question seems to be on a rather wide hallway rather than a road.

NATION OF ORIGIN: Australia

NATURE OF INCIDENT: Right, Australia is not in Asia, but calling this the Australasian section seemed silly, and this doesn't fit anywhere else; Australia deserves its own section but we just don't have room. So here's a segment from Aussie TV, filmed as part of a special report on accidents, in which the crew was lucky enough to have a semitruck PIT-turn a Mercedes right when they were filming.

NATION OF ORIGIN: Japan

NATURE OF INCIDENT: As noted, there were plenty of clips we couldn't show you because of the graphic bicycle/scooter/motorcycle involvement. This one we can! It's a reenactment done by the Tokyo police to demonstrate the necessity of caution to bicyclists. Their bike safety officers seem somewhat more hardcore than our own.

NATION OF ORIGIN: India

NATURE OF INCIDENT: This is two minutes of small miracles-maybe not so small, if you've been looking at Asian crash footage for days. It's merely normal truck, car, bike, and jitney-cab traffic at an Indian intersection, which is sort of like saying "merely two minutes of the Blue Angels, Thunderbirds, and Red Arrows all flying together." Watch for the shocking surprise ending.

Step One:
The first vehicle to arrive stops before reaching the collision scene and stages 10-20 meters back from the incident. The driver also sets their vehicle's hand brake (or e-brake) tightly in case of a rear impact to prevent the emergency vehicle from being pushed into the scene.

Step Two:
Traffic cones and warning signs are placed in the road to warn oncoming traffic and to direct them out of the lanes that are obstructed. 

Step Three:
When fire trucks arrive at the scene they stage further back, parking at a 45-degree angle in what is known as the "fend-off position," which is used as a last resort in case another motorist slams into the scene.

Step Four:
On the highway, approximately 150 meters of cones or other warning devices are placed in the road to protect rescue crews and investigators, though the distance can be less on city streets or roads with slower traffic.

Step Five:
Ambulances are staged on the "safe" side of the scene, which means past the accident but within the cone area. Any other investigation or emergence response vehicles line up on the safe side between the "fend-off" truck or on the other side near the ambulances in a way that doesn't block their path.

Step Six:
Investigators will take as long as they need if it's considered a crime scene, removing vehicles and opening up lanes only after the evidence is collected.

[Info And Image: Arrive Alive South Africa]

Despite our patriotic impulses to claim it for our own, bad driving isn't a uniquely American phenomenon. Yes, the roads of Europe are faster and in better condition, and many of the cars are very capable, but the people behind the wheel are still human, as you're about to see. Click Next to see just how human they can be. Warning: As is often the case with video on the Internet, these are shot through with bad Europop and awful narration, so you may want to turn the sound down.

Click next to travel through the world of poor drivers.

NATION OF ORIGIN: Romania

NATURE OF INCIDENT: This truck driver decides to take a break from driving his truck to celebrate the accordion music and folk dances of his country. Which would be fine, if he wasn't driving his truck at the time. Okay, you can leave the sound on for this one, but remember to run it off right afterwards.

NATION OF ORIGIN: Poland

NATURE OF INCIDENT: A truck driver, again.This particular Pole is objecting as strenuously as possible to being overtaken on the right. Short but sweet proof that racking up the miles can do things to you.

NATION OF ORIGIN: Croatia

NATURE OF INCIDENT: Traffic camera footage of a particularly active and evidently slippery street corner in Rijeka. We find this one oddly hypnotic and, at times, even graceful.

NATION OF ORIGIN: Italy

NATURE OF INCIDENT: Icy conditions surprise drivers exiting a tunnel. An illuminating study in anticipating changes in road conditions. It also poses the question of how best to warn other drivers of danger.

NATION OF ORIGIN: Holland

NATURE OF INCIDENT: A couple kids talking about a car accident at an icy intersection get to see a couple more. Again, how exactly should citizens warn people?

NATION OF ORIGIN: France

NATURE OF INCIDENT: It's anybody's guess what started the incident in this tunnel-cam footage, but it provides a good example of panic stops by drivers not paying attention.

NATION OF ORIGIN: Turkey

NATURE OF INCIDENT: An accident at the mouth of a tunnel becomes a cascading failure. Of particular interest is the traffic slowing to a crawl on the other side of the divider as people rubberneck.

NATION OF ORIGIN: Germany

NATURE OF INCIDENT: A Mercedes driver loses it on the Autobahn. Despite the breathless American narration which you should ignore, the car was most likely fine and the driver most likely wasn't concentrating.

NATION OF ORIGIN: Russia

NATURE OF INCIDENT: Getting a strong anti-tunnel feel? There's two reasons for this: First, there are more traffic cameras in tunnels, meaning more footage is available. Second, reduced sight lines and, of course, lack of room to avoid accidents in tunnels make for more dramatic incidents.

NATION OF ORIGIN: UK

NATURE OF INCIDENT: Okay, you can turn the sound up! Enjoy the antics of the Tijuana Brass as these drivers attempt to sneak into the parking lot without paying and run afoul of diabolical countermeasures.

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Click next to travel through the world of poor drivers.

Where: Roncq, France
What:A Renault meets a pole.
Why It's So Confusing: This French hatchback meets with what we're assuming is a pole before landing on the median. Why does it take nine policemen to deal with what looks like a one-car accident? Conveniently, this occurred near a car dealership so the driver can easily upgrade.

Where: Provo, Utah
What: A Semi-Truck overturned
Why It's So Confusing: This appears to be right in the middle of nowhere. Was there a windstorm? Did someone run this off the road?

Where: Escondido, California
What: This Volvo V70 runs smack dab into this pole.
Why It's So Confusing: The accident itself is fairly normal, but what makes this accident so interesting is that the police staged a good 40+ cones to direct traffic out of a one-car wreck. Bored, guys?

Where: San Antonio, Texas
What: Toyota Tundra in a garage
Why It's So Confusing Perhaps the worst parking job in recent memory, and after all that work to get the portico setup. This is why we can't have nice things.

Where: Loire, France
What: A couple crazy French cars again.
Why It's So Confusing: This looks like the classic t-bone at first glance, until you realize there's no other intersection. But even more interesting is the way these cars crumble. Russian steel much?

Where: Minneapolis, MN
What: Mercedes E-Class Into A Tree
Why It's So Confusing: What would possibly have motivated this Mercedes driver to run into this tree on a cozy side street? Does it have to do with the fact that the car is full of crap?

Where: Austin, Texas
What: Plymouth, Acclaim
Why It's So Confusing: Who knew any of the AA-bodied Mopar's survived? This one probably crashed into the side of the black F-150 with giant rims. Either way, no one walked away from this one happy.

Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
What: A Honda Accord Coupe And A Ford Windstar
Why It's So Confusing: What made Milwaukee famous? Why, Accord coupes crashing dead on into family wagons.

Where: Central Shasta, California
What: Jeep Grand Cherokee
Why It's So Confusing: We've looked at this a few different ways and have no idea what this truck hit or why the Google team blurred out some of the ground next to the driver... unless he tossed up his lunch.

Where: Barbera del Valles, Spain
What: A subcompact and a work truck
Why It's So Confusing: It looks like this woman was so excited by the prospect of seeing a Google Street View van she backed up straight into this work truck. Oops.

For more Street View crashes check out Street View Gallery.

Our fascination with crashing covers the entire spectrum of thought, emotion, and frankly, respectability. Certainly we all want our cars to be safer, but on any given day you can hear someone complaining that safety has made cars less enjoyable. People love watching a good car crash, but hasten to add that they hope nobody was harmed. And while most people don't want to be in a crash, almost everyone loves telling stories about near misses, bad driving and out-and-out crashes.

So, to commemorate the dark side of the culture we love, we'll be taking a look at crashing from all sides next week, from a world atlas of bad driving to explorations of safety technology to the impact of safety on motorsports. Meanwhile, let's wish the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety a happy 50th and thank them for the incredible video — and try not to verbally castigate them for destroying that classic metal Chevy beast. Still wonder whether cars haven't gotten safer in the last 50 years? See what happens when a 1959 Chevy Bel Air crashes at speed into a 2009 Chevy Malibu.

See what we meant about "dark side?" Tell us what you're feeling after watching this in the comments below.
[video via IIHS]

The theory is there was an issue with the fuel line that quickly got out of control. All we know is we really hope the owner's insurance covers this. [Kaizo Photo]

The details are a little vague, and translated from Dutch, but it appears the accident occurred sometime Sunday morning Antwerp time. The driver of the Lamborghini made contact with a Spyker, hit a concrete curb, and landed on its roof. The driver of the Lamborghini was thrown from the car and died at the hospital. The passengers in the Spyker were unharmed.

The accident is being investigated, but if we were to guess — we're going with street racing. Otherwise the odds of both cars being in the same place at the same time are too astronomical for us to even contemplate. (Hat tip to Moosestar!)

Update: We're told that it might have actually been a wreck with a Mercedes, according to this source. Our Dutch readers want to translate for us?

Update 2: Our man Kris hooked us up with this description: "The driver, 36 years old, crashed his 320km/h limited Lamborghini at about 6am on Sunday morning on the Noorderlaan in Antwerp. The was very little traffic on the road and the drive did not keep himself to the speed limit. It still needs to be determined what speed he was going when he lost control in the bend. The driver died 2 hours later in hospital. On YouTube several clips can be found of the driver and his car as he used to arrange get-togethers in champagne bars with other exotic car drivers. 50 meters further was a damaged Mercedes which probably makes it a street-race, both cars are taken by the police for further investigation."

[Autogespot]

The Lotus driver apparently lost control around a corner, over-corrected and slammed straight into a BMW X5. The passengers of the BMW suffered only minor injuries, but the passengers in the Lotus were trapped for 30 minutes and had to be cut out of the roof. The 14-year-old boy was life-flighted to the hospital while the father was well enough to be taken by ambulance.

And the driver of the Porsche, of course, fled the scene until he was later stopped by deputies. The D.A. is still trying to determine what charges will be filed. (Hat Tip to Jo Schmo!)

[Photos/Story: KSL]

When Ted Kennedy was first elected to the Senate in 1962, it seemed the biggest tragedy in his life was being the Kennedy without prominent cheekbones. Before too many years had passed, however, his brothers John and Robert would be assassinated and he himself would barely survive an airplane accident. These experiences doubtless shattered him and left him with many personal demons, but they were at least matched by the ones he was about to bring upon himself and Mary Jo Kopechne.

On July 18, 1969, Kennedy gave Kopechne, a teacher, secretary and former political campaign specialist, a ride from a party of people who had worked on his brother Robert's presidential campaign. Although it's unclear why, Kennedy drove his Oldsmobile 88 down an unlit dirt road and off a bridge into a nearby tidal channel. Kennedy was able to swim free of the car; Kopechne was not. It was several hours before the overturned car was spotted by local fishermen, who alerted the police, while Kennedy himself only reported his involvement in the accident after Kopechne's body was discovered.

The actual circumstances of the accident and its aftermath are a confusing tangle that will be debated for years and has already been reduced to bumper-sticker commentary, but it undeniably put a stop to Senator Kennedy's Presidential political ambition. To his credit, Kennedy continued to work tirelessly for the causes he believed in, and was considered by many to be one of the most effective members of the Senate at the time of his death. Sadly, for many, his legacy will always be his role in the tragic death of Mary Jo Kopechne and the National Lampoon Volkswagen ad parody he inspired.