The crashes at the 11-foot-8-inch bridge were funny at first. Then, when the city of Durham, North Carolina, added several warning lights and signs, the crashes became sad. Now they’re so sad, they’ve looped right back around into being hilarious again.
Cars have a lot of important parts on them and in them. Some, like the radio or maybe one of your forward gears, you can live without. Others, like your tires, you really cannot. Please do not experiment with this hypothesis at home, or on a busy Houston highway.
A crash in the early hours of the morning near Miami Beach left a Lamborghini Huracan split completely in half, according to reports. The car caught fire as well, with the front end landing in a nearby parking lot and the back half coming to a stop in the middle of the road.
Alcohol is a hell-of-a drug, and it’s just about the only explanation I can come up with for why the person in this video was able to stumble so catastrophically straight into a street-parked 2001 Porsche Boxster S. Just wait until you see the dent.
A Texas jury just awarded a couple severely injured in a crash $42 million because their vehicle, a 2010 Honda Fit, had been improperly repaired by a collision center. Instead of welding the roof, per Honda’s repair guidelines, the shop used adhesive. That, according to plaintiffs, compromised the car’s safety…
Jalopnik sleuths, we call upon you and your inherent car knowledge. Update: Damn! You guys are good!
Yesterday, an Instagram user posted a Snapchat video of what appeared to be a human “skateboarding” an old Honda CRX. That is, coasting it down a hill while standing on the floorboards. The video ends with a dramatic crash. Is this video real? Fake? Physically real but also completely intentional? We’re leaning toward…
And it looks like the caution flag is out, folks, for a wreck at an intersection in Charlotte, North Carolina around the time of NASCAR’s “Laps Uptown” parade before race weekend. Someone’s spotter is going to be in trouble for this one.
On Saturday, in Gómez Palacio, Mexico, a taxi attempting a U-turn struck a Lamborghini Aventador, causing around $38,000 in damage, according to the Mexico City newspaper Excelsior. For once, it wasn’t the Lamborghini’s fault!
Rolls-Royce has a lamp that’ll show you how paint colors will look under the sun anywhere in the world, because you don’t want to design a $500,000 car only to have it look dingy in your driveway. But that lamp probably won’t show you how your car will look in a sinkhole, which is where this Rolls ended up.
The body mounts of a 2002 Chevrolet Silverado pickup failed today after a mechanical failure caused the driver to lose control of the truck. The end result is that photo you see above: the cab completely separated from the frame.
On June 27, just before 1 a.m. on the Chicago’s west side, police officers tried to pull over an SUV that matched the description of one used in an earlier carjacking. But the driver of the SUV, Taylor Clark, a 32-year-old off-duty cop, sped off, setting off a chase that would end with Clark and another driver dead,…
A Tesla Model X owner put the company on blast by claiming the car’s door opened automatically before being ripped off by an oncoming truck, an incident captured clearly on tape by a security camera. But Tesla says its own data indicates that it was clearly user error, and while the incident is unfortunate, it’s a…
It’s the painful reality of loving cars; sometimes they crash. Even Ferrari-powered drift cars are no exception.
This violent crash caught on camera early Thursday morning in Los Angeles looks like something out of an action movie. The crash left one driver injured—though he appeared to be talking to rescuers at the scene as he was pulled from his car, according to KTLA. The crash occurred on the 101 freeway in L.A.’s Hollywood…
This is the stuff of movies. Literally. Except the car didn’t explode. Thank god for that!
Let’s get this out of the way first: the driver survived the crash.
At least eleven people are so far injured after a Porsche Boxster Spyder attempting a burnout ran into a crowd of people attending a Cars and Coffee event in Boise this morning, according to news reports. Though this one doesn’t involve the usual suspect, it’s another example of how a great car event can go south when…
Late last month, authorities charged the driver of a Chevrolet Corvette Z06 who wrecked the car after smashing into a tree just outside Ann Arbor, Michigan. Now, we know the car—once featured on the YouTube series Vehicle Virgins—was traveling 125 mph seconds before the crash, thanks to the detective work of The Ann…
Yesterday afternoon, before Irma was downgraded to a tropical depression, a driver in Northern Georgia experienced the dangers of sharing the road with an inland tropical storm up close.
