Greater Vancouver Car Crash Compilation 14

A compilation of car crashes from the Greater Vancouver Area / Lower Mainland. Part 14.
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0:20 • Port Mann Bridge Car A...
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1:25 • Close call accident on...
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1:54 • Broadway & Springer Ne...
2:11 • Another Parking Mode H...
2:37 • Two car crash Aldergrove
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3:18 • Rear ender - 02/14/18
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3:44 • Classic Porsche Gets S...
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4:29 • Accident Aug.1st (8th ...
4:55 • Hit and Run Accident v...
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5:26 • Dashcam of Accident Ma...
5:40 • Costco Fiat Nov 19, 2021
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6:39 • Accident Vancouver 70t...
6:55 • Crash Vancouver 1st an...
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7:34 Global News (Happened near Sicamous, BC)

[@buckyhermit]

Is is amazing how almost all of these were preventable. And over half of them were predictable.

[@slicksnchicks]

You’re so cool❤

[@panner11]

Is it really so amazing? Accidents everywhere are almost always due to human error. Unpreventable crashes aren't common, they're freak occurrences.

[@AlexKazakovaxkazakov]

I live in WA state and been to Vancouver BC many times. One thing I noticed in Canada is much fewer dedicated turning lanes and medians on city roads. Drivers turning left have to camp out in left lanes and dart through oncoming traffic. Increases the risk of crashes

[@taxicamel]

@@AlexKazakovaxkazakov ....you don't "dart". You WAIT till you can see that it is SAFE to turn. .

[@bytebyte9]

@@taxicamel What is "darting" ? Never seen that term before?

[@victherocker]

2:47 the radio reporting a crash in Abby as another crash happened in front of the car is comedic timing

[@arcader54tdbank55]

noticed that

[@rainydaycanadian]

I thought that was so funny

[@mebeitoday]

Nice to see you posting again

[@josephwang5416]

I moved from another province to Vancouver, what I notice the most difference is that people don't treat yellow lights as yield to left turning cars. Negatives aside, I like the fact people allow cars to merge into your lane on highway driving, street driving, or just daily commute.

[@RugbyGuide]

Same! Yellow seems to mean 'speed up, you might make it before a red' here.

[@paddington1670]

That started in the late 90s early 00s in my opinion, before then when cars were generally slower and had either no ABS or bad ABS and worse brakes than modern vehicles, they didnt run as many yellows. Now with half the city with Tesla's and luxury cars it's a free for all at the yellow.

[@Chameshi]

@@RugbyGuide It wasn't always like that, but it's gotten even worse to the point of almost expecting cars to run reds.

[@RugbyGuide]

@@Chameshi I saw three today alone. :(

[@e-curb]

@@Chameshi IMO it is due to the double reds. In other countries, the instant your light turns red, the other way gets the green. The double reds here just encourages and enables red light runners.

[@davidtolman1266]

Nice to see you still uploading videos. Miss your bad drivers videos too

[@celltone]

The semi truck at the end the driver will probably try and argue that it was 50/50

[@OMGWTFLOLSMH]

That dumbass was obviously driving WAY too fast around the curve. For some reason, too many semi drivers think they're in Ferraris. Slow the eff down.

[@YS-fr6nu]

Of course

[@janfonacier5338]

At 4:15 I’m genuinely hoping the bicyclist is okay but I’m also hoping they and other bicyclists understand this situation could’ve been 100% prevented if the bicyclist just stopped as they did have a red light, sure some may think that because they’re on a bike the rules of the road don’t apply to them but it’s quite the opposite as they’re using the road too. It does affect me quite a bit as I’ve run into so many situations with bicyclists who run stop signs and stop lights and have little care as if it’s no big deal and to make it worse, when they’re in the wrong, they’re gonna make sure you know that they give you a stern talking to 😅

[@J_NoNamesLeft73]

That is totally the biker's fault. With the cam car in the way, no way for the white vehicle's driver to see that biker coming until it's too late. The biker, like drivers also has to obey road rules. I hope the cammer provided footage to the driver of the white car to clear them of any fault should the biker try to pin it on the driver of the white car. Hopefully an injury that serious teaches them a serious lesson that they are not above the law. It's not like he ran the red by 0.2 sec, biker had plenty of time to stop for the red.

[@wingchan4042]

Most bicyclist don’t follow rules on the road .Red light they will ride onto the pedestrian path and never stop at stop sign.city of Vancouver is over tolèrent on. Bicyclist

[@OMGWTFLOLSMH]

I watched a dumbass on an electric scooter sail through a red light at a major intersection this evening. He was wearing a motorcycle helmet so he probably felt invincible.

[@liamrabnett3829]

I had a cyclist run a red downtown and almost smoke me as a pedestrian crossing the street. Dude actually had the gall to tell me to watch where I was going…

[@vancitynico1958]

It’s funny because they are the ones who should pay attention to the rules and rights of way more than any other road users

[@sshah2545]

Half of these were in Richmond. I’m absolutely shocked, who expected that!

[@Tacomadome24]

I've lived in Richmond for 46 years. It's been a master class in terrible driving since about the late 90's.

[@caroles5258]

@@Tacomadome24 And we all know why

[@DubboU]

@@caroles5258 Why? Do you know most accidents happened in Burnaby and Surrey? Surrey literally has the highest premium rates with ICBC, and Richmond the lowest in the lower mainland? Wonder why we don't see car cameras from those places.

[@marekeos]

@@DubboU Where's your source on that?

[@DubboU]

@@marekeos I'm in the insurance business.

[@grumpymunchkin2959]

I’ve driven in many places around the world, BC and Vancouver especially are filled with bad drivers.

[@donmccarthy2412]

Go visit Thailand if you really want to see bad driving!!

[@RobertRitchie-re5pt]

Thais are great drivers. Chinese are horrible drivers.

[@Matt-mh5us]

@@donmccarthy2412lived there Vancouver wins for worst drivers on the planet. Thailand is chaos but it works here not so much

[@thisisnotpublic6569]

I tend to agree. I’m Canadian and Brazilian, drivers in Canada follow more rules in general but are completely oblivious of their surroundings and unprepared for the unexpected. They always assume the happy path and when it’s time for emergency they are clueless.

[@liamrabnett3829]

Vancouver has some awful drivers. But our worst drivers are still the visiting Oregonians.

[@quickstep2408]

“greater vancouver car crash compilation”. so its better than most Vancouver car crash compilations 😂

[@vmmichael0855]

The 🐐 is back!

[@QuickStix26]

@ 02:46, radio guy called it.

[@caragas9331]

not the same accident hes talking about trafic blocked off

[@QuickStix26]

@@caragas9331 I know it’s not same one. I was just referring to the coincidence of the radio report and the accident of the cammer.

[@caragas9331]

@@QuickStix26 yes its a funny coincidence

[@DieselRebel]

4:57, I'd love to hear the story on this one

[@Blahsheep]

I'd say stolen or put on the gas instead of the brake.

[@PoolesReviews]

Crack/meth grand theft auto joyride

[@jerryao]

0:58 thats in Richmond lol, to be exact its the intersection on Alderbridge and No. 3 road. And on the left is Lansdowne mall

[@rssphllps]

I lived in Richmond 50 years ago. 3 and Alderbridge certainly didn't look like this.

[@vancouversworstdrivers]

🔥🔥🔥

[@carcamclips]

For one moment I thought it was Vancouver WA! They drive just as bad there. Good comp xSupaD!!!!!

[@tall_dude1233]

5:16 how do you hit someone with you have a backup camera?

[@Blahsheep]

I know some people who don't even use it. They have it but they still just look back or something lol.

[@TheCobruhAlienat0r]

I asked the woman that backed into my car in a parking lot last week and she just kept saying she was sorry. She had back up sensors too.

[@PoolesReviews]

Because women and immigrants are allowed to drive now

[@mckenziemcmillan2324]

That last one on the sea to sky is like my worst nightmare

[@Matt-mh5us]

BC truckers are notorious for speeding and causing accidents like that.

[@joshuarealina1761]

0:42 this is why i always wait before completing my left turn to see if there are any cars that try to beat the red light. its saved me a few close calls. its not worth trying to rush even if people honk at u

[@xdpplays8002]

Love how anyone who says anything in the video has an NPC line

[@tander101]

Hahahaha yesss

[@tander101]

That just ruined the rest of the video for me 🤣🤣🤣

[@fruitsalad8572]

no one really talking about 5:52 gawd damn

[@jerrywinstrom]

lmao I was gonna say that was straight up attempted murder

[@teamscoobydoo]

2:00 they definitely need to add a flashing pedestrian crossing sign here

[@geman741]

wheres that?

[@bananian]

Why did the guy drive onto the sidewalk towards the pedestrian?

[@davidwong5476]

​@@bananianto avoid hitting the pedestrian

[@bananian]

@@davidwong5476 😅

[@PoolesReviews]

Maybe people can just slow down?

[@ctaaj]

ooh last one is one of my worst nightmares when on the motorcycle truck go crazy on turns.

[@VancouverDave]

I was thinking the same. I like to think with a little defensive driving the MC is agile enough to avoid most bad situations. But this one? Yikes.

[@KyleStansfeld-zi6gc]

This is quite common in Vancouver and the lower mainland. There could be hours of this footage.

[@Matt-mh5us]

Please if you witness an accident and have a cam, please stop and get numbers so you can help ICBC make the correct assessment.

[@kaiserman6667]

ICBC make the correct assessment? ICBC will make the assessment where they can extract the most deductible. They can and do place blame on drivers that were not at fault whatsoever just to get their deductible and pull their safe driving discount. Doubt me, ask any cop and they agree.

[@FirstLastOne]

4:16 I hope the car makes a speedy recovery. Poor thing.

[@Eaglry]

That last one is scary

[@SChahal15]

patience is a virtue

[@dhaug]

The cyclist at 4:13 got absolutely wrecked.

[@MEdGrant]

The cyclist on the (electric?) bike should not have been running a red light.

[@deegan463]

5:55 Does anyone know if that poor guy is alright?

[@Rosemarienahwegezic-w9x]

Yes it is😮

[@zanedgallipeau9119]

the last crash was no where near Vancouver!! it was in the Shuswap between Salmon Arm and Sicamous

[@KakashiH25]

Alot of these can be avoided if people realize that speeding/cutting people off only get them to their destination a few seconds sooner. Maybe even later... Also keep a safe distance between you and the person in front. Also also, whoever it is you are testing can probably wait for a response from you while you are driving, and does not need a message from you right that instant...

[@thebatburger]

Somehow I'm getting a kick out of these videos

[@ShaneBro]

4:25 - I am surprised you showed that. Wow, that was crazy.

[@cliffordstokes595]

thats a normal dumbass on a bike in vancouver / lower mainland

[@FirstLastOne]

Yes, cyclists think the rules don't apply to them and mostly get away with it. Here's proof that's not always the case. Reality.

[@tylerk3616]

Cyclists fault.

[@PrimaryIgnition]

boy did they get smucked. low light, runs the red, just not that intelligent when it's 200lbs vs 5000lbs

[@tylerk3616]

4:30 that reaction time has horrible. I saw that coming a mile away. This lady should not be driving.

[@RanenPo]

She didn't try evading or braking either, just screamed

[@HandsOfCinderblock]

​@@RanenPoCrash is not on her.

[@RanenPo]

@@HandsOfCinderblock Could have probably saved the car regardless of whether she was at fault or not

[@Tan0Games]

0:15 bro's been through this before

[@Cona-vh7vi]

I love when the people in the wrong put their hands up like "what the hell bro?!"

[@eggeatr2008]

love the lower mainland

[@theawesomegamer123]

2:46 Radio announces crash in Abbotsford right as there is a crash in front of the guy, wow what a coincidence

[@Alexi781]

The bird poop on the windshield in the last clip looks like an arrow pointing to where the collision was going to come from.

[@LowTEC.Dracarys]

I think that's a bug kill

[@jerrywinstrom]

5:50 how does that even happen unintentionally?

[@dmfraser1444]

Wow. So many people turning left in front of oncoming vehicles. Doing it on roads I have driven on.

[@patrigdon4205]

@2:50 the radio talking about a wreck as one happens in front of the man. JESUS and its the typical "im going no matter what" crash.

[@jodytollefson7187]

I'm from Alberta and I've never been to Vancouver from the look of these divers it's not safe to go. I don't dive.

[@victoria653]

Vancouver is the scariest place i have ever driven. A cold miserable city. No one says hi. Its not a friendly place

[@radiospazzable]

Is this really the first city that you've ever visited? Lol, do you know how many "Hello friends" it would be for me when passing hundreds of people to get to my office in the morning.

[@TonyZEHS]

What a weird comment to have, I wonder how many places have you driven. I have driven two coast-to-coast cross-Canada roadtrips as well as from the Great Vancouver Area to Alaska, among others places in North America. Let's just say there are many places that are much, much worse. Try Toronto or NYC. Or drive in Wisconsin if you are feeling particularly courageous.

[@TonyZEHS]

I do get what you are saying, at least compared to driving in smaller communities (I live in Maple Ridge) it does have that city-coldness. But again, it is far from being bad when you take other large cities into account.

[@tedcity5861]

no one understands anyone else. 1000 languages.

[@charlyzzz]

Yes it absolutely sucks, you should not come under any circumstances, keep your distance. Seriously it's horrible in here, stay away

[@PeterHuang215]

The last one is really traumatizing, OMG

[@barneyquinn3657]

Some interesting statistics. BC has an accident rate of 17 per 100,000 vehicles. Germany has a rate of 5 per 100,000, as does Switzerland. Densly populated UK has a rate of 2.9 per 100,000.

[@Mo_Taser]

3:44 I would not blame the guy in the vintage Porsche one bit if he lost his shit with that truck driver.

[@PrimaryIgnition]

true. but if you are driving a tiny car like that you have to be hyper aware, especially beside a big rig. still, truck's fault

[@OMGWTFLOLSMH]

@@PrimaryIgnition - Yep, he shouldn't have been in his blind spot. Probably a knock-off Porsche anyway,

[@RobboElRobbo]

that's luckily not a real porsche, it's a kit car

[@AlexKasper]

The last video. Nothing the Camera car could have done to prevent the accident. Once the truck went sideways it was game over.

[@ghostrider-be9ek]

4:15 - thats a suicylist - in GVRD you DO NOT screw around with red lights

[@DavidWsTrainVideos]

3:03 revoke that drivers commercial drivers License for life!!! He is clearly to irresponsible to drive a truck.

[@Sketchylemons]

Vancouver is basically china and india

[@mrroy5542]

Chindia

[@f.mazz.459]

Yep, you're precisely right

[@f.mazz.459]

Ya, they should change the name from Canada to Chindia, and change the maple leaf to the lotus leaf

[@senjubrian1687]

Not even, just India

[@riley8704]

In more ways than just the drivers.

[@sashaspano588]

some of these are wild crashes

[@OMGWTFLOLSMH]

And some of them are lame.

[@bigamigo4863]

The sheer stupidity and ignorance of drivers on the road these days is pretty disturbing. Most infuriating part is i bet most of these idiots get out of thier vehicles blaming someone else.

[@Joe-mz6dc]

Vaxxinated brains.

[@bigamigo4863]

​@@Joe-mz6dccould be that......or they could have what you have where they were just born stupid.

[@taxicamel]

0:45 .....the light is in fact RED at the point of impact. AMBER means the light is about to change RED .....so you are SUPPOSED to slow down as AMBER is the "warning". There was no traffic hence all the vehicles were able to turn left "easily"......except the last driver did not have clear vision of the P/U ....which was clearly travelling fast (speeding up because of the AMBER). FAULT? Who cares? The last car turning was NOT driving DEFENSIVELY and the P/U was driving AGGRESVELY/OFFENSIVELY. Now they BOTH have to got through a hassle that will take months ......and someone looks as though they could easily be hurt.....seriously. .HOW MANY VIDEO CLIPS WERE THERE OF THIS EXACT SAME CONDITION ......TURNING LEFT AT AN INTERSECTION !!!! .

[@zonkedforlife2]

4:16 ridiculous these cyclists think they own the road

[@xDefender11]

Plz tell me the driver wasn’t put at fault on that one

[@DavidWsTrainVideos]

At least he learned the consequences of that, and hopefully won’t do that again (if he’s able). But knowing how the Vancouver Cyclist thinks (or lack there of) he probably tried to blame the driver

[@thestomach]

@@xDefender11 the driver won't be at fault with this video, showing the rider crossing a 2-second red.

[@raymond289]

Last September 2022 a Young Asian boy cyclists. did similar ran a red Smithe & Burrard. driver from out of town making a Right turn on Green light Burrard wasn't expected. Hit him 3.5 Second green light. Later. He try to blame. I didn't give my number to young man. Only to the driver. As I was walking on my lunch break. I even call him out on it is your fault do everyone can hear it.

[@raymond289]

Unfortunately ICBC did pay out something to cyclists with no physical damage. In Burrard & smithe.

[@orcweed]

it will always amaze me how people can live here for enough time to have a BC drivers license and not know how to drive in the rain

[@JimMacintosh]

I’ve traveled all over the world, the worst drivers I’ve ever seen have all been in China and Vancouver.

[@paddington1670]

lol, no comment

[@tc3065]

One at 2:44 was hilarious, truck thought he was gonne be stuck there for a while then....Wow😂😂😂

[@bmw803]

The first clip is the one scaring me the most. Idiots jumping out of their lanes, because the other lane moves a bit faster.

[@BatDudeYT]

The driver that got hit had so much time and space. It was really preventable.

[@TheAliceQuo]

first one the white van was trying to avoid hitting the car in front of him after it traffic in that lane all started braking hard randomly. He was successful in avoiding that and also avoiding getting an at fault claim for rear ending someone. Dude in the truck that hit him is probably fucked on insurance.

[@BakvSFE]

60% of these were in Surrey, BC

[@zaccorpseman7366]

In desperate times like these, you'd think that people are more aware of their surroundings and be on high alerts. Turns out they still have the natural instinct of a brick... Truly wondering how they even made it that far to begin with.

[@zeebee74]

4:32 common thing I see happen. They don't know what a two way stop is.

[@z.harrison3581]

They? Looks like any Vancouverite.

[@ashleyleonard7125]

I randomly got the idea to *MAKE* this happen, probably around the time this was made, but never knew how.....or if it was even possible.

[@LigerSupremacy]

I love how a woman driver's initial reaction is to scream rather than brake when a car appears in front...

[@camerongreer1877]

Pretty much the worst drivers in the world live right here in this tiny city.

[@rssphllps]

Have you ever seen a Russian car accident video?

[@orcweed]

i dont even drive and every road in the lower mainland stresses me OUT

[@orcweed]

1:38 NO STOPPING HERE TO CORNER

[@orcweed]

OOOHHH NOT THE REAR ENDING AT THE FRONT OF THE MASSEY TUNNEL

[@orcweed]

people wearing dark colours on a RAINY DARK NIGHT IN VANCOUVER LIKE COME ON

[@jeffreynicol8287]

0:44 guy turning left was at fault, but both were trying to run the red light.

[@rssphllps]

The light was completely red when the truck entered the intersection. Both were at fault.

[@BatDudeYT]

6:40 has 0 survival skills. Any sane person would enter into that lane stop briefly scan for oncoming traffic and then proceed. Why are people so dense?

[@jeremyk3320]

I'd say driving in Vancouver, Surrey and especially Richmond is taking your life into your hands

[@grapecraftfactions7675]

People who drive fast in the rain have never been in an accident

[@cryptohalloffame]

people are completely distracted, doubt most of them were even looking at the road, probably staring at one of the many screens in their car, sad

[@abrasionthermals9172]

If I watched this before I would have never ever driven. I've been incredibly lucky.

[@RickyLafluer]

4:30 yes scream instead of brake smh

[@Bluefroggy84]

As expected, half of these are in Richmond. 😂

[@KillerSniper55]

I’m convinced we have some of the worst drivers on the planet here.

[@SamusMaximusSMXD]

So most of the drivers see the hazard and instead of braking to at least try to avoid its just mostly a emotional and verbal reaction and in that moment its like they forgot they are in control of their own car and should make an effort to stop regardless of if your gonna make impact or not, its the fact that you gotta at least try even if the other person is clearly at fault, but since social media the world is turning into a culture of narcissism.

[@Chameshi]

A good reminder that safe is better than hasty, and to keep good braking distance even when I don't want to 😅Even without dumb drivers, you never know what's gonna happen

[@hobmarg]

It's truly scary how terrible so many people are at driving... also WTF was that pedestrian doing @ 2min?! These videos are a great reminder to drive as defensively as possible. Really wish it was harder to get/maintain a license in BC/Canada.

[@z.harrison3581]

It’s impatience and lack of courtesy for others. All vancouverites need to work on it and not pass blame on others

[@panner11]

At 2min, it was a crosswalk. The driver with the camera recognized it and yielded. The crashed driver didn't prepare to stop or even slow down. Obviously, stupid not to wait and see if the car would slow down like a normal driver, but the ped was one of the few actually following road laws in this video.

[@soupnazi81]

​@@panner11it's like the bad driver was trying to run over The Pedestrian LOL

[@wretchedslippage3255]

Bro the 356 hurt my soul

[@AlexKasper]

6:44 I'm not sure if the camera car was going too fast to prevent it, but definitely the SUV going across shouldn't have done it without clear visibility.

[@IronChefPeter]

I’m trying hard to understand what was going through the minds of some of these people, most of these were preventable. Maybe the cell phone had some influence here?

[@Minecraftmike5089]

2:03 This crash is actually the fault of the pedestrian. The BC Motor Vehicle Act Section 179 Subsection 2 states that "A pedestrian must not leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle that is so close it is impracticable for the driver to yield the right of way." You can tell it was impracticable for the driver to yield the right of way because they lost control trying to panic stop.

[@bennykakerautodidact]

Probably not. Marked crosswalk and the other cars managed to stop.

[@big_turk]

So much lack of situational awareness and so many of these could have been prevented if people were just paying attention

[@elijahbastos1713]

04:30 her scream gives me the shivers

[@HandsOfCinderblock]

Yeah she's pretty shook. Hopefully she's OK. Sounds like she's in discomfort, but could also be adrenaline.

[@ishkaranbrar313]

Why was that woman making noises like she was getting continuously shot by a machine gun?

[@darylp955]

6:40 speeding past stopped traffic what could possibly... you found out

[@smilingmiata6362]

3:50 that truckers insurance be like: YOU HIT WHAT?

[@XMG3]

proper headlight angle is really important, or else can't see blacked out pedestrians at night

[@bin2608]

It looks like 30% of the cases were caused by speeding for a yellow light

[@JoeIsOut2lunch]

Most of the accidents are caused by people driving either two slow or too fast

[@nickfoster9350]

3:03 remember, folks, whenever there is an incident involving a commercial vehicle, especially if it strikes am overpass, it was more than likely an unqualified brown guy that bought their license.

[@f.mazz.459]

Absolutely true

[@adamhero459]

1:11 Did the scooter take a shortcut on the sidewalk? If so what an idiot, and I hope the insurance company saw this.

[@sunnychen9911]

Totally dont feel bad for the biker that ran the red lights. In fact, i think 80% of bikers dont follow traffic signs.

[@John-ej8ur]

You think that… cool

[@saeidahmadi942]

2:01 Rain and no proper lights on the street

[@MrMeanor]

My city ❤

[@CNDcovert]

when I drive to Vancouver I park at the airport and take city transit lmfao. fawk dis

[@LivingTheDream77]

0:45 Fatal ?

[@RanenPo]

Doubt it, the passenger cabin looks intact on both the Cube and F150

[@aussquirrel]

Should see icbc yards lol