What Happens To A Car Trapped Between Two Trucks? | MythBusters | Season 4 Episode 2 | Full Episode

The myth involves a car trapped between two fused trucks. To test this, a deserted freeway and two trucks, trailers, and a small car are secured. However, staging the driverless trucks' crash requires ingenuity...
Using science as a tool, Hollywood special effects experts attempt to debunk rumours, urban legends and popular myths that have captivated the minds of many individuals.
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[@TheOnceisenough]

I'm so glad you're uploading whole episodes, this is my childhood. I watched episode 1 on tv with my family when it first aired, and it changed my life.

[@TheTubePoweredOne]

Especially considering the fact that they recently delisted a huuuge chunk of the series on Discovery+, making them borderline impossible to watch legally.

[@yourguysheppy]

For some reason I'm only seeing one episode per season. Is this some kind of region locking crap?

[@TheOnceisenough]

@@yourguysheppy I don’t think so, I think they’re uploading random episodes

[@NotProFishing]

One of us one of us one of us

[@straphyr]

​@@yourguysheppy Could be. More likely something about copyright/monetization or maybe scheduling. There's the rest of the episodes in the playlists presumably, but they're all privated

[@TheModelator]

I work for a tow truck company, working on one ofour major motorways. We were called out to an accident involving 2 artic lorrys. Traffic had stopped and one artic smashed into the rear of the stopped artic. When we arrived it just looked like another accident, both of the lorry drivers were injured but ok. The emergency departments were happy for us to do our thing and remove the lorrys. No matter how we pulled the lorrys would not move apart. After clammering under the lorrys we found a sports car imbedded into the front of the lorry that hit the stationary lorry, the car had travelled upwards into the engine compartment, and over the rear axle of the other lorry making it invisible in the wreckage. We had to unhitch the trailers, then lift the 2 lorry cabs (still stuck together) on to a low boy to be taken to a police compound, where they had to cut the lorrys apart to retrieve the sports car. Unfortunately the young driver and his girlfriend did not survive. In 22 years of road recovery, I have only had to untangle 6 lorry accidents, of these their was 7 fatalities, yes in a head on, the tangled mess of metal does fuse together

[@crudboy12]

That would be the source of this myth, seems to me. Do you remember when and where, or if there is any newspaper article about it?

[@EricLing64]

@@crudboy12 It has probably happened a few times in history, lots of vehicles on the road, plenty of accidents, some percentage would have those kinds of results. Especially if you've ever seen videos of white out and black ice conditions, massive pileups, the semi's of course the scariest because they're just huge machines plowing into everything else. Will possibly happen again too, though maybe radar systems or whatever on semis might help a little.

[@ReinaldoRauch]

i think there you start to think what about really is fused together like, its so much entangled or is fusion together like a weld

[@michaelkolak376]

I believe it needs to be at a much higher speed and weight. The trailers were probably light in the episode. Announcer said a combine speed of 70mph.

[@hulkslayer626]

Yeah, I think trucks can get tangled together, but not fused. My Dad drove in Demolition Derbys for years and some cars got stuck together even at those speeds. But if bullets don't "fuse" with the metal objects they hit, I don't think a harder metal at a lower speed could do it.

[@DerBob137]

It would be funny to know what the Crane Operators at the Port thought when they saw this without Context.

[@dracones3020]

Those guys have seen some shit💀

[@borntoclimb7116]

Good question

[@Alkatross]

They thought: why is that blindfolded man smelling feet?

[@ellococt]

I would be like " I want that job" lol

[@ouch1011]

It makes me sad that the US got cut down versions of all these episodes with commercials added, whereas the UK got more complete episodes with no commercials. I’m very familiar with almost all of the Mythbusters episodes and all of these that I’ve seen on here have several minutes of additional footage, some of which is very good and helpful to the story.

[@gts7307]

Actually, this series also on the air in Australia channel 9. This channel episode was also full 50 minutes long.

[@SplendidFellow]

But they don't have the same narrator and are often not the complete episodes

[@Paul-nq5tn]

​@@SplendidFellowI am from UK and it was same narrator when I was younger I think

[@armastat]

The production company was based in Australia

[@kungfudavie]

The joke is people pay for cable/satellite and it’s silly money for what it is and there are still ads

[@Callidus7SSM]

6:09 it’s sweet how they were always surprised like “we can really have this?” When their fans chipped in. If I’d had the opportunity, I’d have jumped on it for the chance to meet them. Plus the bragging rights that you got to help them with a myth. Everyone is getting something out of it

[@JackFoxtrotEDM]

Such a nice car though, kind of a shame. At least curious what the make and model is.

[@jameswilddog9877]

@@JackFoxtrotEDM Fiat x1/9

[@JackFoxtrotEDM]

@@jameswilddog9877 Hey did this video get taken down for you suddenly too?

[@jhgylugkfhfhlgf]

@@JackFoxtrotEDM Agreed, I felt a bit heartbroken for a nice Fiat_X1/9 to be crashed for amusement. Loved to see one around when they were a less rare sight in the eighties and nineties en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_X1/9

[@jameswilddog9877]

@@JackFoxtrotEDM video is fine for me still

[@Laerei]

Such a shame what they did to that Fiat X1/9, these days it's an extremely rare car, even here in Europe. I would love to own one, it's a pretty unique vehicle looks wise and also was one of the first cars with a central engine.

[@Iaintwoke]

I think most of them rotted away. They definitely did in the UK.

[@tezy0193]

they constantly did sh.. like that, destroyed so many unreplaceable cars :X damn tv shows

[@MegaFPVFlyer]

If it wasn't for the show, the car likely would have gone to a scrap yard anyway from the looks of it. It's a shame either way, but at least it went out in a blaze of glory.

[@Blueshirt38]

@@tezy0193 Too bad, so sad.

[@isaiahwade1484]

​@@tezy0193 Like anyone would know the car is going to be rare and worth anything.

[@ConcerninglyWiseAlligator]

34:12 Well, that's just sad. RIP Grant, we can only wonder what your mind could be giving us now.

[@lexbailey]

"we've got one shot at this" ... * proceeds to take two shots at it *

[@d4slaimless]

It is Discovery. Narration is always like this: "only one shot at this", "single mistake can lead to a disaster", "any moment anything can happen", etc. etc.

[@ludicrous7044]

That's cause the first one went South!☹️🤕

[@leatherman6328]

@@d4slaimlessthis has been our largest build! This is going to be our largest detention of C4! Still love this show.

[@d4slaimless]

@@leatherman6328 of course, love it! But can't help to notice the drama enforcement :D

[@wingerding]

They only collided the trucks once.

[@rollingmetal949]

Back in the days when you could make people smoke on tv for science😅

[@cleverusername9369]

Adam used to be a smoker, he was probably quite happy to have a cig

[@wingerding]

Still can...

[@czack_rz3532]

Poor little Fiat. Even without a motor that would be worth something these days, but alas hindsight is 20/20

[@tommyrivetta4578]

30k with the motor, it's a X19, and it share some mechanical parts with a couple of Ferrari

[@cestfixement]

fantastic car in decent condition, ruined for nothing, they could have got a broken mx5 for nothing

[@mitch9521]

@@cestfixement This was in 2004, it was nothing but an old piece of shit. Cry about it.

[@omnirath]

@@mitch9521yeah the dude prob had it lying around for 15 years in his garage or smth at some point you have to clean up the space

[@wingerding]

​​​@@cestfixement for entertainment not nothing. Instead of a single man's lawn ornament with no engine it was turned into something for the masses to enjoy. Also making far more than 30k in the process.

[@UserMcUserface]

I'm allergic to vodka; I break out in handcuffs.

[@ZachJonesrubberbandguns]

😂😂😂😂

[@robertc49]

same here but i break out in a wet bed

[@chuckclone24]

It's so interesting seeing all 5 work together on the same myths because by time I started watching in later seasons they were completely separate teams most of the time.

[@WalkerRileyMC]

The editing is a lot nicer too. I know a lot of it is scripted and done in several takes, but it still feels more organic than the later episodes when it was very clear the editors got a lot more power.

[@ichiroutakashima4503]

Moments when Grant still wasn't an "Official" mythbuster and is simply a build team member.

[@chrisfoster9080]

Fix It Again Tony. Sad demise of a sweet little X-1/9.

[@Redmenace96]

I had one as a kid. Still want to buy a collector one, as an adult with money. Dude said it had been sitting in driveway for 5 years. Bad neighbor, and bad car guy.

[@dusterpl6093]

yeah that hurt

[@austinstockton9221]

The fact that's it'd damn nest mint tho like that's a solid body don't care if it runs or not rn it's clean

[@BayAreaMike99]

Always liked them since Forza horizon 3 i believe :(

[@BayAreaMike99]

39:40 at least it didn’t have a motor and it was kind of a junky inside

[@Ripen3]

I've been waiting for these uploads for 10+ years. Finally!!😄

[@hornetscales8274]

These guys really did have one of the best jobs ("...it just dawned on me that we're really going to smash two big rigs together...."), which of course makes for a great show.

[@Suileron]

I always love the low-budget ingenuity of this show, even when it did get better funding. Showcases the creativity and engineering of everyone involved even better!!

[@christopherdean1326]

I saw a car squished between two trucks once. It was at a much slower speed, with smaller trucks, but it still wasn't pretty!

[@BernardManansala]

Keep those Full Episodes Coming!!!

[@Shakes-Off-Fear]

Now I’m keen to see the Compact Compact revisit

[@perry92964]

there was no way this was ever going to work but it was fun watching them try

[@punkr0ckgurl75]

There is a piece of footage of a small compact blue car stopped behind a transport and another one hits him from behind…I believe it’s a pile-up on highway. he disappears between the two trucks. The guy driving the compact didn’t even know he died it was so fast and so complete

[@nomaschalupas2453]

no body knows they die, they know they are going to but when it happens they dont know lol.

[@jessehickman668]

Thank you for uploading these. No matter how many times I’ve seen them I love watching them

[@OrionXBlaze]

I was in my BMW for a very similar rear end collision. The damage looked about the same. I was waiting for traffic with a smoke, and my lighter ready. I looked in the rear view because I was thinking of changing my mind. Here comes a truck. I made my peace with myself in that moment because I thought I was a dead man. The car went about 100 feet. I looked over and the truck went through a ditch, up a grassy knoll, and tipped over as the driver dove out and ran. I got out of my car, went across the road and lit my cigarette. The paramedics thought I was in shock because I was so calm about it. The driver's seat had twisted from the force of my body in the impact. I've had a screwed spine ever since, but I'm still here with minimal damage.

[@akj2387]

What bmw?

[@OrionXBlaze]

@@akj2387 Exactly

[@antiquesrestoration3874]

Every time I see a full episode posted, it's a good day. Thanks for sharing!

[@Cnowak85]

34:12 Those words couldn't be any truer Rest in peace grant

[@Rincypoopoo]

Yeah huh ?

[@Bastista1]

@@Rincypoopoo Grant died in 2020.

[@hashimina_]

As he said "If i die, i tell no tales"

[@Rincypoopoo]

@@Bastista1 Thanks. I know. It was an agreement noise at the sad irony of the remark...

[@TheMonstermandude]

I loved that MasterChef episode where they tried to fuse two Semi's together for their final dish

[@keithfilkins2043]

Thank you for sharing the full episodes! One of the best shows of all time!!!

[@darrenwendell1723]

Hearing the Narrator say "Dead Man Walking" (34.11) when Grant enters the shop felt very uncomfortable.

[@vincentbanksjr.7509]

I just said the same thing creepy

[@LiiMuRi]

Everyone dies one day. We're all "dead men walking"

[@vincentbanksjr.7509]

@@LiiMuRi some sooner than others

[@SP_3333]

I know That was super creepy.

[@RenatoSantino]

there's another episode when they were racing in the dark and there's a results chart saying "jessi: crashed"... felt wrong

[@cestlavie1892]

please keep uploading episodes!! this has been so nice, id give anything to see the crew back together

[@Lagbeard]

"How do we stop this?" That's the neat part, you don't.

[@SenorBigmac]

Rip Grant:( such an amazing series.

[@theminimancjb36]

Im with kari its a shame to see that car get smashed it was in fairly good condition

[@Foggy404]

I mean, a bad motor, but still, a bit too nice still

[@mortenhansen3455]

@@Foggy404Bad motor? It didn't have any...

[@Iaintwoke]

​@@mortenhansen3455When he said "The motors gone." I thought he meant gone as in broken. But I could be wrong.

[@mortenhansen3455]

@@IaintwokeIt was completely missing ;-) oh well. I wish you a good weekend regardless.

[@Iaintwoke]

@@mortenhansen3455 Must have missed that bit. Wasn't watching 💯. Sorry. You too 😁

[@zsoltbocsi7546]

Anybody else noticed the Matchbox GMC Wrecker? still have mine

[@johneastmond9092]

I can't tell you how much traffic I've run on this Compact-Compact story! The welding together is completely forgotten. It's the; "How to time the tow trucks so the semi trucks hit at the same time!" It's really simple. I'm surprised the Mythbusters missed it. You attach the two cables together with a shackle to a pulley. Attach one end of a double strength cable to one tow truck. Pass it through the pulley then attach the other end to the other tow truck. Now the trucks can vary some and the; pulley, long cables, and two semis are drawn at the same speed as one assembly.

[@iceman7975]

The best series ever,nothing comes close.Sad news about Grant,Rip my friend.

[@AiOinc1]

RIP that Bertone X1/9

[@BernardManansala]

Do you guys take requests? Upload the full "Yawning Is Contagious" episode. PLEASE!!!

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

I always thought a shorter and/or higher vehicle, more like a mini or beetle, would have worked better.

[@kim98677]

Those are actually the gnarliest feet I've seen on a sane person 🤣🤣🤣

[@SenorBigmac]

Love this. Prefect Nostalgia candy

[@anthonyg9739]

Thank you.

[@emilybuttrum8862]

Kari's Toad screams when the collision happens are killing me

[@I_want_White_Cheddar_Popcorn]

That aint compact, thats just a regular sports car.

[@peterpetrelli82]

I remmenber this when I saw for first time in 2008-2009?😮😢ñ

[@johnp.2267]

The calculations they must have performed, just to figure out if one tow truck had the torque and power to pull two semis with attached trailers at a high rate of speed, had to be monumental.

[@StarTrek4Life]

I actually had a family friend's son, go through an accident just like this. Instead, he was rear-ended into another semi. His car was unrecognizable, and ironically he is a paramedic. He's lucky to be alive. I dont remember the full story as it was third hand information by the time it was told to me.

[@sebastianahrens2385]

I love that the "Mack" on the truck was first turned into "Wack" and later became "Ack" when it rear-ended the car. Martians!

[@NemanjaRajic]

Happened several times that car be found hours later in between two trucks rearended.

[@samisavage891]

Kari is too cute at 10:40 😂

[@Daily-Ai-Driver]

34:15 Sad to think, when the narrator said "dead man walking" that Grant would pass away so soon... Grant was genuinely a good guy and was taken way too soon from the world!!

[@neesan9962]

😭😭😭 I would’ve paid good money for that compact. That thing would be worth a fair bit now in 2024

[@christophermitchellsr9492]

had a blast watching this the first time it was aired an the look on jamies face when it happens is pure joy the man just loves a good crash lol

[@LychkovIA]

17:18 Adam is so funny!! xD

[@trippm.6799]

when you blow your whole budget on one myth

[@A_ContentGuy]

Love this but liked the old intro more

[@mocko69]

I think I od'd on puns ☠️

[@RevilHermes]

It would be great to do it again anyway but full load and full speed 60mph :D like radio controlled :D

[@kyuofcosmic]

It was a simulated full load.

[@sergeantbob441]

The shape of things destroyed. Lol - old people remember the commercial for the TR-7.

[@scootinand]

44:40 nice use of recycling: The Arc of the Covenant being used as a field table

[@Nderak]

i wonder what the tow truck drivers thought of the carnage. theyve probably seen dozens of fatal wrecks

[@19Neil67]

6:34 fiat x19 😂😂

[@vincentbanksjr.7509]

34:19 just said grant imahara then deadman walking thats fucking creepy rip grant

[@kennethsmith6470]

They should have used ONE tow truck

[@Tuberesu]

The only way to test is to run the two trucks on rails with flanged wheels.

[@Tux-rs7rp]

I wish I could get 2 semis and trailers for free

[@donaldstewart9873]

They should have used my feet after work. lol

[@somethingabouttractors241]

Tory is always hurting himself, I remember when he hit his knee on the window sill that looked painful!

[@micahnelson1166]

50:28 RIP my man

[@Blarg32150]

Adam Savage? Ha more like Adam Salvage

[@Monkey_D_Luffy56]

I enjoyed this show when I was a kid because they can do whatever they want then you can learn along the way

[@MMMM2MMMM2MMMM]

they should have use one towtruck only

[@deezkhajiit184]

It's not often they use Buster for what he was actually designed for

[@amac6483]

Ask a trucker if they have ever seen 2 semis go head to head......it happens.

[@JarrettKirchman-cj6uo]

I think Adam ended up getting pissed that he did the bad breath myth , check out after Carrie decides that the myth is confirmed @ 37:54

[@austinstockton9221]

Using a damn near mint fiat x19 feels like a crime fr

[@nomaschalupas2453]

grant is the worse co driver ever, he kept telling the driver to go slower every time when they were clearly behind the other tow truck. the constant slowing down is why the rope broke when the semi went faster than they pulled since they slowed down.

[@justingood1443]

34:12 this is strange to hear now

[@kurtlagon2023]

45:29 : "FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION!"

[@jakepalmer1986]

34:11 well that aged well.....

[@sonokawaray]

Two trucks, getting wrecked (oh yes)

[@noobiesmurf]

For this myth we have to make Adam smell like a Frenchman 😂

[@localforearm1627]

yall should add air dates in the description

[@cleverusername9369]

Look it up for yourself. They provided the season and episode number, it's an easy 2 second Google search.

[@matheusfiorelli8829]

this the first time they used the Alameda Runway? :V

[@kyuofcosmic]

Nah they’ve used it since season One. This is not the Naval Runway but another set. It could be nearby.

[@PaulieMac77]

Miss you Grant 😢

[@danisgay100]

I love the mack on the truck converted to wack

[@chickengaming2997]

Sad that they destroyed those cabovers...

[@warlike3934]

They could have just asked any of a few million people who have witnessed the aftermath of multiple vehicle accidents, but hey that wouldn't do much for TV

[@oh-_-cain5679]

Rip Grant

[@LastGoatKnight]

I really like the "Wack" touch

[@isaiahwade1484]

Those drivers were pretty incompetent. They had one job to do and couldn't get it right. Out of three tries one just let the other pull away, even when they weren't pulling the trucks. Its not hard at all keeping pace with another vehicle. They even had Grant on the radio telling the other driver to slow down, but he wouldn't.

[@kevinfitz3721]

This was the perfect chance to test why does mouthwash burn twice, i notice when i mouthwash I'll be sitting down and i wait till it stops burning and then stand up and it begins to burn again its weird

[@jamesmoore9511]

The term "Fix It Again Tony" comes to mind - but it ain't gonna happen, fixing that is. Trying to remember which vodka distiller that had as their slogan "It's the spirits that count".

[@AnakinTheWeird]

34:12 oooooooohh... that didn't age well...

[@j3tts0n65]

34:05 bruh 😢

[@ireije8132]

34:13 damn... that didn't aged well. 😢

[@christopherthompson5457]

I always wonder why these uploads have BBC and Masterchef UK watermarks

[@lord_matto8660]

Same

[@hectorcorona9536]

There were aired full length and with no ads

[@Scum42]

​@@hectorcorona9536 not no ads, but fewer, and the versions in the US were cut down to fit more ads in

[@jamesmanson2152]

34:11 Foreshadowing at its finest

[@diekoofford]

We are al dead people walking, the only true promise life gives us is death, so play and have fun enjoy what you have and call your mother

[@WolfDarkrose]

everyone who watched the busters on tv remembers the 3 months they rteased this episode and was the episode that besides the cement truck everyone from the early 2000s remembers

[@SpoilerofGames]

Is season 4 the earliest season they have uploaded?