What happens when you crash into a Lamp Post? | Fifth Gear

Taken from Series 7 of Fifth Gear, first broadcast in 2005, Jon Bentley finds out what happens when you crash into a Lamp Post. For access to exclusive Fifth Gear content and all FULL episodes, join our channel / @fifthgearuk
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[@josiemcgrath4651]

Why is there no reply’s except mine. Am I early?

[@TiptronicSS]

So what changed since 2005, the making of this video?

[@Shrek_Has_Covid19]

i volunteer to hit the lamp post at 70mph

[@nigbarb955]

Stupid

[@majidkanka4118]

Imagine after guy crashes, people wonder why he's not exiting the vehicle . And then they all find out that he actually crashed into the wrong pole lol

[@artoodiitoo]

"Well, we´ve proved the point." :D

[@Mika-85]

This is not funny at all. People can get killed did they crash into one of those old stile posts

[@pharmZey]

@@Mika-85 ok killjoy lol

[@natebarry5553]

@@Mika-85 It's just a joke. Nobody's making fun of car accident victims here

[@LGRCarVideosAndMore]

@@Mika-85 OK Karen

[@pip5461]

This person "Guy", is extremely confident in the product, which he didn't design.He just markets the product... What a jolley character ...

[@ludwig5336]

He probably invested in the product

[@speedymini998]

Isn’t Guy just a jolly good chap?!

[@m__r1100]

Really splendid.

[@themaxeffect9175]

He is the completely opposite type of person than my dad calm Vs angry

[@DrewJPS]

He's rather spiffing in my opinion.

[@trexmidnite]

They found he cracked his ass cheeks

[@avec4amadman1]

“I’m wearing my tweed as you would if you were driving along ‘normally’ !” Personally, I never drive without my tweed!!! 😂 ...as other replies he is a splendid fellow though isn’t he, jolly good he did that... bottoms up old chum.

[@TeslaModelSPlaid3799]

4:43 This man FULLY stands behind his product.

[@johnbower7452]

Really have to admire that guy's confidence in his product. He had 100% faith in it.

[@robertl2856]

Thats thrown some light on the subject !

[@Dave-pp3jr]

Wauw awesome comment

[@bogusmcbogus2637]

Nice post

[@andrewmckenzie4420]

Only in Britain would a jolly man in a tweed jacket purposely crash a rover into a lamp post 😂

[@stephenbayliss7661]

Just like the public would in my tweed, oh and crash helmet 🤣😂

[@user4732_]

That is some commitment to your brand.

[@H.K_R]

5:44 the fireman nearly said "Any neck in you pain?"

[@Zootopia96]

We all get neck in our pain sometimes. You get it from lash in your whip.

[@jjmmjj9999]

That's not a fireman.

[@arvindjijiantony4882]

What if he'd hit the wrong post? The old one was right next to it

[@ahyaan2552]

the end.

[@pradhyudh]

This video wouldn't be made available for public

[@friedchicken1]

in gta 3 they just tick off the pavement

[@michelveraliot]

Ha ha good ol' GTA iii and VC physics But actually sometimes they stay and bend that's an awsome detail

[@TorutheRedFox]

same with Need for Speed Most Wanted, well they do slightly slow you down but that's it

[@mangtest8632]

In gta 4 you fly out to car

[@stefan-stocksmadesimple5241]

Not so good if you crash with a convertible though

[@benf3979]

First thing I thought. Lamp post to the head

[@davekennedy6315]

Driving a convertible is far more dangerous in any crash. Convertibles might be considerably safer nowadays but removing a big part of what protects in a crash is never going to be a good idea (especially if you roll the car!) The best idea if you want to be safe in a car crash is to not drive a convertible.

[@pedromonteiro1126]

@@davekennedy6315 still that Megane be vibing :)

[@11mitsaras11]

Now that's believing in the product you sell. Also, job extremely well done by the science and engineering team that designed the lamp post.

[@moczikgabor]

I don't know if he is a distributor or a director of the company manufacturing the said posts, but doesn't matter that much. Being a good leader of a company is as important for the success as having good engineers, developers, workers, administrators, supply chain managers and whatever everything which is required in a manufacturing. Engineers and developers are often very good at designing a part of a product but maybe not a whole product, and probably very bad at selling it. Totally different personality required for the designing and marketing! Any department fails in a company, it will sabotage the success. Beeing a good leader not necessarily means you have to be able to source, manufacture, market and sell the whole product yourself all alone (but definitely better if you know as many aspects as you can). The key is to know what kind of employees you need, gather those people, then know their strengths, and trust that they know what they are doing and organize them to work together.

[@theofficialstig]

In my town a guy slipped outside my old school on a motorbike due to an oil spill and then died hitting a lamp post at around 30mph I know motorbikes don't have a crumple zone but he might have survived with a weaker lamp post

[@davekennedy6315]

A biker died in my hometown hitting a lamppost at around 30mph (he was overtaking a slow car not realising that the car in front was letting another car out a side street, he swerved, coming off the motorbike straight into a lamppost) So many UK roadside signs, lampposts, crash barriers etc are made far too strong and result in pointless fatalities that the whole issue needs looking into (and as soon as possible as this is costing lives!)

[@theofficialstig]

@@davekennedy6315 agreed, it needn't be so dangerous.

[@davekennedy6315]

@@theofficialstig all these years later the lampposts are still the same and those safer roadsigns are still a rare sight. The government just doesn't care and only go with the cheapest possible solution.

[@theofficialstig]

@@davekennedy6315 the government only puts a plaster on issues when it's in the public consciousness Speed cameras don't even save lives but they pay for themselves many times over

[@markgriffiths3804]

What a waste of 2 beautiful Rovers....... :(

[@b19drums70]

Savage

[@wimpykidfan3922]

Shut up

[@Landie_Man]

AntyBeast the 800 was a really nice car. Designed in large by Honda. A real luxury barge.

[@petea7323]

Exactly. 5th gear should hang their heads in shame. Why can’t they smash up some new German cars? There are a millions of them on the road

[@joshuaaaron125]

Early 00s, they were undesirable and cheap as chips to buy.

[@QuanticChaos1000]

Wears a helmet with a visor to protect himself from broken glass, leaves visor open...

[@waynewynnx7976]

This reminds me of an accident happened to me exactly in August last year, crashed directly into a 1ft wide tree nearly 100kmh, miraculously survived with only some bone fractures on my face, nose crack, and peeled off forehead skins, the rest were minor body and shoulder injuries.. But thank God and well taken care by family I was fully recovered after 2 months. Life's way more precious since then ❤️

[@Timico1000]

5:15 "Left or right...shit, which was the safe one?!"

[@channeltv6595]

And we’re still using the old lampposts in 2020

[@markchip1]

It would be VERY interesting to see how much change-over to this newer type has actually taken place by now!!

[@Doc1855]

I’m glad you finally decided to test vehicles that actually travel at around 60-70 mph.

[@matthewgodwin3050]

Met Jon Bentley at Festival of the Unexceptional 2022. Very nice man, and he hasn't aged a bit. Whereas I'm wearing about as well as those Rovers. After the impact with the lamp posts.

[@walterwhite5388]

Car: *crashes into lamppost* Me* I was expecting the lamppost to fall

[@TeslaModelSPlaid3799]

This light pole needs to be made mandatory everywhere immediately

[@jamesjames8174]

That CEO is AWESOME!

[@cosmin9738]

imagine that guy accidentally confuses the safety light pole with the other one

[@kieranwhite6647]

I honestly thought he was going to, he swerved a lot later than I was expecting

[@proto718]

There was a Saab 9000 that was literally split in two pieces. The front of the car was in the eastbound lanes and the rear of the car was in the westbound lanes. All dead. Queens, NY

[@goliathprojects7354]

This feels like a domesticated Top Gear

[@acheekymeesh]

Reporter: you can't just crash into a lamp post. Guy: Hold my tweed

[@Wreck-Gar]

I'm nominating this as the best comment 😆

[@prabhugautham]

Old is Gold.

[@stevenhanna6973]

We still have 18 inch wooden poles

[@stevenhanna6973]

TheCamshafter they don’t move maybe a little bark may come off

[@stevenhanna6973]

If that’s all came off

[@HDestroyer787]

We have wooden poles for power cables

[@jjames1197]

I hit one, sheared it, and drove home, I wend back early in the morning and got read of the evidence.

[@TorutheRedFox]

I love how the actual light itself just flings off the pole

[@Ndiver81]

It’s all about money. Like Ford did with the Pinto, the cost analysis cost to pay out on injury/death claims is less than to replace the posts.

[@FirstNameLastName-ev3jk]

Who would claim from the lamppost owner? Surely, it would be the lamppost owner claiming from the idiot that drove into it?

[@azz09444]

Is noone going to talk about the fact that this guy drove his car voluntarily into a lamp post to prove his point

[@user-rt5oo6ro8l]

heard over radio at 5:18 - WRONG ONE, ABORT! - WRONG ONE, ABORT! 😂🤣

[@alanchantiefighterskuanlia627]

driver hitting lamp posts? must be sniffing glue

[@joshacollins84]

That is pretty nuts & really cool. Full stop.

[@1whamster]

In 1981 my uncle Tony was front seat passenger in a Morris Oxford, on his way to a gig, when it hit a reinforced concrete lamppost from the 1930’s, the type that was used to carry tram wires and had a huge cast iron arm to hold the lamp, another words it was hugely over engineered and strong enough to be used as a major support column in high rise buildings, with a configuration of eight 10mm rebar set in concrete with a 2”hollow centre, (no access panel) . The car split in two at the B pillar killing all three occupants instantly, the engine was hurled 60 ft from the lamppost and the destruction was so bad the police it first couldn’t determine the direction of the car was travelling, and of course the lamppost was still standing with hardly had a scratch, Thankfully they’ve now been replaced with standard steel ones but those new flexible ones as shown here are absolute genius and would save dozens of lives each year in the UK

[@1saxton552]

“i wear my tweed as you would when you are driving along normally”

[@TheKilroy1980]

A pitty they used 2 Rover 800 for that

[@pierrepinson2906]

It is a shame.

[@leoesposito8762]

Fantastic.. somebody should try and get this to Australia..

[@howtobebasic2122]

More Crash tests!

[@brucehursman8874]

Of course the faster you go the more damage to the occupants and the vehicle. That was very confident of all of you. Congratulations, I enjoyed this.

[@bcfairlie1]

Someone finally found a use for the Rover 800 series. Well done

[@petea7323]

austinrover2005 probably been listening to clarkson too much. Exactly they’re great cars

[@mirelurk-fish7387]

There was a Mercedes amg gtr near my home that crashed into a lamp post and split in half then caught fire afterwards. Amazingly the car built in sos cellular called for help and the passengers were rescued before the car exploded

[@davisdesigns1153]

I think imma give a lamp post a test later on

[@shakalpb1164]

And now do the same experiment in a convertible XD

[@tanello2]

there is a downfall of the "safer pole" in a case of a split sec when walkers are near by and see that car is about to hit them , a real lamp post is the one that can save his life by him just standing behind it.

[@Oystein87]

Can't say I see many of these here in Norway even today.. Most are still steel tubes or solid wood.. Maybe more in the area of Oslo and of course on new roads here and there but not so much the rest of the country.

[@Oystein87]

@TheCamshafter Haha😅

[@anthonyomahony6257]

Where I live in the republic of Ireland, in the town of Tralee there are military surplus ships gun barrels used as lamp and power posts in some parts of the town. They were purchased by the state after the war and have very thick walls that wood have been shot proofed. I know a family here who's son was unfortunate to hit one of these broad side and was killed instantly. They are easy it identify as the post / barrel is formed from necked stages just like you would see on a WW2 battleship. Even after the aforementioned death of a young man, the council still did nothing regarding its replacement for something safer 😱

[@anynonymous1585]

Guy's such a mega chad. He knew his lamp was safe, so he hit it at 50 kph

[@desiredditor]

These were the things that made fifth gear what it is sad its just a perguot sponser now

[@Chriswales]

Yes for a while 5th Gear was great, it then changed name to Fifth Gear around the time Jon Bentley left. The informative and useful content started to get dropped as they chased viewing figures. Finally becoming a sort of cheaper clone of the other UK motoring program.

[@Cars_and_adventures]

As a street light electrician I'm sure street lights are magnets to cars. We have a call out nearly every day from somebody hitting one. And remember there's a high chance the whole column with go live after hitting one.

[@mehdisol7094]

we have those safety pole everywhere in France. didn't knew they were safety pole. that's a good thing

[@ArabianKnight7771]

Brave Guy

[@tyler9703]

Witnessed a crash where a Ford Taurus went side first into a lamp post at 50 MPH. It was horrifying, the car instantly crumpled like paper, the driver was dead the second the car hit the pole.

[@corentinoger]

Rumor has it Guy went on to sell bullet-proof vests.

[@bobblofinshlof9741]

We need to install some GTA 5 lamp posts

[@iainmacrae6982]

0:11 Jack Joy from Car Throttle could tell you from experience what happens

[@improcrastinating8063]

The timing of this and Adrian Sutil totaling a Senna LM is suspicious.

[@djover739]

FANTASTIC CAR!

[@davidhayes4814]

Jolly hockey sticks. We are all thinking the same.... if when removing Guy’s crash helmet, his head came off with it. I did like those Fifth Gear informative video clips, though. Informed as well as entertained.

[@baronhyatt6729]

I live in United States and I used to put a lot of that stuff up in Florida in Jacksonville's matter fact it's something you have to realize if they have Breakaway bases that's what lowlights for so it breaks away and falls but you're going to pay for that because they got to replace it and all it's got cheap it'll cost you about $150,000 to replace one

[@centaurus2309]

What if it was a convertible or open car that hit the post? It looks like the pole would come down and wack someone on the head really hard in the car.

[@MrSupercar55]

That's actually pretty tough compared to the ones in the video games...

[@nick_giles]

What a guy! Smoke that man a kipper, he will be back for breakfast ;) This is definitely some good progress...

[@jt-bg6ey]

Some one had bright idea when they invented that lamp post

[@artoodiitoo]

I didn´t know we had "safety" lamp posts here, haven´t hit any to notice, so far

[@evo5dave]

The way the lamppost lashes back would mean instant death for any unfortunate pedestrian.

[@John-xk6qg]

This is why lamp post are made from aluminium because aluminium is softer than steel

[@caribbeancarchannel2]

Why using theso Nice Rovers and no ricecooker?

[@davisdesigns1153]

Jaws of life go *Brrrrrrrrr*

[@vinatay7452]

Question: why do you guys still use old cameras I dont know when its from im just saying how old is it and why do you still use it in 2020

[@415sf305]

Geez I’m impressed… in the USA I think the most common threat is Power Line poles .. surprisingly majority of our power infrastructure is still above concrete as off 2022😅..

[@alienabductor101]

I feel bad for that guy. He was willing to do anything to sell his product. And still, he didn't. 😑

[@twincammikev]

😁😁

[@llakshh]

I was in a lamp post crash. Came out alive without much damage as the car absorbed most of the impact

[@gatooncracko527]

I was in one too, came out with horrible injuries and fractures, and spent 45 days in hospital 😀

[@gur262]

Led tech is so lightweight, these things should be even flimsier, maybe wood treated with plastic against rot + some cushion down low.

[@wilhelm0022]

My left ear enjoyed this

[@s60rchase17]

Me: Mom can we see Top Gear? Mom: We have Top Gear at home. Top gear at home:

[@idkwuisp7626]

Even with the safer lamp post, the car takes like only 6 meters to stop from 80 km/h. I'm surprised he's fine.

[@joshuawilson7023]

You mean I could have watched this instead of totaling my own vehicle? Damn

[@lol-wt8cu]

this video should have 1m views

[@KOL630]

This is a great video. I’m going to crash into a lamp post in my rover in my tweed jacket what what, jolly good show!!!

[@phillipjknight]

The local council or government could part exchange the old ones for scrap and not give them away for a song to one of their buddies as per the usual government practice after the people paid full up for them.

[@Altezza1999]

RIP 2 800's.

[@reckles1]

Canada has shear bolts at the ground level. Minimum damage to a vehicle. A lamp post by my house get knocked at least 4 times a year. It's on an exit from the freeway on a bend. No deaths here.

[@georgescott4505]

Its funny. Here in America back around 1976-77 ALCOA (Aluminum Corporation of America) ran a PSA where someone in a car veers off the highway striking on aluminum lamp post after another breaking them at the base while the car did not take much damage. What happened since then?

[@danielalexander8588]

I'm glad I missed the Alfa 164 getting smashed. But, felt sad about the Rover.

[@NoahAviation09]

Good video

[@chewmonkey89]

Most dangerous part at 6:02. Put your arms and head close to the steeringwheel when airbag did not deploy at an accident.

[@carleeelena03]

Damn lamp posts.

[@lol-wt8cu]

5:27 the camera broke lol

[@fearnpol4938]

I’ve actually seen these in Scotland but I’ve never seen one in Norway.

[@boundish1]

They exist , but they are round and not octaconal. Source i work where we produce theese in Norway 👍

[@NaeMuckle]

A girl I went to college with crashed into one at 70 and died instantly. I went passed the accident on the bus not knowing it was her. They really are lethal.

[@zanemurcha2675]

That man is a total eccentric. He is using himself as a human crash test dummy.

[@MintW7]

I love the concrete ones

[@liamrea6574]

I feel sorry for the two rover 800s

Same here, they looked mint :(

[@boy638]

That was 15 years ago, are these kind of lamp posts commonplace now?

[@jlc5639]

Nope.