Raw Video: Close-up Images of Jet Crash

A Canadian air force jet crashed and exploded in a ball of flames during a training run for a weekend international air show in Alberta, but the pilot was able to eject from the plummeting plane before it hit the runway. (July 24),3010. LINK: Youtube

Roger Williamson and the Dutch Grand Prix Tragedy of 1973

Roger Williamson (February 2, 1948 - July 29, 1973) was a talented racing driver from England who was killed during the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix.

Williamson won the 1971 and 1972 British Formula Three Championship titles. In 1973, Formula One returned to the Zandvoort for the Dutch Grand Prix, after an absence of a year due to extensive safety upgrades to the race track which amongst others included new asphalt, installation of barriers and building a new race control tower. This race was only the second Formula One start for the March team and the second Grand Prix race for the promising Williamson.

During the race, Williamson suffered a sudden tire deflation, which pitched him into the barriers at high speed and catapulted his car 300 yards (275 metres) across the track against the barriers on the other side. Williamson’s car came to a rest upside down and the driver was unable to extricate himself from the burning car. Fellow driver David Purley came to Williamson’s aid but he was unable to overturn the car. Initially some people, like the commentators on Dutch tv, race control and some of the other drivers participating in the race, thought that Purley was the driver that belonged to the burning car, and thus thought that the driver had gotten away safely. LINK, Via: Youtube

Man trapped in 23-year 'coma' reveals horror

A car crash victim has spoken of the horror he endured for 23 years after he was misdiagnosed as being in a coma when he was conscious the whole time.

Rom Houben, trapped in his paralysed body after a car crash, described his real-life nightmare as he screamed to doctors that he could hear them - but could make no sound.

'I screamed, but there was nothing to hear,' said Mr Houben, now 46, who doctors thought was in a persistent vegatative state.

'I dreamed myself away': Rom Houben, now 46, has told of the nightmare of being trapped in a paralysed body, unable to tell doctors that he was awake, for 23 years

But three years ago, new hi-tech scans showed his brain was still functioning almost completely normally.

Mr Houben described the moment as 'my second birth'. Therapy has since allowed him to tap out messages on a computer screen. LINK

Young driver goes through the roof as flying car takes off

Two young Sydney men have done their best impersonation of the Dukes of Hazzard following a high-speed accident, launching their car 15 metres into the air and somersaulting into a Sydney home's roof.

The men, 21 and 25, were driving north on Sunnyholt Drive about 2am yesterday when they lost control and careered off the road. Smashing through traffic lights, a signal box and a telegraph pole, the late-model Holden Commodore sped across a grassed area and up a dirt mound, launching into the air.


Police were initially unable to find the car that caused the damage. Then they looked up.

''[We] finally located the vehicle inside the roof of a house,'' Inspector Adrian Grech from Blacktown police said.



No one was seriously injured, including the family of three asleep inside, but police found debris, including a tyre and a steel pole from the road scattered 100 metres from the crash.

Yesterday the 21-year-old from Beaumont Hills had been released from hospital and was being interviewed by police. The 25-year-old was in a stable condition in hospital. LINK, Via: Youtube

RC Stunt Plane, Helicopter and Jet do tricks and crash

Airshow sponsored by Trilordy and Venom Racing. Nitro rc planes and jets show off some awsome control in front of a crowd. LINK: Youtube

Renault F1 Dubai Autodrome Crash

Team Renault F1 Roadshow comes to Dubai Autodrome and, after hours trying to get the car sorted, it finally gets on the track....... for a few seconds....... LINK: Youtube

The Funny Crash Compilation

New funny crash compilation. Music by Queen. LINK: Youtube

Mayday/Air Crash Investigations - Fire Fight

An Air Canada flight on its way from Dallas/Fort Worth to Toronto International (Pearson) suffers an internal electrical fire that threatens to suffocate all on board.

This is the flight that folk singer Stan Rogers (among many others) lost his life on. More on Wikipedia. LINK