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[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 114 points 1 year ago

Did I just watch someone die?

[-] sci@feddit.nl 85 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago
[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Russia

Survived

Don't worry, surviving in Russia is only a temporary issue. May this man one day succeed in his quest to solve this vexing problem.

[-] Nechesh@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

It seems likely. That vehicle was just swallowed by a flooding river. It's technically possible the occupants escaped, but unlikely.

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago

I was hoping for a no, but thanks for the realistic analysis.

[-] Nechesh@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

It's not easy for people to escape a submerged vehicle in still body of water, especially if the vehicle flips. Add in a raging river tumbling everything around, pushing everywhere... Even if you were able to escape the vehicle I don't think your chances of making it to shore from the middle would be good.

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago
[-] C_Spinoff@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I think once you are on the surface, your chances rapidly grow, even when its cold water with a lot of current. You still only have to manage to get 20-30m to the side out of the strongest current. The way to the surface in time to not suffocate might be the problem, especially out of a wildly tumbling car that smashes against rocks and stuff in the riverbed while being hurled on by a powerful current.

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Probably. That did not look good

[-] Reverendender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I wonder if they had time to think “I shouldn’t have tried to drive across the bridge.”

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[-] slippery_salmons@lemmy.today 61 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't drive over that thing in any conditions.

[-] Guajojo@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

Do some of the Lemmy apps have a time scroll for videos /gifs? I'm on liftoff and I hate being unable controlmthe playback

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 27 points 1 year ago
[-] Reborn2966@feddit.it 10 points 1 year ago

and change of speed

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[-] TWG@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Connect does not

[-] odium@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Jerboa doesn't

[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Memmy doesn’t, no.

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[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rickety my arse: look how the bridge put itself back together again after it dropped the van, all in time for the next van.

[-] DasRubberDuck@feddit.de 29 points 1 year ago

Bridge needs more triangles..

[-] slippery_salmons@lemmy.today 12 points 1 year ago

Dang Poly Bridge 3 is out?

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[-] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe a muscle or 2 too

[-] neme@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wouldn't trust that bridge even if the water was lower...

[-] Gleddified@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

My man Jeremy Clarkson Speed and Powered his way right into that

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[-] Flyspeck@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of that scene from the movie Sorcerer

[-] MichaelScarn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Excellent, excellent reference right there. That bridge scene is absolutely amazing.

https://youtu.be/ET_MnC_pFPs

[-] Flyspeck@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Incredibly tense!

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[-] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

yesyesyenononono.

[-] reverie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I wouldn’t be caught driving on that bridge if it was over a bone dry riverbed.

It looks like the classic rickety rope bridge trope

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 5 points 1 year ago

So it's a nope bridge

[-] odium@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, that's a walk or maybe cycle over type of bridge in the best of conditions.

[-] curiousgoo@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Was this an Amazon Delivery Executive?

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Does anyone know where this bridge is... or should I say was?
Where do they erect such wonky bridges and people are reckless enough to drive over them?

[-] sci@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago
[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Copied from u/sci@feddit.nl

According to this the driver survived:

https://news.sky.com/story/truck-driver-takes-on-flooded-suspension-bridge-and-loses-12362557

Happened in the village of Uryum in Eastern Russia.

probable location in google maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/53%C2%B010'09.1%22N+118%C2%B007'00.0%22E/@53.1675162,118.1063825,2661m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d53.1691944!4d118.1166667?entry=ttu

River is the Shilka river, a branch of the Amur river.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Any developing nation. Especially in more rural areas.

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[-] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

~~Aero~~Hydroelastic Flutter

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