S(w)inging '61 Chevrolet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQOJ34bFbas

And '57 truck line in hip-hop mode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua0qxe4eJWA

http://vimeo.com/106226560
no need for traffic lights

Nice made. Here it's possible, too:

https://www.google.de/search?q=place+charles+de+gaulle&biw=1680&bih=890&source=l- nms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=StMZVNjmNMPiywP66oCAAg&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg

even (illegally) as a pedestrian. Which I can confirm.

A new definition of potholed road: http://youtu.be/M4tdmFJ7qaI

Indeed, that's impressive even for me who is used to Belgian roads (though that our potholes on highways may seem more impressive, at 120 km/h)

Peugeot has a lion. Renault had a... roaring camel

Found amongst a lot of old Renault ads, in which French fans can see Daniel Prévost and Claude Piéplu in a Renault 6 ad.
For the "Why worry?" sequence, a promotional film for the Renault 5 shows (1:05) a woman taking 8 kids on board. Safety was not really a car selling point in the early 70's

these were other times

Although the R5 has French plates (from Hauts-de-Seine) the clip was filmed in Brasilia, the capital of Non-Gomsel-Country.

I wonder if this film was shot in Brazilia or in the (for that time) brand new cities (fr) that appeared all around Paris in 60's and early 70's.


???

It is Brasilia.

And Gomsel was (I hope he still is) an IMCDber who had some problems with some users here and was expelled, as far as I know. (The rumour has spread that he is back…)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYRhRZUBhUY
a cop enters in a civilian car, asking to chase another car
(in Russia of course)

I don't remember why Russian people (almost always) have cameras on board. Insurance stuff?
(I think someone already explained it there, but I don't find the post)

Yes, to avoid fake insurance claims
Some are good comedians:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqaig0nVcDs
(the one at 2:10 could happen anywhere, even in normal conditions and not for fraud)

Accident on the E40 in Belgium:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=581294991999312
You can skip to 1:00, nothing happens before.
Good examples of why it is dangerous to cut through several lanes and tailgate without visibility.

Well, it's indeed very "Belgian style", this way of driving... Otherwise I must admit, than many years ago I had a widely comparable crash. A bus came from the left line on the middle line, where I drove, directly to me. Because I didn't wanted to be hit, I turned on the right lane, but ther were (upwards a hill) many very slow trucks and I was too fast (ca.100 km/h) to slow down behind thim, so I turned on the emergency lane - where an Astra F Caravan was standing. I hit the Astra in a similar way with my K 70, as the Focus hit the truck. But noone crashed into my back.
I wasn't injured either, just a small cut in one finger. And fortunately the Astra-driver and his son in the child-seat (he stopped, because his son opened the seatbelt) weren't harmed at all.


But it can be worse: This crash http://www.rp-online.de/panorama/deutschland/vier-tote-schwerer-unfall-auf-der-a31-bid-1.1944282
I failed for not even one minute in the other direction (I was on my way into the office). Four of the six guys in the Audi A6 died.
But it was their own fault. There were six(!) guys (all Bundeswehr-soldiers) in the car, noone wears a seatbelt. The driver accelerated at the beginning of the A31 (at the cross Bottrop with the A2) immediately on 200 km/h (it was around 5:30 in the early morning. Suddenly there were standing cars on the Autobahn after a slighter accident. The Audi-driver was too fast, so he turned onto the emergency-lane. But there stood a truck, whose driver was a witness of the crash...

The accident from the 3.2.09 ("PKW wechselte Fahrspur auf der A2 bei Bottrop")

www.verkehrsirrsinn.de/risikogruppen/motorradfahrer/zweiraeder_1000.html

happened in a similar way as the crash, as in Antoines video. The Touran-driver, who entered the Autobahn, turned directly from the enter-lane onto the far left lane (there are three lanes there!) - without noticing the biker...

The accident from the 3.4.09 ("Riskanter Überholvorgang...") happened in my village - not uncommon here.
I'm living in the first village on the north-western edge of the Ruhr-area, where the first achievable curvy country roads for the Ruhr-inhabitants are.
Especially in spring-times, when the season is starting, masses of biker-morons are annoying us locals.
No kidding: when we looked for a house (before we lived in an apartment, nearly besides this road), I told my wife "I only accept a house, far enough away from these through-country-roads. That annoying bike-noise makes me pissed and I will hate it, to scratch off biker-morons from fence or housewall."

French insurance rules are strict about this: when you're going backward, you are automatically responsible, even if you're not in reality. A friend of mine experienced that while going out of a car place, hitting a car that was running too fast in the parking lot (everybody was Ok to say the smash would have been avoid, at a normal speed). It cost her a lot

(At 3:00: police + hospital without insurance money. Most certainly the opposite of what was expected )

I think in Belgium it is similar.
But in the example of the video, the trick is that they want to make it look like the guy rear-ended the BMW. If you do not have an eye-witness to prove that it is the other that was going backwards, it may look like it is you who didn't stop at time. Hence the interest of the dashcam

Exactly. Before dashcams era we had a much more criminal gangs that specialised on road setups. Also in the 90's, there was no compulsory insurance, lot of cases car's damage used/forced to be solved without a law regulation. There was a tons of anecdotes about Zaporojets crashed in the W140 Mercedes, and troubles that driver gets. It made a huge trail in the mind, i think.

These threads have ears....

We aren't so badass like the Russians, although... http://youtu.be/5SrChrU_PNw