RC Car Crash

[caesar]

Had this pop up on my daily news read. sorry if it's been posted already.

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2014/07/25/09/18/remote-controlled-car-travelling-160km-per-hr-smashes-into-man

[RedScampi]

ow!

[Coelacanth]

Honestly, I'm surprised that doesn't happen more often...with easy access to cheap, affordable electronics (though this one seemed to be nitro) and uber-powerful motors, multiple-celled LiPo batteries, anybody with a bit of cash can put together and drive a car capable of performing WAY above their abilities to control and drive it safely.

[tamiya]

meh that's only a LITTLE car

Had a run-in with a Baja 5B.... hurts a heap more!

[klavy69]

personally I like to read the comment sections after stories like this. Sometimes, ok most of the time the keyboard cowboys get kinda entertaining . The one that gets to me is someone putting up a user id as "Large Johnson" making statements about 'grown men playing with toys'

Todd

[besty22]

Had a mate of mine drive his 1/8 twin lipo buggy into another mates shin.
After the car left a jump, made in haste , drunkenly.

A couple of lessons he learnt that day.
1 Dont drink and drive (even RC cars it would seem)
2 having a bunch of drunk blokes make a jump is a bad idea.
3 Its extremely difficult to steer an airborne car.
Lmao