Huge crash in Humalamäki - 1000 Lakes Rally Finland 1984 

Tämän kaadon sitä muistaa loppuikänsä.. Vain paria minuuttia aiemmin seistiin vielä tuolla kivellä mihin tuo Chevellen perä osuu kunnes vaihdettiin tien toiselle puolelle jostain syystä. Kivi ei taida näkyä videolla mutta on se siellä, muistan vieläkin miten kiveen jäi valkoista maalia autosta.

Holy crap, from the first angle I was expecting dozens to have been killed. That is truly amazing no one got killed or even seriously injured in that.

3:13 w123 ambulance jumps also

The fact no-one was killed is a miracle.

I feel bad for the drivers back then who had to drive so close to the crowd. Must be very distracting.

In the eighties everyone stood beside the road, if you did not want to stand there you eighter was called a coward or left at home. The eighties demanded their share of fatalties and severe injuries before people began to understand that they practically were a human damper as a car came flying at you at speeds over 60mph/100kph. That was normal back then, just as we find them crazy now they would find us lame and stupid back then. Part of the thrill was to stand far too close. My friends father was an avid rally fan and he told me of one time he and four of his friends were standing next to the road on a straigt part of the track cars passing to the left from their view. The straight was chosen as: "To really hear the sound as they floored it." One driver with an Opel lost grip at the curb before the straight and smashed into the roadside and clipped the roots of a tree with the left rear end, dropped onto the chassis as the rear suspension came off before the car spun right and flipped up in the air. The car crashed onto the roof about 30-40 metres away from them, then flipped once more and sent all the loose parts flying around. They stood there frozen as no-one thought anyone could crash there. Then they reacted to all the debris flying torwards them. A part of the rear spoiler hit one of them in the head, another one ducked for the same spoiler part and then had some metal tube hit him in the chin and chest. My friends father only stepped to the left to avoid getting hit, but he heard a humming noice his and his cap moved on his head. The last two backed into the forest behind them so they avoided it all. When the car then came skidding, again on its roof, nearing a standstill, they went to check the car (with other spectators, some of them hit by debris as well). My friend father heard a thumping sound to the left and he saw the wheel that had clipped the roots in the crash, still bouncing on the road. He then understood that the wheel had flown off, and passed so close to his head that his cap moved. He said he went into shock that very second, and he had walked straight to their car without a single word said. The drivers made it OK, the guy who was hit by the tube needed some stitches to the chin but overall no-one got severely hurt. My friends father is no longer alive, taken away by illness some years ago but he was a rally fan for his life. He moved futher away and he always stood behind some thick trees just in case. One of the guys who backed into the forest later died beside a racetrack, falling off a transport truck with his motorbike and landing underneath it. So spectate safe! :)

Just showing that Southern Europe wasnt the only place were huge masses of crowd were a problem in that era. Of course these kind of overly crowded + dangerous places were rarer in Finland but only a huge amount of luck prevented this crash ending in tragedy.

My biggest regret in life is not being born 30 years earlier

Note how immediately accident, Muppets flood across the stage all looking the wrong direction. Non-survival of the thickest.

"Nyt meni auto ojaan.."

where do you get this stuff from? your posts are great. did you see madness on wheels earlier this week.awesome stuff

Wait, millions of people die in traffic accidents every year, and this isn't one of them? Not even 1 permanent injury?

Tämä Roderickin kaato on jäänyt mieleen jo pikkupoikana, kun näin sen ekan kerran Keep On Rolling kasetilta. Vieläkin nousee kylmät väreet kun näkee Chevetten lähtevän pyörimään, onneksi ei käynyt tuon pahemmin.

The 80s when half the world had a moustache

1. Thanks for this excellent video, full of facts and not ridden with falsification of useless glose, well presented with chapters and tier clicable time-stamps. This is the best a video can do to help lessen the accidents and their consequences, and increase the progress. 2. I don't share the ones bashing the crowd who came and kept near the track. The fast and secure cars we have enjoyed result from many people, including the drivers who took risks and sometimes died, AND the said crowds who attended, also with their own risks. Let's NOT bash our predecessors: in 1980s and before, people were certainly as prudent and reasonable as now, if not more; simply, because we are far, we don't know well who they were and what they did, we misunderstand them, and misjudge them. 3. I always taught the 4 children I raised and all the young I had to lead, to do what their natural instinct orders and that most humans duly do: *RUSH TO THE ONES IN DISTRESS,* don't mind the hypocrites who call you voyeur, morbid etc. On an accident, there are most often a number of witnesses who do rush, and often some who are able to actually help and eventually to save lives. Those saviors are obviously rarely from the ones admonishing the helpful ones from behind their computer, rather from the ones who, having many times come around and as near as possible from many accidents, have learn a lot about what happens, what does help and what doesn't, up to making them, if fate places them in the right place and time, able to really help and save. 4. Don't be surprised that spectacular accidents are often less deadly than one could fear: the more energy dissipated in spectacular material destruction, the less available to The Reaper for destruction of humans. Mon 29 Aug 2022 19h59 GMT

Billy Severt this was mid 80s you can't compare now to then

I'll never get these crowds so close to the action. No fear

R.I.P Vauxhall Chevette 2300 HSR (48)

I was there watching the rally for the first and only time. We were standing about hundred meters down the road where the cameras were. Terrible crash.

Blame those brainless spectators, who never imagine how dangerous to stand up exterior corners, and when there's jumps... they blame the drivers, heh

Almost looks like the car hit a wall and continued along the side of it. I mean its amazing how it just changed direction!

Seven spectators+drivers injured in the crash, but that is the first and the last time when that kind of crash happened in finland...

Holy cow! Glad it wasn't fatal.

There was safety zone but people ignored that.

There was definately an element of Russian roulette in the crowds in those days.

Funfact: Humalamäki means drunkenhill

Ihme ja kumma on ettei tossa turmassa kukaan menehtynyt.

How the fuck did nobody die?

Sufordie82 It's an Opel. Small version of the famous Manta. Janne Kolsi My former boss at a metal-work shop Karsten Richardt, crashed in the worst accident ever in Finland. Two or three people died. RIP. He had just advanced to international rally and retired after the crash. To this day he still have a Mitsubishi Lancer evo IV rallycar at home.

Que tiempos!! Todo el mundo al borde de la pista,invadiendola para ver,apartándose en el ultimo momento,colocándose a la salida de las curvas...la seguridad brillaba por su ausencia,hoy en dia todo eso seria impensable

wow. incredibly lucky. in one view you can see the car hits a berm just before the crowd that kept it from bouncing into the center of the people. the car flips along the edge of the crowd and most people were able to get out of the way. if that berm hadn't been there, no telling how much worse it could've been.

those are some lucky bastards right there

Stupid idea having crowds of people lining the road! Especially where the cars are getting airborne. A miracle that no one was killed. If the car had rolled instead of flipping end over end basically along the edge of the road it would have been a very tragic outcome.

Never seen so much polyester move so quick.Nearly started a forest fire

crash : 1:24

3:02 lol lada wins the race

2:50 - Malauta

I've never seen this crash before. It was probably censored on American TV.

And the reason why he crashes in first place is problaly partly because driver gets nervous about hitting someone.. why people haft to stand that close i dunno.

The engine crossed the finishing line

Miracle thank jeesus h

People make the best guard rails.

If the rear end had not hit the knoll, the car would have killed many.

Ahhh classic finland

Never seen this from the rear looks so much scarier

What a Finish...

1:38 Risumies sanoo mitä te juoksette?

Meniks se auto ojaan meni?

Mistä ton filmin löytää?

Madness.

Suoraan sanoen vähän ihmetyttää miten kuskit suostui edes ajamaan, kun oli niin iso riski tappaa melkein tiellä seisovia katsojia...

Always wondered what incident changed the rules in Rally driving when it comes to spectators and their safety....maybe this one??

Quite literally RBR moment here.

Olenkin etsiskellyt noita kahta muuta kuvakulmaa. Luulin, että olivat omilla kaseteilla mutta joko muistin väärin tai ovat tuhoutuneet. Pitäisi alkaa muutenkin taas uppimaan materiaalia.

OMG....😳😳😱😧😣

There were many firsts in that decade

à croire qu'en 84'' les gens n'etaient pas conscient du danger !! mais les vitesses augmentent vite..

Imagine running and screaming perrrrrrkeleeeeeee

If in doubt, flat-out.

I understood the word helicopter but that's as far as I got.

Je viens de regard j'espère que sa a pas fait de morts car vue le monde qui était présent et vue la façon don par la voiture je crainte le pire

You've got to be a pretty big pos to take your damn child to one of these events in those days.

Well, thats what happens when you try to rally in a Chevy Chevette.

Oli kyllä hyvää tuuria riittävästi!!! Ois voinu yhtä hyvin olla 20 kuollutta. Ihmettelin jo silloin 6-vuotiaana miks ne menee tielle heti kun auto on menny ohi? Ei vaikutusta tähän mutta ois voinu olla monta kertaa...

roderickia ei olis pitäny päästää rattiin :D

Je donnerai beaucoup pour retourner en 1980

Onkohan toi Paloaukean hyppyri suora enää osana tätä pätkää 🤔🤔 Tänä vuonna tämä legenda tekee paluun 70 vuotis juhlakilpailussa 😃😃😃😃

It could been worse.

Group b is best

if this was carmageddon (pc game) he would have lost:) in rallye, he hmm lost.. hmm, carmageddon and rally have a lot of things in common:d

Perfect stunt.

Holy crap pure luck

"Siel meni auto ojaan" no shit sherlock... mut joo aika uskomatonta et tuolloin, ja vielä nykyäänkin monet katsojat riskeeraavat henknesä olemalla melkeen tiellä.. kait tuo nykyään on parempi mut hurjaa katsottavaahan tuokin video on.

With a little paint it gonna be fine

Second car came around the corner....so funny

same clip over and over and over and over and over and over, then a new clip, then same clip over and over

Tuo 037 Rally on kyllä niin sukkulan näköönen, että ihme kun ei lentoon lähteny nuista hypyistä!

Ihme kun ei kukaan kuollut.

Auto human grinder. Spinning wheel of death.

So that's how you pronounce Ari Vatanen

Tärve Tole Tändspole

very bad

nasty

Olipaha ihmiste oma syy ku hyppii ralleissa tollei tiellä ku ralliautot ajaa yli 100km h!

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Humalamäki in Finnish roughly translates into "Drunk Hill"

Такое стадо😅

Dead person ?

3:00 "Jumalauta, jumalauta - meni auto ojaan" Bangkok-Jomppa www.pattayatoday.net suoraan Thaimaasta

Amateur