So an embarrassing video emerged this week, displaying what could be one of the dumbest accidents ever filmed in Cape Town.

The video takes place at Imam Haron road, Claremont and follows the passengers of two cars seemingly teasing each other, until one driver goes over the top and attempts to speed past the other car – losing control and then totalling into a pole.

SA Dash Cam Adventures posted this on Tuesday and has racked up nearly a thousand more views since I watched it this morning. The timestamp of the video indicates that this all took place on Monday night.

 

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  • Anne Broadway
    Anne Broadway
    July 23, 2015 at 9:35 am

    IDIOT!!!!

  • Timothy Alan Erasmus
    Timothy Alan Erasmus
    July 23, 2015 at 9:42 am

    What a chop! U0001f602U0001f602

  • Ryan Katlego Wallace
    Ryan Katlego Wallace
    July 23, 2015 at 9:47 am

    Why does these things always happen in Claremont?

  • Miranda Engel Hartzenberg
    Miranda Engel Hartzenberg
    July 23, 2015 at 9:50 am

    Cindy-Leigh Echardt

  • Ceri Bee
    Ceri Bee
    July 23, 2015 at 9:52 am

    This is literally outside my house, its such a common thing for people to smack themselves into poles.

  • Norman Otto
    Norman Otto
    July 23, 2015 at 9:59 am

    ten minste het die authorities nou die idiot se reg nr en kan hulle hom charge vir die lamppaal se replacement…. en hom sommer vervolg ook!

  • Brian Hope
    Brian Hope
    July 23, 2015 at 10:03 am

    Since when is 2,572 views on Youtube Viral Cape Town Etc?

  • Justin Williams
    Justin Williams
    July 23, 2015 at 10:07 am

    1000 Youtube views a day for a video 2 days old is viral in South African standards, no? Let’s see how viral it goes over the next 2 days.

  • Justin Williams
    Justin Williams
    July 23, 2015 at 10:07 am

    this is so true 😉

  • Bronwyn Jones
    Bronwyn Jones
    July 23, 2015 at 10:08 am

    But then the one with the dash cam drives on & doesn’t stop to help? Ai!!

  • Matthew Thompson
    Matthew Thompson
    July 23, 2015 at 10:09 am

    Couldn’t agree more Brian U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602

  • Matthew Thompson
    Matthew Thompson
    July 23, 2015 at 10:12 am

    PS. Can’t believe I just wasted a minute of my life watching that rubbish.

  • Brian Hope
    Brian Hope
    July 23, 2015 at 10:12 am

    About as viral as this video released 6 days ago by the Daily Sun.
    Ayanda Matolengwe form Cape Town also went viral this week.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w43eRmlSy_o

  • Janine Paladin
    Janine Paladin
    July 23, 2015 at 10:14 am

    What idiots!

  • CarlisleMarankey
    CarlisleMarankey
    July 23, 2015 at 10:16 am

    Chances are this incident will probably be blamed as being the result of street racing…

  • Brian Hope
    Brian Hope
    July 23, 2015 at 10:18 am

    Justin Williams that is still pretty thin by South African standards.
    The problem, in my honest opinion, is the click bait title that doesn’t reflect reality.

  • Schenelle Bester
    Schenelle Bester
    July 23, 2015 at 10:20 am

    dash-cams is the new IT thing…love it

  • David Farber
    David Farber
    July 23, 2015 at 10:22 am

    Torque steer ftw

  • Brian Hope
    Brian Hope
    July 23, 2015 at 10:22 am

    Video of Otters on Scarboragh Beach Goes VIRAL. At first I was shocked, but then I realised the way I’ve been viewing otters my entire life has been WRONG!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaBSSriuQiQ

  • Matthew Thompson
    Matthew Thompson
    July 23, 2015 at 10:24 am

    Plus, ‘in South African standards’ is not valid – the Internet is global and thus the definition and use of the word ‘viral’ should take this into account.

  • Julian George
    Julian George
    July 23, 2015 at 10:34 am

    a real arshole

  • Justin Williams
    Justin Williams
    July 23, 2015 at 10:41 am

    Brian and Matthew I hear you both, and you have made valid points. I would be a crappy page admin if I didn’t take your feedback, as users, into consideration so therefore the title of this post has been edited to reflect the opinion of you, the user. You’ll probably say that it’s too late, but our team takes notes of valuable feedback as you both have provided and will be applying it going forward.

  • Ebraheem Enos
    Ebraheem Enos
    July 23, 2015 at 10:42 am

    Rizaan Davids Niyaaz Fortune Ridhwaan Abrahams Tahriq Enos look what I found limp U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602U0001f602

  • Justin Williams
    Justin Williams
    July 23, 2015 at 10:42 am

    P.S. Brian, are you the guy who took the reigns over at Evolution Software after I left?

  • Bronson Smith
    Bronson Smith
    July 23, 2015 at 10:43 am

    dam idiots

  • Mark Timms
    Mark Timms
    July 23, 2015 at 10:45 am

    Silly boys.

  • Kelly Zahra Davids
    Kelly Zahra Davids
    July 23, 2015 at 10:46 am

    idiot

  • Brian Hope
    Brian Hope
    July 23, 2015 at 10:48 am

    Hi Justin, Cape Town Etc is rad and I follow a lot of the activity on there. You guys are doing a seriously lekka job. Don’t stress about by comments, the click bait title just bothers me.
    I took it too far with the Otter video and I apologise for that 😀

  • Justin Williams
    Justin Williams
    July 23, 2015 at 10:50 am

    Cheers Brian, thank you. I believe that any feedback is good feedback, especially when it comes from a user in works in the digital space. Appreciate the good vibes, have a rad day!

  • Matthew Thompson
    Matthew Thompson
    July 23, 2015 at 10:54 am

    I echo Brian’s praise of your platform above – I am based in London and it is an awesome way of keeping in touch… Keep up the good work Justin.

  • Keagan Hansby
    Keagan Hansby
    July 23, 2015 at 10:55 am

    Iditos

  • Shuaib Adams
    Shuaib Adams
    July 23, 2015 at 10:55 am

    Here I was thinking what was going on, why the world of cops and ambulance was standing there. Dumnuts, now car enthusiasts will be blamed because there is a Honda in the mix

  • Alet Swarts
    Alet Swarts
    July 23, 2015 at 10:56 am

    Idiot.

  • Robert Lloyd
    Robert Lloyd
    July 23, 2015 at 10:56 am

    Matthew Jerard Geldenhuys

  • Cher Morris
    Cher Morris
    July 23, 2015 at 10:59 am

    Can-dee Palmer Wallace

  • Ian Belknap
    Ian Belknap
    July 23, 2015 at 11:02 am

    Ha. What a doos.

  • Brendon Bain
    Brendon Bain
    July 23, 2015 at 11:06 am

    CY

  • Sizwe Khura Mngxunyeni
    Sizwe Khura Mngxunyeni
    July 23, 2015 at 11:06 am

    one word ” TSHOTSHO”

  • Can-dee Palmer Wallace
    Can-dee Palmer Wallace
    July 23, 2015 at 11:12 am

    Stupid

  • Hilton Jacobs
    Hilton Jacobs
    July 23, 2015 at 11:19 am

    Lmimc… level of stupidity is amaizing.. Andrew Petersen Nathaneal Richards

  • Carolyn Katzeff
    Carolyn Katzeff
    July 23, 2015 at 11:25 am

    Idiot

  • Rob Dearham
    Rob Dearham
    July 23, 2015 at 11:32 am

    V-Tec kicked in yo….

  • Justin Williams
    Justin Williams
    July 23, 2015 at 11:46 am

    Rock on guys, thank you!

  • Samantha G. Reynolds Phillips
    Samantha G. Reynolds Phillips
    July 23, 2015 at 11:50 am

    So sillyU0001f648U0001f649U0001f64a

  • Cathy Boer
    Cathy Boer
    July 23, 2015 at 11:56 am

    Ja, ne…’n kar is nie ” n speelding nie!

  • Alastair Mason
    Alastair Mason
    July 23, 2015 at 11:58 am

    I hope this video was passed on to the police.

  • Zubair Badroodien
    Zubair Badroodien
    July 23, 2015 at 11:59 am

    Ridar Cerff Ziyaad Allie Ismaeel Gamieldien

  • Henniefiona Lombard
    Henniefiona Lombard
    July 23, 2015 at 12:18 pm

    complete idiots.no pity for them whatso ever

  • Russel Moss
    Russel Moss
    July 23, 2015 at 12:51 pm

    Dronk… idiots . Karma!

  • Benita Hendrickse
    Benita Hendrickse
    July 23, 2015 at 12:51 pm

    Stupid……

  • Jeanette Delport
    Jeanette Delport
    July 23, 2015 at 12:59 pm

    Idiot….

  • Ridhaa Gamiet
    Ridhaa Gamiet
    July 23, 2015 at 1:21 pm

    when you do stupid thing dont be surprized with the results

  • Christopher Rademeyer
    Christopher Rademeyer
    July 23, 2015 at 1:35 pm

    Some Brakpan kids on holiday

  • Shaun Ferreira
    Shaun Ferreira
    July 23, 2015 at 1:37 pm

    Lmimcu wat a doos….

  • Pauline Hare
    Pauline Hare
    July 23, 2015 at 1:41 pm

    Well that’s an idiot for you.

  • Shams Sayed
    Shams Sayed
    July 23, 2015 at 1:58 pm

    Haha finest idiots around.. Honda and Toyota ..

  • Hope She Real-TheGemini Rose
    Hope She Real-TheGemini Rose
    July 23, 2015 at 2:04 pm

    I think it was a hijacking attempt gone wrong…this is how they get you lately

  • Luke Chalupsky
    Luke Chalupsky
    July 23, 2015 at 2:23 pm

    Mischka Dean

  • Cheralyn Cher'ry Murray
    Cheralyn Cher'ry Murray
    July 23, 2015 at 2:32 pm

    stupid fvck face!!!

  • Joe Scheckle
    Joe Scheckle
    July 23, 2015 at 2:39 pm

    V-Tec in a Honda. VVT-i for Toyota.

  • Anette Du Preez
    Anette Du Preez
    July 23, 2015 at 2:51 pm

    …2 cars already at the scene…

  • Anwar Ismail
    Anwar Ismail
    July 23, 2015 at 3:40 pm

    Love the way the driver with the dash cam just keeps on driving. And I’m not being sarcastic.

  • Etienne Van Tonder
    Etienne Van Tonder
    July 23, 2015 at 3:46 pm

    Sean Curtis

  • Alexei Saraev
    Alexei Saraev
    July 23, 2015 at 4:15 pm

    Doos

  • Rachmat Heuvel Jacobs
    Rachmat Heuvel Jacobs
    July 23, 2015 at 4:43 pm

    Fokof and stay off

  • Sierra Dwyer
    Sierra Dwyer
    July 23, 2015 at 4:52 pm

    That stupid #%^* just went TURBO!!! U0001f602U0001f602

  • Stephen Allcock
    Stephen Allcock
    July 23, 2015 at 5:04 pm

    In defense of whoever the driver with the dashcam was, the clip stops literally less than 100m from the Claremont SAPS station so they might have stopped there. The bad driving on that stretch is truly something to behold though!

  • Estelle Woolls-King
    Estelle Woolls-King
    July 23, 2015 at 6:24 pm

    Stupid

  • Joanne Emma Martin
    Joanne Emma Martin
    July 23, 2015 at 6:45 pm

    Sherry Martin

  • Bronwyn Jones
    Bronwyn Jones
    July 23, 2015 at 7:25 pm

    Admittedly, there are several sides to a story, and I don’t have all the facts, but I posted my comment based on what I would have done…and it appears the driver didn’t stop to help? However, helped by posting the video to provide a public service? Nay

  • Wiedaad Petersen Jardien
    Wiedaad Petersen Jardien
    July 23, 2015 at 8:26 pm

    What a doos. @1:00. Tashreeq Jock Jardien

  • Reitta Stubbs Neil
    Reitta Stubbs Neil
    July 23, 2015 at 9:07 pm

    Andrew Green

  • Janine Gray
    Janine Gray
    July 23, 2015 at 9:15 pm

    I swear officer the lamp just jumped right in front of my car !! LOL

  • Rory Blanckenberg
    Rory Blanckenberg
    July 23, 2015 at 10:38 pm

    Hos-Ja

  • Olivia Bell
    Olivia Bell
    July 24, 2015 at 12:37 am

    With a 911 licence plateU0001f602U0001f602

  • Max Heinrich
    Max Heinrich
    July 24, 2015 at 1:54 am

    I hope this is shared with the police and this person looses their license with a fine. Because of their foolishness, they nearly had a head on crash with an innocent motorist. Truely juvenile and I hope it is shared far and wide to stop this sort of thing.

  • Moenieb Gamieldien
    Moenieb Gamieldien
    July 24, 2015 at 6:19 am

    Nazir Mohamed

  • Rudi Kurt
    Rudi Kurt
    July 24, 2015 at 7:24 am

    Ahhh…this is when that lovely word “doos” delights in its usage…

  • Paul Kelly
    Paul Kelly
    July 24, 2015 at 8:24 am

    I would also not have stopped. I think that had i stopped i might just have bliksemed both drivers for being irriesponsible and wreckless.
    I hope that the driver of the car that was narrowly missed, also just drove on. The f$#€ idiot did not deserve to be helped. There is no medication for stupid.

  • Graham Van Heerden
    Graham Van Heerden
    July 24, 2015 at 8:35 am

    Daft….

  • Kristian McDougall
    Kristian McDougall
    July 24, 2015 at 9:03 am

    Haha what a loser. Would love to hear his statement to the police and insurance assessor.

  • Bronwyn Jones
    Bronwyn Jones
    July 24, 2015 at 9:46 am

    What if we played a guessing game and assumed the (playful at first, and then wreckless) driver, in that moment, had a heart/asthma/hypoglycaemic attack? And I’m not just referring to this incident, but every other …. Anyways – each to their own.

  • Matthew Thompson
    Matthew Thompson
    July 24, 2015 at 11:33 am

    PS. I think you predicted its virality guys! It now has circa 54k views which is a bit more worthy of that status 😉 humble pie eaten!

  • Justin Williams
    Justin Williams
    July 24, 2015 at 11:35 am

    Thanks Matthew 🙂 Fully understood where you were coming from though! Cheers for the message, have a wicked Friday!

  • Brian Hope
    Brian Hope
    July 24, 2015 at 11:40 am

    Ah Justin, you are on the ball! Great stuff!

  • Justin Williams
    Justin Williams
    July 24, 2015 at 11:41 am

    Thanks man 🙂

  • Ashleigh Harris
    Ashleigh Harris
    July 24, 2015 at 1:06 pm

    Kelly McBride Megan Vd Munckhof Liz Rose Jacobs so close to home U0001f623

  • Andrew Hartung
    Andrew Hartung
    July 24, 2015 at 10:32 pm

    I hope that the insurance company doesn’t pay out for stupidity

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