Why Do Drunk People Survive Car Crashes More?
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- There are seemingly never ending news stories involving the mug shot of a drunk driver mostly unharmed after getting in an accident. Meanwhile, their victims are left fighting for their lives, or worse, already dead. The perception from this is that somehow being drunk will protect you from sustaining injuries in the event of a car crash or some other trauma. As to why, the commonly held idea is that the more relaxed you are in your drunken stupor, the less likely you will be to get injured. As to why, the general idea often put forth is that you’ll bend and contort into whatever shape the accident puts you in without fighting it. Stiffening up prevents your ability to fold like a pretzel and makes all your inner bits tense. Thus, you snap like a twig, injuring yourself more readily and severely. But is any of this actually true? Are drunk drivers actually less likely to be injured than their vastly more responsible compatriots?
It turns out there are indeed many studies on the topic that show you have a greater chance of survival from trauma should alcohol be in your system. That said, other studies show overall mortality can be as much as 2-fold higher if you have alcohol on board. So, which is correct and is the whole floppy drunk thing actually protecting you?
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“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car. Will Rogers
Words can’t explain how much I love that quote.
Hilarious!
This is morbidly hilarious. I lol'd for real!!!
@@floo1465 ok. Was the "Grandfather" a busdriver? I think I remember a Quote like this.
Classic. Didn't know the source.
"THOUGH WE SHOULD ALSO POINT OUT that it DRASTICALLY INCREASE your chances of getting in that traumatic event in the FIRST PLACE" LOL
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to all of life’s problems.
Oh I was young and dumb and living the dream.I wasn't just drinking that night, I actually didn't feel any pain until the next day.the 90's were fun🍻
So ture. Alcohol resulted in plenty of trauma during my adolescence but was without a doubt the reason that I survived it. It's like that big buddy that you had that would punch you out and then pick you up and dust you off.
@JoeCaissy this is mentioned in the video.
The takaway for this is that the driver should be stone sober and the passengers completely sloshed.
GazB that was the stupidest reasoning ever and we actually have lyft and Uber and 20 other apps to get a ride for cheaper
@@hlw2499 edit again :)) pls, makes no sense. "Do you own a computer? No I own a Mac".
WHEW! GOD DAMN IT EARLY.
That's how I roll with my friends. Designated driver cuzz I don't drink!
Some Random Guy lmao taxis have gotten so much cheeper bc of lyft and uber
In my city of Austin on Memorial Weekend a couple of years ago there was a horrific crash when a drunk driver crossed the median driving a Jeep Wrangler, crashed into a Fiat Abarath containing family of 4 vacationing in my city who were heading to the airport to catch a flight back home to California. The sole survivor in that Fiat was little girl who lost both her parents instantly and her brother a few days later in hospital and on impact the drunk driver (who wasn't wearing a seat belt) flew his windshield, landed like a rag doll on the road and was able to walk away with just a bump on his head. Anytime I pass on that stretch I always think of them and for gods sake people please don't drive drunk.
unfortunately not so easy to drive sober. There are several things to consider. First, is that millions of people drive drunk and never get into an accident. The statistics say that, for example, 1/5 of accidents are due to drunk driving(i dont know the exact statistic). However, what the statistics forget to mention, is that approximately 1/5 of people on the road had been drinking. So if 1/5 of drivers are drunk on the road, and 1/5 of accidents are caused by drunk driving, this means that driving drunk does not (significantly) impede one's driving performance
Second, its just pretty expensive to not drive drunk. Sure, one may argue that a DUI costs tens of thousands of dollars and so its cheaper not to risk getting one, but such an argument is a slippery-slope. One could, for example, couter argument this argument with "well, if you eat healthy and cook at home you will save thousands and improve your health, so why are you here at mcdonalds?". Most people drive drunk because of necessity. My friend constantly drives home or wherever drunk but he is a good driver. But he cant take an uber because, well, that basically means he'd have to spend an additional $50 and then next day spend time looking for his car.
Third, sober people cause accidents, too. Matter of fact the vast, vast majority of motor vehicle accidents are caused by non-drunk drivers. I worked at a personal injury law firm and maybe for like every 50 cases we had, out of those 50 there was maybe 1 case which had a drunk driver involved. This is pretty low considering that many drivers drive after drinking
Fourth, some studies say that driving drunk actually improves your driving in the sense that drunk people oftentimes will go the extra mile not to speed. If I get behind the wheel after drinking, for example, I am not going to exceed the speed limit because I wouldnt want the cops to stop me for speeding and then charge me with a DUI. But if I am sober, I wouldnt mind going the usual 15 over the limit with my music blasting
Drunk drivers are simply a scapegoat and the threat is exaggerated. The chances of being a victim of a drunk driver are very slim, but in every other movie someone's parents or wife died "due to a car crash/drunk driver". Drunk drivers are sort of like paedophiles or corrupted racist cops: there are very few of them/or there is almost no threat to any one individual, but the media makes it out as if this is where all our problems come from
Not saying drunk driving should be allowed, but the threat should not be exaggerated because it then becomes a lie.
Yes that was so very sad. Her newly adopted dad/ uncle gives the ‘Every 15 mins’ talk to our high school students!!
Artyom Arty Not driving drunk isn’t expensive. Step one: Don’t drink.
Artyom Arty Why the fuck are you trying to encourage drunk driving? If there were less drunk drivers there would be less horrible accidents such as this one? Yes? Also don’t compare your drunken state to general populace. Not to mention how much of threat changes on how drunk you are. If you’re hammered you probably wouldn’t even bother being careful. Also I don’t see what’s so bad with that lie, in many drivers Ed courses the dangers of driving is heavy overexaggerated in order to scare new teen drivers. Is it kind of lying yes? It it potentially making teens drive safer? Yes, and that’s worth the lie
Also while drunk driving accidents are less common, when they do happen they are more oftener fatal
@@artyomarty391 I agree today's laws do not go after truly drunk drivers, but anybody who has consumed alcohol before driving. The laws are not about safety but are used as a tool for the state to collect revenue. When the new laws started working to reduce drivers with alcohol in their system they had to start the open container law to keep the money flowing in to the state. This was taught by risk reduction classes to be factual.
Some drunk guy with a 0.16 BAC hit me going 80 mph according to witnesses. He survived, and got out of his destroyed truck and pissed on it. I'm dead and posting from hell.
How's the Internet in hell? Will you get a gigabit?
@@PWN3DU01 It's slow.
@@briancrawford8751
Dialup sux
@@PWN3DU01
No, a terrorbit
@@PWN3DU01 You should consider getting burried along with 10 kilometers of optic fiber. Thisi sn't cheap, and requires you to get a bigger coffin; Don't get cremated, the optic fiber will melt, and your remains will get mixed with plastic, which seems inconvenient.
Floppy as your grandpa before Viagra....
IM OUT
Your out but he's going in
🤔🤢🤮🤣😂🤣
Lmfao too funny
...and in and out and in...
@@MusicFangTeaLover OOF!!
I work as a firefighter/emt in Florida for 8 years. In my experience the drunk always survives with minor injuries while the other vehicles passengers die. I’ve seen it so many times that I’ve lost track.
Thank you for your work. Seeing that injustice time after time would demoralize me.
And this is one of the reasons why i dont believe in karma
Also i think firefighters are the true heros
So my thinking also is... how often is it that the drunk is speeding straightforward at the other car while all the other cars going in some other direction? I know that cars are designed so that when they hit something straight on all the safety devices kick into play.
When you're in a car that's been rear-ended you have far less protection because I know that they don't test for survivability in that type of crash.
Then there's a case of a woman I met years ago. Very cheerful very drunk and pretty enough. Back when I was young and reasonably handsome. I'd been at some art showing where she showed up like that.... she was going through an intersection that evening, and someone T-boned her vehicle where she died instantly. She was driving a pickup truck and the other driver struck her left side.
@@rogersheddy6414 My thoughts exactly. The drunk driver causing the accident is almost always in the situation where the car provides the most energy dissipation, straight and forward collision, the victim often not.
@@rogersheddy6414 I hit a Jeep with my Honda CRX, one of the lightest cars on the road. My Honda cut that jeep in half, I was able to drive the Honda home.
"As floppy as your grandpa before Viagra" hit me completely out of the blue. My brain didn't even register it until like 2 seconds after the fact.
Well done, Simon. Well done.
Do those two seconds of not thinking of your grandpa, rock-hard, feel like an eternity to you, now?
I'm drunk at the moment, and have suffered no harm while watching this video
Are you limp and floppy?
It works if you work it.
I’m sober and couldn’t get past 2 and a half minutes before stopping lest I completely lose the will to live on which I currently have a very weak hold.
You can write really well for someone who is “drunk at the moment”.
@@howyoudurrinhunneh I'm looking at a bald guy in glasses, what do you think?
"I was drunk."
-TF2 Demoman when asked how he survived a nuclear detonation
ten thousand years of evolution I see ?
Since it's relevant, I have pics of an old *ridiculous* car wreck from August 1984. The drunk hit a tree hard enough (and just right) to push the engine 45 degrees sideways to the right, and he fell through the floor of the car and got his boot stuck between the car frame and tree, but he lived (though he had hypothermia.) The car did not catch on fire.
Here are the pics, they're of the 1975 Ford Wagon. I have more pics on the same board.
www.pinterest.com/austinlucas7543/car-wrecks/
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I have this nice car
How did you just make a tf2 joke in 2020 without cringing
I find it unlikely that Demoman was ever sober...
well in Sweden we have a saying... "Infants and drunks never gets hurt when they fall" and like you say, it's becaus they don't have the reaction to tention up befor a fall or a accident =)
Thanks for a nice episode as usuall
We have a similar saying in the USA, "God takes care of drunks and idiots".
I've x-rayed plenty of patients with broken bones and alcohol on board.
I thought I broke my penis but found out it was due to aging.
@@hashtag415 I am old, too. but mine actually is less prone to breaking now than 20 years ago - in fact I could now tie it into a knot...
@@x-rayscott3409 patients or dead body?
Based on my non-scientific but extremely extensive experience As a Firefighter/Paramedic with over 26 years in the fire service, the majority of Motor Vehicle crashes involving DUI resulted in the intoxicated individual receiving minor to no injuries. I have been involved in approximately 800 + dui-related motor vehicle crashes.
I'm guessing because most crashes occur before a drunk driver can leave the parking lot?
@@pierrecurie NO!! ALL on the open road. Single to multiple vehicles involved. In many of the multiple vehicle MVC's, the non-drinking parties sustained moderate-extensive injuries and/or fatality and the intoxicated operator 'walked away' uninjured. My response area includes interstate, 4 lane highways and secondary roadways.
We run a heavy rescue unit with 2 Hurst extrication tools aka "The Jaws of Life", air bags, stabilization equipment and an extensive array of other tools.
@dothemathright 1111 lol, there have been a few times that I would have loved to initiate a little 'street justice' to some of the intoxicated knuckleheads. The ignorance and sometime arrogance is sickening.
Could it be that steering wheel airbags are more effective?
Or that the drunks wear seat belts to hush the beeps while the passengers don't wear them at all?
Horrible stuff nonetheless
I've been a cop for 30+ years,and I endorse this observation. It's not just a cliche
It is kinda easy: they become the liquid.
" I am the liquor"
-Jim "the trailer park supervisor" Lahey
We don't need all the information in this video!
"Just let the liquor do the thinking" - Jim Lahey
If Neo was an alcoholic! 😂
Bim jeam
Bruce Lee: "Become water."
I always figured it was that the drunk driver was more likely to be the person who hit the other car, meaning that they had the whole front of the car to protect them, whereas the sober person who got hit just had the relatively flimsy car doors between them and the other car.
That's actually the true answer tbh and same goes for the rear
Couldn't one of the reasons that being drunk numbs and reduces panicking? I mean when you get injured and start panicking your heart rate increases and you bleed faster or even pass out from the shock and panic. Another way could be that since you're feeling less pain thus producing less adrenaline and maintaining a lower heart rate and blood pressure. We should ask Dr. Mike
That's a good point! I didn't realize it till some time after, but I was hyperventilating when my appendix asploded and it was no fun. Being calm during crazy stuff always helps.
8:15 ish.
I can’t get a tattoo with my artist if I have had more than a beer or so. This is because of alcohols tendency to thin the blood.
Good hypothesis though. I would also agree the lack of coherent reaction has something to do with survival rates.
Nah when youre drunk your blood is extra thin so you bleed more so your theory is overruled
Was a drunk PASSENGER in an accident. Should have died according to med professionals. I was just comatized for 3 days...
Gumby in an earthquake was funny....
3 days lol
Tbi patient
Passenger in a drunk driving wreck
Comatose almost 2 weeks
@@MidwestDankAlumni Didn't realize this was a competition.
I was 1 of 2 drunk passengers and the driver was sober. The car went through a guard rail at about 60mph sideways. Went airborne. While airborne it struck a telephone pole causing it to spin multiple times. We landed in a heap in a field. No one died or even injured. We all walked away. Although the other passenger developed PTSD. She couldn't get inside of a vehicle for 2 years without going into complete hysterics. For another couple of years, she would hyper ventilate the entire time she was in a vehicle but if in longer then a few minutes she would try to jump out even if the vehicle was moving. Lost track of her, so I don't know if she ever recovered.
Sounds like you got off easy.
I was just thinking that a passanger would be safer than a sober driver. Because sober would buckle you up!
@@toriladybird511 both people up front in my wreck were buckled in,
Car rolled in my direction, so I took the brunt. First responders called 1 DOA(me) over the radio.
I had the bruise from the seatbelt to prove what sest I was in too.
Thing lacerated my spleen.
And fyi-TBI stands for TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY don't dare say I got off easy OP
@@timothyneiswander3151 sorry for your friend.
Sounds like a shitty driver tbh, designated driver wrecks car driving 2 drunk ppl home.
No one injured and I got lucky?
Shattered elbow, broken pelvis and clavicle, fractured vertebrae, split spleen, traumatic brain injury .
You're the lucky one here.
Simon: "as sober as a Catholic priest on Sunday"
Me: *a Catholic priest will do multiple shots of wine during the celebration of 2 or more masses on a Sunday* "So... A bit warm to maybe tipsy?"
And feel up a couple choirboys....ooh, couldnt resist
That's what I was thinking. Not Catholic and never have been, but I know Catholics have wine with communion.
@@McFlingleson My Church actually used Grape Juice for Communion. But that's a different Christianity branch altogether.
He was being facetious - they're *always* drunk.
@ l fancied my priest and he never touched *me* 😭
I once had a discussion with a co-worker who loved to drink and drive. I was arguing that he was likely to get into a crash if he kept doing it. His counter-argument was that he drives a huge truck with a reinforced steel bumper, so he would be just fine in a crash. I gave up trying to convince him at that point.
Still, it does lend to another possible explanation for the common tale of the drunk who walks away unscathed from a multiple-fatality wreck that he caused. I have no idea if people who drive drunk are statistically more likely to drive larger, tougher vehicles, but it is food for thought.
It might be best to find a way to report him to the police or your boss or someone.
I might have survived an accident while sober by getting drunk. While sober I had a heavy bikecrash in which I hit my head severely. I continued my way to a friends birthday party at the bar he owns, where I got completely drunk. Next day arriving at work I was thinking I had a recordbreaking hangover, but collegues said I should go to hospital to get a check. Arriving at the hospital is the last thing I can remember as I was comatized for 19 days with severe head injuries (3 brain haemorrhages and multiple skull fractures were the worst of them). When I woke up and was able to tell the doctors what happened, they told me that getting drunk might have saved my life, because it prevented my brain from stressing out over what just happened, causing more damage. I was declared fit again after just 3 months, where normally with such injuries that would probably take double that. Also I suffered no after effects at all, which is uncommon after suffering such injuries.
"as sober as a Catholic priest on a Sunday..."
And that's when I once again realized I had an unusual childhood.
*Edit; I did not get molested, but our pastor had a very bubbly personality...I didn't realize until I was older that he was tipsy every single Sunday.
A little too much church wine
The priest asked me if I wanted to be an alterboy.
Now I look back and wonder
Was he hitting on me?
@jay
Benjamin Franklin
😂 😂 😂
No Catholic priest is sober on Sunday! Where do people get these things from? Priests are drinking during the mass it’s required 😂
Regardless of severity of your injury, you are certainly more likely to get it into an accident if you are drunk!
Got drunk, called a taxicab, accident ensued.
I'm sorry. Being drunk did make the accident more likely.
Hummm good one. though we were talking about driving, not being driven.
Also statistics don’t work like that.
I always assumed it has to do with the fact most drunk driver accidents involve the drunk person driving they run into something with the point of contact is the front of there car with the engine block absorbing more energy from the accident then the back/ side of the car they hit
toasted waffle I was going to say the exact same thing
Interesting
toasted waffle my assumption was always the driver has more safety features in place than someone in the back and slightly greater than the passenger next to them.
A car's engine moves out of the way in a crash, allowing the structure to deform and absorb the energy of the collision. Before cars were designed this way, the engine block would end up trapping the driver and breaking his legs.
Not quite the "engine block" but yes the front end crash scenario is most protected for the driver for a few reasons. The drunk driver, causing the crash, will almost always be in that situation. The victim might get t-boned, or any variety of offset crash scenarios. Very surprised this was not mentioned.
“Sober as a Catholic Priest on Sunday”😂😂😂
16dublin Leif yeah but then he said ‘floppier than your grandpa before viagra’ .. 😂
Obviously ignorant of tried and true Catholic tradition. I mean, what's the one thing you have to have if you get four Catholics into a room together?
A fifth.
drinking wine on sunday is literally part of the religion
Their whole religion is based on a "wine bibber," afterall... 🤣
There was an old Irish priest at the church I went to as a kid, outside of Sunday service he always had a beer in his hand and some green “St. Patrick’s Day” style t shirt with a quirky or inappropriate saying on it. I asked him once why he was always drinking ( I was around 6 or 7 years old). He said that the beer he drank made him honest and to never trust a sober priest! 😂🤣😂 my dad and I thought it was hilarious, my grandmother , not so much.😂
60 years ago one of my uncle falls asleep while driving a mid '50 Chevy truck. When the truck left the road and hit a tree he slid to the floor and walked away with minor bruises. The steering wheel was driven into the seat cushion (Yay pre-collapsing steering wheels) and would have killed him if he had stayed seated like a conscious/sober person.
After having heard/read the anecdotes from various vehicle accidents over and over, and also having studied vehicular accidents as part of my job, what's really happening is that, while the drunk driver may have caused a collision with another set of innocent people by being distracted, having tunnel vision, and/or simply reacting too slowly -- once aware of a potential accident, they STILL WERE ABLE TO ACT TO MITIGATE THE WORSE IMPACT SCENARIO for themselves. Sadly, the innocent parties involved are not as prepared for what is going to happen, and/or are constrained by simply trying to stay in their lane, and are therefore dealt with more severe consequences by how they are literally impacted by the drunk driver's vehicle.
As an example, drunk drivers are more likely to drift into an oncoming lane of traffic. They will tend to do this at a shallow angle, which will tend to glance off of the other vehicle. The more you can convert potential energy into kinetic energy, the less of a sudden deceleration you will have to endure, which is the primary cause of the snapping and crushing of your body parts. On the flip side (pun intended), the victims in the other vehicle are not aware that the other driver is drunk, and are more likely to bang on the horn and/or slam on the brakes, while staying in their lane, pointed straight ahead, versus engaging in last second avoidance maneuvers. Therefore, their deceleration as a result of impact will be far more extreme, as there is far less bounce and/or roll (with seat belts fastened, hopefully) to lessen the chance of impact with the windshield and/or being crushed as the vehicle becomes significantly shorter in length (which airbags cannot help you with).
On the topic of airbags, I'd like to add the case of my coworker being T-boned while he was legally making a left hand turn at a green light, but after a real cop had already been through the red light to attend to a robbery in progress at a nearby gas station, his meter-man buddy decided to try to follow him through, and instead, killed my coworker, crushing him -- by hitting the driver's side door, perpendicularly, with the front bumper of his vehicle. No airbag would have helped, BUT, if my coworker's car had had the feature of being able to independently raise and lower his suspension at each corner of his vehicle, he could have rolled and survived (he was properly strapped in with his seat belt). Instead of implementing this feature, my employer simply closed that exit from our facility, and made everyone drive 1/4 mile further to each morning and evening.
Why? They were still wincing from the rollover controversy caused by a last minute swap in of hard, brittle rubber from their tire supplier. With only one month to go before production, they couldn't rebuild the (non-actively-adjustable) suspension to provide a softer ride, so they lowered the air pressure in the tires. This was fine for normal, flexible rubber, but it resulted in splits in the sidewall of the substandard stiff rubber tires. At high speed around turns in very hot weather, the tire might burst. Again, instead of causing that supplier to go into bankruptcy, the Feds instead made it mandatory for all tires to have sensors that tell you if your tire inflation is low. Not only do we all ignore these warnings, due to high false alarm rates, but they are still completely useless in telling us that our rubber suppliers are negligent crooks, and so they will do nothing to prevent an exploded tire. In fact, this tire inflation sensor is vulnerable to disruptive hacking (they just need to disrupt, not access) by a passing terrorist in a vehicle driving near you, causing your traction control to overcompensate for an inflation problem that doesn't exist. So, the vehicle company then has to increase their backup failure strategies, plus layers of software security, which they partially achieve by hiring a supplier, who adds software no one at the vehicle manufacturer has the course code for.
In the meantime, tractor trailers, off-road mining vehicles, and military vehicles have all been dynamically modifying their suspensions, for many years now, to maintain stability in the face of unstable road surfaces on one side versus the other, extreme potholes, and impacts from others trying to bumper car you off of your intended path. My former employer does, however, vertically modify their suspensions now to mitigate the damage from potholes, because it helps reduce warranty claims. Just not to encourage a rollover for a belted in driver who faces certain death from a t-bone collision. Because, "optics."
So, in an alternate reality, if my coworker were to make that very same green arrow left hand turn today, and get run into his driver's side door by that same over eager meter-man -- he'd still die. And if that meter-man were drunk, odds are still likely he'd walk away unscathed, because, while still crushing my coworker and killing him, he'd likely have made enough of a steering response to make a glancing blow for himself, rolling, or even just bouncing off of my coworker. Another reason for this, is that, for decades, regulations drove vehicles to survive head-on impacts into walls. Only in the last 2 decades did they even start to care about rear-ends and t-bones, but never at the same speeds.
Hope this helps better explain why drunks (and other over zealous drivers, causing the accidents) often walk away in far better shape than their victims.
I agree the drunk person causing the accident will, in almost every scenario, drive into something going forward and usually straight on, which is the most protected scenario due to the design of crumple zones, seat belts, and airbags. The victim on the other hand might get t-boned, or any variety of offset crash scenarios, not to mention passengers being involved as well. Very surprised this was not mentioned.
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Love the detail, very informative. Thankyou
@@tacklecentralfishing1051 super confusing also.
This was an eerily timed video. Here in California we just had a drunk driver who killed 3 kids convicted to 51 years to life. I’ve been thinking about it a lot because I drive Uber. I remember that night, I was less than half a mile away from the crash and heard it. I passed them. I was probably, unknowingly, the last person to see them alive, and 20 seconds later, they were gone. It’s aggravating, because that night was slow, I was there and so were other drivers, looking for passengers. She didn’t call us and now she will never marry, have kids, and she’ll be 80 if she ever gets out. Those 3 kids are dead. Whatever made her survive, her life is nonetheless over.
I'd say, probable because cars are built to take direct/linear collisions. Have car A hit metal slab B, or have a moving slab B hit car A.
A drunk person is less likely to try and avoid the collision, so hits directly.
The sober driver in contrast, is trying to swerve to avoid, putting the car at a more awkward angle(in terms of location his, and momentum). It's like why they say if you are going to hit a dog, or deer, it is better to not try and make a sudden turn, as that can destabilize the car.
After I wrecked my car on Ambien, my attorney told me the Ambien saved my life. He said that if I had moved in the process of rolling my car I would have gotten seriously injured or killed. I should not have been able to walk out of the hospital without treatment. If you ever get prescribed Ambien, Lunesta, or Sonata, leave your keys in a drawer. It’s rare, but people can take it and get into car crashes and not remember a thing, even if they are certain they would never drive under the influence. “sleep-driving” is sometimes listed as a side effect, depending on the resource. I’m lucky to not have a criminal record or severe injuries.
I wonder if the studies took habitual heavy drinking into account and how that would affect the body's ability to survive trauma. My alcoholic father fell down stairs (and everywhere else) dozens of times and never had more than scrapes and bruises.
Same thing. You won’t be smacking it as hard trying to stop yourself so you’re not getting a lot of energy transferred into those impacts
I got into a wreck once while blackout drunk. My passenger was every bit as drunk as I was. He lived... After they reattached his arm, patched the hole in his skull and put his eye back in its socket. I wish it was more common for people who have done things like this to say they will never drink again. But that is where I am today, some 20 years later. I never wanted to hurt anyone else. Myself, I was fine with. But hurting someone else... I never wanted that at all. And I will never harm another person while drunk ever again, I can guarantee that now. Because I don't drink anymore.
Note: Do not judge me too harshly, there were other circumstances that night that I did not mention.
One of the more fascinating videos ever. Thank you!
When I went to Catholic school back in the late 60-'s early 70's our parish priest was hard core alcoholic, we were pretty sure he was never stone sober on Sunday morning!
Guy Orsini Does anyone believe a sober person would choose to be celibate for life? Haha
I’ve been watching Simon on business blaze a lot recently and it’s weird seeing him like this.
Yeah where at first business blaze videos were weird because I had seen his other channels for so long, now I know: Only Business Blaze Simon Is *script-slap* Real Simon,
Nroke1 I had never heard of business blaze, so I looked it up....I clicked on a random video (this was the one about the dot.com bubble which he posted in November of 2019) and by a fun coincidence, Simon was wearing the same exact shirt as this video...in fact, he looked so similar in glasses, shirt, amount of facial hair, etc. that it looked like he filmed both videos on the same day....fun fun fun, so I don’t have time to watch any business blaze videos right now because I have to get ready for church, but from the little I did see it seems that other channel is business/economics related? With a name like Business Blaze, my first thought was it is a channel where Simon gets really high and talks about business....am I close? I hope so. 🥳😜
@riceracm - yes, you’re correct on both counts😂
great video!
I've seen this first hand, several times. As a firefighter, I occasionally respond to accidents where one or more drivers are legally intoxicated walking around, apparently fine, while the sober person is in serious condition either by being trapped in the vehicle or extensive injuries.
Good thong we bigfoots never drive anyway so I don't really have to worry about getting injured in any wrecks
Just be careful crossing the roads Harry..I mean you do know the Hendersons right or maybe that was another bigfoot and I'm wrong for assuming it was you and thinking you all look the same 🤔
Yeah, good thong
Lol you're everywhere
thong is showing, bigfoot
Try a G-string. You'll get more tips.
I would think maybe the pain reduction associated with alcohol has a positive impact on your body’s reaction to trauma.
Very well read, Simon.
I like this channel, so clean and organized.. plus I love the short intros
They are more relaxed. I was in a bad wreck years ago. Within milliseconds I knew that their was nothing I could do so I sat back took my hands off the wheel and relaxed waiting for the impact. The house was badly damaged my car destroyed. But I walked away with a little bruise from the airbag. Yes, I was wearing a seatbelt. No I was not drunk. But the reporting officer could not believe that. I took the sobriety test and he still couldn't believe I hadn't been drinking.
Oh wow!
You live in Illinois?
@Claire Seems this is a more likely reason for why the policeman were so perplexed to be honest...
Having done actual testing on humans that braced versus not braced, the ones that braced were not hurting afterwards.
When a martial artist do falls from a height they actually brace their body in order to control the fall. If they didn't, they would hurt themselves.
It is more likely that the alcohol act as blood thinners and decrease the risk for blockage.
Can you do a break down like this on THC or Cannabis? This was an awesomely informative video. Thank you for all of the content on all of the channels you post.
Great vid
Thank you for this interesting video!
If this turns out to be true we should all be drunk when autonomous vehicles take over.
Omg 😂
This is like the movie Due Date when Zach Galifianakis’ character falls asleep at the wheel and sustains no injuries because he didn’t tense up but his passenger, RDJ, was fucked up.
Great movie 👌
...because life is based on a Zach galifinakis movies as valid research sources
I often find my body hurting itself far more by automatically violently jerking after I bump my head than it would’ve been hurt from the actual bump...
don't forget the guy who fell from a chopper and his shute didn't open
he accepted what was happening, said his last words,shut his eyes and went limp as he waited to hit ground...
then walked away 100% unharmed and had 0 broken bones only a bruise on his shoulders
that is worthy of a story by you Simon
During my 5 and a half years of heavy drinking, I feel down the stairs 3 times; each time unscathed.
A number of years ago i was high every moment i was awake and fell down the stairs numerous times but never got hurt except a few bruises then I fell down the stairs completely sober a couple of years ago and bit the tip of my tongue off, I should of continued being high all the time
PantySlayer420 irony.
@@metalgod6661989 when I told cardiologist of how I stayed drunk through most of the 80s, they told me it probably saved my life, my bad heart that required blood thinners got fixed regularly.
“As floppy as your grandpa before viagra” I AM DECEASED 🤣
How is no one else taking about this
This is the perfect mix of comedy and facts. You got it
Your humor in this episode rocks,..lol
I fell off a 70ft cliff once and walked away unscathed (after sleeping it off at the bottom)
Uninjured because I was drunk, but also wouldn't have fallen if I hadn't been drinking.
I figured that most drunk drivers probably don't slow down before a collision while a more reactive sober driver might slow down. The result being the drunk driver hits at a higher speed and more energy is transferred to the slower vehicle
If two vehicles are driving at 10km/h, head on, they have a closing speed of 20kmh. If one car is traveling at 100 and the other 10, the closing speed is 110. Speed is only part of the equation. Mass is also important. A bird hitting a car is less mass than a truck. Hitting a bird at 100kmh will cause little damage. Hitting a parked truck at 5 kmh will cause substantial damage. Hitting a truck at 100kmh will likely be fatal. Hitting the truck at 500kmh will definitely be fatal, but you're also going to cause quite a bit of damage to the truck.
You don't transfer more energy into the truck, you have more energy to disperse into your seatbelt and airbags, before the steering wheel goes through your chest.
The energy transference should affect both sides equally regardless of which side is receiving the energy. Sudden deceleration is just as impactful as sudden acceleration.
Fantastic videos... Watch every day
I appreciate the knowledge while also discouraging the acts that lead to this data. Last thing people need is a reason to go for it.
Is it possible being intoxicated makes you less likely to go into shock, hense the lower mortality rates?
Yes, that's possible.
that was what I was thinking
Me before watching this video: "There's no way being drunk helps."
You after this video /pikachu face
I'm a perfect example of the results of surviving a crash while drunk af. It happened in 1983. No other vehicles or people were involved (country road). Multiple lacerations requiring skin grafts on the back of my legs caused by being caught on the side window of the car as it was rolling. Compound fracture of the left femur. Collapsed lung, ruptured stomach, ruptured liver, broken collar bone, busted face etc. I remember nothing of the crash except for a small moment when friends found me (it was night time) and the sound of the air ambulance taking off. It's a long story.
You should do the classic study on why cats that fall from high places are hurt less the higher they are. The relaxed idea of this video inspired me.
It's a sick cosmic joke tbh. The one that deserves to get hurt the most coming out unscathed.
Ya that sick joke is actually called LIFE
Couple decades ago when in high school, after a party a friend of mine happened to fall out of the bed of a pickup truck at 40+mph while drunk,hitting his head pretty bad and getting pretty scraped up. Hes lalive and well butI vividly remember doctor saying if he had not been drinking he would have died, I immediately thought if he hadn't been drinking it never would have happened.
Having been an EMT for a quite a while years ago, I hardly ever had a dead drunk driver. Their victims however were 50/50 between seriously injured or dead.
My sister, was in the back seat of a VW rabbit in the 80s before seatbelt laws, she was between the front seats talking to her friends when they hit a car head on. She went through the windshield (windscreen) and we were told that the only reason she didn't break her neck and die is she was drunk enough that her reactions had slowed and she didn't tense up so she was able to absorb the impact.
Now at 54 she still has scars on her scalp and body, but she's still kicking!
I have to disagree I went to a party and got smashed. Passed out until 6 in the morning and got in my car to go to work. And crashed and broke both legs. Dislocated my hip and hurt my lower back. I was trapped inside the car because the steering wheel was in my lap. My daughters almost lost their dad when they were young. They would have never really even knew me. I thank god I lived. I would have bleed to death if not for being in someone's front yard
Brian Williams Right, but you just have a single anecdote. There are always exceptions
Is this before your career with NBC news?
Limp body, no reaction of stiffening self
Nope :-) -Daven
Maybe you should actually watch the video.
@@sketchesofpayne it's fun to guess beforehand and see if I'm right, I was basing my guess on how skiiers are told to just go limp when they fall and don't try to brace themselves which prevents injury, I figured drunk people do that naturally from slow reaction time
@@TodayIFoundOut A perk of doing this type of research is you get to take home from the lab after it's all done -> drunk pet rats. 🍾🐀👨🔬😅
@@Friendship1nmillion
A perk shared with those Catholic priests
👏🏼👏🏼 Thank you Simon, for creating the first moment I've ever been thankful I grew up without a grandfather, and therefore didn't see a specific face when you said "as floppy as your grandpa before Viagra"! 😉😂😂😂😂
Thank you
4:10 Could have said..... anything else lol.
I went limp before being crushed by a brand new Chevy Suburban. I saw it coming in my rear window. Dad was a cop, and told me to go limp if I think I'm about to be hit. Said the drunks always live. I was injured, but I was the only survivor in my vehicle. Sucks but true. I said "he's not stopping". Should of said GO LIMP. But I didn't.
I was shocked that it was a woman, who was looking for her phone in the floor. She had just bought the SUV 3 days before. I'm still dealing with the injuries, and mental stress of it, years later. I need dental implants to be finished. 4 or five more added, and a TBI that led to Secondary Empty Sella Syndrome. My meds cost 10k a month, and I have to fight my insurance for it. I almost died without them, and had a gofundme set up. I just felt guilty, spending all that money on meds. My family could use it.
I wish all the best for your future!
@@PWN3DU01 Thanks mate. Always remember to go limp if you're about to be in a bad accident. After all, cars are designed with crash test dummies.
Always heard this, then nearly died as a passenger of a drunk in 1999. Was in coma for a month and a half, and have some amnesia. Another motorist saw the rural Hawaii wreck and Icalled it in, and was taken to Queens Hospital in Honolulu shortly. Still has been traumatic and life changing.
So the key is being too drunk to know how injured you are and casually walk into the ER with otherwise game over injuries
I think people are going to use this as an excuse to drink and drive, for "protection"
I found a drunk person and was cheaking my dads car for light and fell down
Great topic, and great video as usual, but just 1 thing. The "hold my beer" meme was a reference to someone seeing something difficult and then them, in their drunken stupor, saying "hold my beer" to go and try it so they didn't spill their beer. context context
Very good keynote at the end ;p
Whatever is the consensus of being drunk in an accident you can avoid it by driving SOBER!!
@Neal Palmer Then I am giving you a life based ANSWER
Tell that to the countless families and friends of people who WERE SOBER when the drunk fucking killed them. ;o)
You can certainly avoid being drunk, but whether you can avoid the accident is another matter...
Me, if I'm gonna have an accident, I think I'd rather be drunk at the time 8-)
You being sober has no effect on the the truck driving, light jumping fool who's just t-boned you at the intersection...
How did your sobriety help?
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Fortunately most drunk driving accidents are solo accidents. Not all though :(
Floppy as your grandpa before viagra......I think Simon's dry humour from Business Blaze is showing up elsewhere more and more.
It's his writer's humor. Simon mostly just reads the scripts.
"Listen to the whiskey Randy" 😂
Almost perfect timing, tomorrow, March 1, will be the 7th anniversary of the deaths of my niece and her husband and the severe injuries of my three great-nephews when their vehicle was hit head-on by another being driven by an intoxicated driver in what he described as "only" his 5th offense. He broke an ankle, my niece and her husband died almost instantly. His ankle now has up to 42 years in prison to fully heal.
My sincere condolences. I know it doesn't bring your family back, but at least that menace was finally put where he belongs. I'm ashamed of my one and only offence when I was one beer over the limit and didn't feel intoxicated at all. I learned my lesson and now refuse to drive anywhere if I've had even a single drink. 5x and "only" ffs.....
I'm so drunk right now that I have a hard time texting and driving at the same time. Phones shouldn't be allowed in cars
before i even watch the video, based on my experience with alcohol, because it gives me SUPER POWERS! ... now to find out the real reason...
You've never drank alcohol have you?
@@harrywilliams2703 you've never been popular have you
I think it's just psychological. When faced with death, alcohol calms the nerves; which is why it's not uncommon to drink on the battlefield. I was in a motorcycle accident a few years back, I wasn't drinking, it was just an accident on the highway. Right before I blacked out I remember telling myself to relax and just take the ride, so I pulled my hands down from the bars and hit the guardrail. My doctors are quite convinced that relaxing, and just letting it happen is why I survived. I lost my arm, but I dove headfirst into a guardrail at 130kmh, so.. I call it a win. My point is that alcohol makes you more complacent when it comes to facing trauma. I will say from experience though; being relaxed when you're having an accident will definitely increase your chance to survive.
I've heard similar about falling from heights if you tense up you stop faster and if your limp you land softer
How to solve the DUI problem:
Have all vehicles installed with a breathalyzer.
Any illegal attempts to remove the device will have the car short-circuit.
Josh Short circuits can be damaging to the car electronics, i believe?
Do you really think there wont be a UA-cam video on how to circumvent this within 3 days?
Or just accept that this life is mortal and "If it's your time, then it's your time."
My uncle got killed by a drunk driver. My uncle wasn't even driving, he was on the side of the road on his motorcycle. It happened early in the morning and he was heading to work. He had 4 daughter, and a grandson. And the person who did it is still not in jail.
My wife works in a hospital, and she sees many, many drunk people with injuries from all kinds of stupid stuff from falling off street curbs to driving into trees. So maybe a drunk sometimes get lucky in major crash cases - but often they don't or would not have been in the situation in the first place had they been sober.
I was in a crash caused by a drunk driver on the wrong side of a 4-lane divided highway with his lights off at about 10:30pm. We had no chance to tense up because his vehicle was about invisible. Both the friend driving the car I was in and I sustained TBIs, but both of us survived the drunk driver because he overdosed a few years later. Karma exacts her price!
My father has shared with me that because of his low pulse rate, he twice woke up in a body bag at the crash site after driving drunk.
The best way to survive a drunk driving accident, not kill anyone, and not end up in prison for life, don't drink and drive. 🤷🏻♂️
One of the factors that may contribute to the fact of drunk drivers surviving crashes is how crumple zones in vehicles are designed to protect the driver in crashes, sober or not. Another factor is that you are drunk and survive the crash, you are getting arrested and your mug shot taken. Hopefully, you will be sober enough to understand the charges being read against you. If not, the odds of you being convicted of those charges rise dramatically.
Also, they never test the dead to see if they are guilty of a violation. Dead can't pay the fines and it is more about revenue collection and political correctness than it is safety. Also because the dead cannot be instructed to blow into the machine.
Bottoms Up!
In all likelihood, the answer is simply that it's a case of confirmation bias. An innocent child or family dying while the drunk-driver survives without a scratch is very infuriating and gets a lot of coverage and discussion, and is also very memorable, especially because of the emotional aspect. Conversely, cases of the drunk-driver dying or both/neither side dying tend to go unreported. That makes it _seem_ like it happens a lot while in actuality, it's probably not as common as it seems.
I swear I've been watching you with years and only now realised I'm not subbed damn
Got rear ended at a redlight... never saw it coming and the guy hit me going 60mph+. To put it in perspective, he pushed my half-ton truck 3/4 of the way through the intersection with his tiny little Audi car. Was completely relaxed and had no issues or injury. His car was completely f-Ed and he could barely move from the whiplash. I was there like ‘can I just go now?’
As I’ve said for decades, cars are designed to protect floppy drivers, since the crash test dummies are floppy and don’t try to brace themselves. Change the crash test dummies!
That was amazing. Totally unexpected.
In my hometown 8 years ago a drunk driver swerved off a road striking 4 pedestrians on a sidewalk at 50 mph. 2 of them died on impact one suffered severe trauma and the other one required a leg amputation and as usual the driver had no injuries whatsoever. So after watching this video I figured it out.
When you're drunk, your heart rate isn't sky high and you aren't likely to panic if you're in an accident and bleeding inside or out. The lower the heart rate, the less bleeding.
I as well as many of you probably said to yourself that a drink would be more relaxed after just reading the title. But I immediately thought back to ever accident I've ever been in and the thing is apart from one of them I wasn't actually expecting them to happen so there was really no time for my body to be tense. Therefore that explanation, although the one I fully expected him to say, seemed stupid to me. Therefore I'm really glad that he countered that idea in the video. While I'm certain that there are many people who had a split second to become tense, particularly in head on collisions, for the most part I don't think that people drive around expecting to get into accidents. Which is why so many of them occur in the first place.