50 Impressive Vintage Photos of Car Accidents From Between the 1930s and 1960s

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  • @johnshields6852
    @johnshields6852 2 роки тому +27

    Born in 1960 it was b&w era then became color, I'm nostalgic looking at these photos, I love the music, time goes by in leaps, enjoy your time.🙏

    • @kh7cz
      @kh7cz Рік тому +3

      Also born in 1960. A paramedic right out of high school. 31 years of this can make one numb to trauma. Lived long enough to get to be an old fart. (grand kids) 🚑

  • @kerrybiery6360
    @kerrybiery6360 Рік тому +1

    I love the background music that accompanies your photos!

  • @mikee.4671
    @mikee.4671 2 роки тому +19

    This channel is a VERY well, put together, channel....music and all...two thumbs up!

  • @rogermaes6001
    @rogermaes6001 2 роки тому +4

    Nice collection, thanks. I love the Nash under the snow at 2:17

  • @muffassa6739
    @muffassa6739 2 роки тому +77

    In my home town at the Gas station they would put out the worst wrecked cars, but one year they put a wrecked car at our High school because 6 kids died in the car from drinking.

    • @ilanamillion8942
      @ilanamillion8942 2 роки тому +14

      That's a lesson the kids probably never forgot. So sad that the accident took their entire futures away from them.

    • @pegs1659
      @pegs1659 2 роки тому +15

      @@ilanamillion8942 And yet it still goes on. Every year at just about every high school a kid or more is going to die from an alcohol related car crash.

    • @peterm1826
      @peterm1826 2 роки тому +5

      Sounds depressing. 😒

    • @pcno2832
      @pcno2832 2 роки тому +19

      @@peterm1826 It's human nature. Lessons get unlearned almost as fast as they get learned. After the Thalidomide disaster, authorities all over the world pledged not to release drugs on the general public until they were fully tested. Now they are forcing them.

    • @freepatriot6313
      @freepatriot6313 2 роки тому +10

      @@pcno2832 ..my mother took thalidomide while pregnant with me in 1956. Luckily only once or twice as it wasnt helping with her morning sickness...and lucky for me as it only caused me to be born missing two fingers on my left hand. There were so many born with no arms or legs...or just stumps.

  • @gregatkinson7276
    @gregatkinson7276 Рік тому +1

    loved the music until 3;30. it just has something to it that is so good for your videos....

  • @lavapix
    @lavapix Рік тому +5

    Nothing draws a crowd like a car wreck. Back then people went through windshields pretty easily. Back in the 60s, I remember a woman in our church going face-first into the windshield during an accident. She had over 100 stitches in her face.

    • @stevel.9523
      @stevel.9523 Рік тому +2

      and people still fought over who was going to sit in the front passenger seat!!

  • @nickelias5321
    @nickelias5321 2 роки тому +13

    Fascinating photos, mostly in the Boston area. A lot of those buildings and houses are still there.

  • @tomrogers9467
    @tomrogers9467 Рік тому +7

    Back in the days the the only “Air Bag” was your wife telling how how to drive.

  • @royjunior3349
    @royjunior3349 Рік тому +2

    All steel tanks. I remember the dashboard was all metal and no seatbelts of course. How we lived through those times is beyond me. No bike helmets, no padded playgrounds, walked to school in all kinds of weather, one car, one bathroom, wow it’s amazing we lived.

  • @westerlywinds5684
    @westerlywinds5684 Рік тому +1

    1:07 Couldn't those tires be any more balder than they were!

  • @philroberts4231
    @philroberts4231 2 роки тому +41

    Thank you for the video! As mentioned before, there were some 1950's cars that had crashed as well in this video. Interesting how safety belts and air bags have helped people from hitting their heads on the windshields on newer cars and generally provided better protection.

    • @craigmarr7986
      @craigmarr7986 2 роки тому +7

      The newer cars are not as safe as the old cars were. The new cars are just plastic, and in an accident they shatter into a billion pieces, and it leaves you with no protection.

    • @miriambucholtz9315
      @miriambucholtz9315 2 роки тому +6

      I can tell you that, back in 1967 when my Corvair got T-boned by a Buick, the lap belt that I had had installed in the family car with my own money was probably the difference between going through the windshield and getting a mild concussion. My father certainly changed his tune about seat belts after that.

    • @craigmarr7986
      @craigmarr7986 2 роки тому +6

      @@miriambucholtz9315 If you had been in one of these newer cars you wouldn't have lived, because the car would have disintegrated into a million pieces.

    • @marktwain2053
      @marktwain2053 2 роки тому +7

      While seat belts, air bags, and crumple zones have made modern cars fairly safe, if those devices had been available in those old cars, fatalities would have been FAR lower.
      In some of those crashes, which resulted in slight damage, modern cars would be a complete right-off.
      I ran off the road in an ice storm in a 2002 Jeep Wrangler, hitting one of the new cable barriers (which probably saved us), at about 40 mph, and they totaled it.
      The ones where the cars were practically destroyed, modern ones would not even be recognizable as vehicles!

    • @alb5489
      @alb5489 2 роки тому +1

      @@craigmarr7986 BS!!

  • @MrRoseandrc
    @MrRoseandrc 2 роки тому +1

    There are car's from as early 30s and 40s in the photos seen a 50. Chevy trk in one Thank you for the videos

  • @KsUnderdogZ71
    @KsUnderdogZ71 Рік тому +1

    Its amazing how many vehicles back then had BALD tires !!! 🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚓🚓🚓🚓

  • @VWNate1
    @VWNate1 Рік тому

    Great music ! .
    I grew up in and around Boston, Ma. in the 1950's .
    -Nate

  • @8176morgan
    @8176morgan 2 роки тому +20

    Looks like the car that got sideswiped by a commuter bus at 6:05 is a 1937/38 Willys Coupe. A fairly rare automobile for its day, and one that looked quite a bit like the rarer but better known Graham Sharknose.

    • @michaelbenardo5695
      @michaelbenardo5695 Рік тому +2

      Both are.

    • @blowupbob1
      @blowupbob1 Рік тому

      Eight months later, thanks for your post. I couldn't place that car. The later ones with the grill opening below the hood seem more common.

    • @outdoorfuninthesun2393
      @outdoorfuninthesun2393 Рік тому

      If you go to 6:59 you'll see another Willys. This one looks to be a '40. I believe the one with the bus is a '37 because there is no air louvers on lower part of front end.

    • @8176morgan
      @8176morgan Рік тому +1

      @@outdoorfuninthesun2393 I would not have been able to identify that particular car as a Willys because it is too banged up. You definitely know quite a lot about those old Willys from that time period.

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar Рік тому

      ​@@8176morgan some people know quite a lot about every vehicle, like your Hudson, or the 1941 Oldsmobile, or any of the 1920s crashes.

  • @TillyOrifice
    @TillyOrifice Рік тому +1

    Some first class photography on display there.

  • @charlesacker8552
    @charlesacker8552 2 роки тому +74

    As noted by another, in the '60s the destroyed cars were virtually on display at whatever gas station or body shop to which they were taken. Crowds gathered around to view and you invariably knew the victims or someone who knew the victims. In retrospect it all seems incredibly ghoulish but that's the way we high schoolers were back then. Oh, and no grief counselors either.

    • @arthurn9237
      @arthurn9237 2 роки тому +12

      GRIEF COUNSELORS WHAT THE HELL IS THAT JUST GIT OVER IT MAN UP

    • @ojofelixnm3608
      @ojofelixnm3608 2 роки тому +5

      Always looked for skin, hair and brains from victims going through the windshield. Jackpot lots of times.

    • @kennyspaulding796
      @kennyspaulding796 2 роки тому +3

      @@ojofelixnm3608 that's what the kid at 2:57 is doing, while eating a pop cycle.

    • @tbury2516
      @tbury2516 2 роки тому +3

      Was still that way in the 70's when I was in grade school a guy was coming back into town drunk, ran off the road in his corvette, flew about 100 feet into a ravine, burst into flames and died in the fire (probably died from impact). That car sat out front at the Chevy dealership for about a week. Still have the picture of the car in my head. Was the dad of a kid in the grade below me.

    • @BobbyTucker
      @BobbyTucker 2 роки тому +2

      @@kennyspaulding796 ,
      That kid eating the popsicle could have easily been me, I was a ghoulish little punk that loved the blood, guts, and eyeballs, the more the merrier, lol.

  • @shamalperera4875
    @shamalperera4875 Рік тому +1

    Very exalant ....

  • @golden.lights.twinkle2329
    @golden.lights.twinkle2329 Рік тому +6

    Years ago there was a hardcover book titled "Crash" in my local book-shop. The photos in it were mostly from the 1950s when cars had poor brakes, no seat belts, no crumple zones and no air-bags. They were taken by emergency responders, first at the scene of accidents. The pictures were gory beyond belief. People whose chest was completely crushed sitting behind the wheel of a mangled car, or people who had gone through the windshield and been torn up. All of the people were clearly dead. I doubt whether such a book could even get published today.

    • @monaural2.988
      @monaural2.988 Рік тому

      There are still books like that to be found, but they either wrap the entire book the same way as a record or CD, or seal it inside a postal-type cardboard box. This would be applied to nude or sexual content as well of course.

  • @hikerx9366
    @hikerx9366 2 роки тому +6

    In spite of it all even though cars back then were built TUFF!! they still had some humdingers. I wasn't surprised to see how some of the head ons even though bad the cab of the vehicle itself remained intact, in some of them anyway. I sure would of loved to have owned one. Thanks YTT for such great content on your videos.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

    • @sludge8506
      @sludge8506 Рік тому +1

      The car was built tough. The occupants of the car took the punishment.

  • @mercermouth7571
    @mercermouth7571 Рік тому +9

    My personal fascination was the notch codes of the 4x5 film plates...
    most of which was Tri-X (ASA 400) most commonly used by the local journalist.

    • @gedstrom
      @gedstrom Рік тому +1

      Yes...I use to shoot 4x5 myself, but gave it up because it was too expensive, but it did deliver great pictures!

    • @misterwhipple2870
      @misterwhipple2870 Рік тому

      Good film speed for its time. My Kodak Instamatic 126 film was only ASA 64. You Verichrome Pan guys had us beat by a mile.

  • @Peter7966
    @Peter7966 2 роки тому +48

    This is back when these vehicles were made like battleships. I wouldn't want to collide with one of those beasts now.

    • @ffjsb
      @ffjsb 2 роки тому +20

      And ZERO protection for those inside. Most of the people in these cars were seriously injured or killed by slamming into the steel interiors of these vehicles.

    • @mirden1953
      @mirden1953 2 роки тому +13

      @@ffjsb You can see in some of the photos how someone's head went through the windshield.

    • @hanshoogendyk2203
      @hanshoogendyk2203 2 роки тому +11

      They were not made like battle ships actually,most of these cars had chassis underneat, but the body itself was weak, in an accident the other vehicle would simply slide over the top of the chassis and crush the body as you can see in a lot of the pictures

    • @marklems5894
      @marklems5894 2 роки тому +4

      Unfortunetly, todays cars are more heavy than the old ones, that means that the old cars are crush not because the bad safety features but how light they were compared to todays standards

    • @meljrnone8608
      @meljrnone8608 2 роки тому +8

      Yep, these cars were built like tanks back in the day. But none of them were built for safety...

  • @danielfantino1714
    @danielfantino1714 Рік тому

    Thanks for these high quality shots and good music.
    What i learn, is don´t drive at night, specially in Mass, Boston area to be more specific 😂.
    Sure, some die in these mishaps !

  • @davegoldspink5354
    @davegoldspink5354 2 роки тому +5

    Great video thanks for sharing. It’s scary to think looking at all these photos and knowing how many people in these accidents wouldn’t have survived and how poorly cars were built back then.

    • @juanasanelli6831
      @juanasanelli6831 Рік тому

      SE construian bien Tenian que ser fuerte duraderos y simples Todavia estaban enpañales las medidas de seguridad que siguieron despues

  • @vernwallen4246
    @vernwallen4246 2 роки тому +4

    I've heard of the expression"wrapped around a telephone pole".First time with a picture.2:38.😜

  • @warrenford7262
    @warrenford7262 Рік тому

    I like your video I haven't seen cars like that since when my dad a couple of them he's been gone for nearly 30 years now I subscribe to the channels ok

  • @johnnylnowlin
    @johnnylnowlin 2 роки тому +4

    GREAT VIDEO!! Oh... and FIRST ;-)

  • @CountryAndClassics
    @CountryAndClassics 2 роки тому +3

    As mentioned, there were some from the 50's. Overhaul, was interesting on some the difference of metal then & now. Some You could tell that SPEED was involved.

  • @smiley800
    @smiley800 2 роки тому +4

    Oh man. I know it flipped over but I got a big kick out of the REO truck!!! Very cool!!!

    • @willmcqueen5917
      @willmcqueen5917 Рік тому +1

      Look how slick the front tires are

    • @smiley800
      @smiley800 Рік тому

      @@willmcqueen5917 ; But they are still round!!

    • @fearlesssquatcher5737
      @fearlesssquatcher5737 Рік тому +1

      Maybe it was a REO Speedwagon!

    • @smiley800
      @smiley800 Рік тому

      @@fearlesssquatcher5737 ; Probably was. Looks like an early 1950s truck.

  • @edwardalamo2507
    @edwardalamo2507 Рік тому +2

    Notice how much freedom there, especially children, were front row spectators

  • @hillbillybuchanan2156
    @hillbillybuchanan2156 2 роки тому

    Just found yer channel love it!!!! Do you have any pictures of where I'm from? I'm from Beaver Falls Pennsylvania. It's not far from Pittsburgh.

  • @phukyergreennewdeal1053
    @phukyergreennewdeal1053 2 роки тому +10

    when my family moved to Illinois in 1966, the house my dad bought had in the backyard a badly wrecked car. It belonged to the previous owners, it was the car the now widowed husbands wife had been out Christmas shopping when a drunk driver hit her head on killed her instantly.

    • @russchiappa4870
      @russchiappa4870 2 роки тому +3

      That got two thumbs up? It’s ghoulish.Why would he keep the car

    • @mb-tl1ip
      @mb-tl1ip Рік тому

      They shouldn’t allow vehicles that invole fatal crashes to be salvageable. Even suicide cars they should demolished and erased from existence

  • @ALIENIGENA7777
    @ALIENIGENA7777 2 роки тому

    Thanks you!👍

  • @kentuckylady2990
    @kentuckylady2990 2 роки тому +20

    Quite a few fatalities no doubt. :(

  • @26beegee
    @26beegee 2 роки тому +1

    I love your music.

  • @kathysenn7664
    @kathysenn7664 2 роки тому +6

    sobering images to say the least. the cracked windshields and twisted metal tell horrific stories. How did those 2 buses run into each other? time and chance meeting along with choice to drink and drive.. young people out in the wee hours enjoying their youth, pushing the limits, not one thought about the next minute. O the humanity!
    Thanks for the pictures.. maybe they'll save a life..

  • @smoothoperator7023
    @smoothoperator7023 Рік тому

    Never looked at car accidents as impressive before.

  • @jerometaperman7102
    @jerometaperman7102 2 роки тому +6

    I’ve been wondering when they introduced the collapsible steering column. Judging by some of these cars with wrecked front ends, it looks like it was quite a while ago.

    • @davidyoung8521
      @davidyoung8521 2 роки тому +4

      1968 model year was mandatory for passenger cars.

    • @jerometaperman7102
      @jerometaperman7102 2 роки тому +1

      @@davidyoung8521 - Is that so? Some of those in this video cars were pretty smashed up in the front. Maybe some auto makers did it before it became mandatory. Jeez, I may have owned several cars that could have killed me in a low speed crash.

    • @michaelbenardo5695
      @michaelbenardo5695 Рік тому +1

      @@jerometaperman7102 It was 68.

    • @darylcheshire1618
      @darylcheshire1618 Рік тому

      if you watched the documentary on crash test dummies, it shows how trussed pigs were swung into steering columns. Also test drivers crashing cars until it was decided to use dummies. The data for crash test dummies came from cadavers wrapped in plastic. Each dummy cost about $100K, much more than the car that is wrecked. The cost probably reflects how the cadaver data was obtained. They probably can’t do that now.

    • @misterwhipple2870
      @misterwhipple2870 Рік тому

      1968 Model Year.

  • @fordtruxdad5155
    @fordtruxdad5155 2 роки тому +2

    2:43 Everybody's so smiley and happy-looking! Maybe that was the town bully's car?

    • @norbertsiewert3917
      @norbertsiewert3917 2 роки тому

      I believe it has the same entertainment value as the Roman gladiator performances. People enjoy seeing mangled bodies. If they are still alive.. That's a bonus!

  • @calbob750
    @calbob750 2 роки тому +9

    These were the days when seat belts were considered unsafe. Yes, it was better to be ejected through the windshield than to be trapped in a burning car. Driver would be impaled on steering column. No collapsible steering column in the good old days.

    • @tackyman2011
      @tackyman2011 2 роки тому +2

      Yep, lap belts weren't required equipment until 1964.

    • @harrybriscoe7948
      @harrybriscoe7948 2 роки тому

      i read that in the real old cars the steering column could go through to the back seat

    • @carlcushmanhybels8159
      @carlcushmanhybels8159 2 роки тому

      @@harrybriscoe7948 If the not well secured back seat came forward... then sure enough, both a front person and a rear person could be Shish-ka-bobbed, probably. Others broke and tore up their neck being thrown through the windshield, then smashed on the pavement or tree.

    • @curbmassa
      @curbmassa Рік тому +2

      @@carlcushmanhybels8159 For many the real damage was when they went through the windshield only half way and when the forward momentum was over their own weight pulled them back inside, pulling the glass back in with them and in effect reducing the size of the hole in the glass they`d just made. A study was done and that helped contribute to mandatory seatbelts.

  • @setobe2068
    @setobe2068 2 роки тому

    Excellent

  • @yolamontalvan9502
    @yolamontalvan9502 Рік тому +1

    Poor drivers. No air bags nor seat belts.😢

  • @1yris1
    @1yris1 2 роки тому +1

    Its pretty amazing. Other than a change of music this is the exact same video that (tengamer voe) put up 8 years ago.

  • @ahoorakia
    @ahoorakia Рік тому

    1:06 cause of accident,bold front tire😂😂
    1:20 also bold front and one rear tire
    5:38 definition of roof caved in😂😂

  • @MikeJones-rk1un
    @MikeJones-rk1un 2 роки тому +3

    Car crashes back then were quite the social event.

    • @kenwittlief255
      @kenwittlief255 Рік тому

      and apparently smoking was required, not optional

  • @yabbadabbadoo8225
    @yabbadabbadoo8225 Рік тому +1

    It's amazing to see the drivers side broken windscreens in so many of these prangs and yet seat belts were not enforced or mandated until years later

  • @mujeresyautomoviles115
    @mujeresyautomoviles115 2 роки тому

    Muy interesante,grácias por compartirlo.

  • @Troublemaker1022-r9c
    @Troublemaker1022-r9c 2 роки тому +16

    Interesting how the onlookers were allowed to get so up close and personal to these wrecks.
    Also....... the lack of EMS.
    Just cops and regular people hauling the victims out of the cars. No backboards, No cervical braces.
    Think about how many people have been saved from paralysis by modern rescue tech.

    • @pegs1659
      @pegs1659 2 роки тому

      And death.

    • @kennyspaulding796
      @kennyspaulding796 2 роки тому

      At 3:30 it looks like everyone in town came out to pose and take pictures like it's a festive event. And it was to them back then.

    • @caseyj.1332
      @caseyj.1332 2 роки тому +5

      People were better dressed at a car crash than they are at Wal-Mart now

    • @kennyspaulding796
      @kennyspaulding796 2 роки тому

      @@caseyj.1332 😆 yeah. 😃 IT'S TRUE!

    • @juliogonzo2718
      @juliogonzo2718 Рік тому

      Back in the old days (in Canada at least in guessing the US too) ambulances were a privately owned service. Usually they were owned by a funeral home. Pretty messed up lol. Guaranteed profit one way or another

  • @5610winston
    @5610winston Рік тому +1

    2:35 Think that will buff out?

  • @curtcollett2893
    @curtcollett2893 Рік тому +1

    We had no seatbelts when I was an infant and toddler. Glad Dad didn't stop fast.

  • @davidbarnsley8486
    @davidbarnsley8486 2 роки тому +10

    I think a few people may have not survived those crashed cars 😢😢

    • @florjanbrudar692
      @florjanbrudar692 Рік тому

      A few? In that day and age, even a minor collision could kill.

  • @bob4analog
    @bob4analog Рік тому +1

    6:05 Car looks like a cicada face! 🤣

  • @MrZlodeus
    @MrZlodeus Рік тому

    The one at 8:19 is like a frightened cat going *ffffffff!* 😉

  • @dorianward4909
    @dorianward4909 Рік тому

    00:40, the swan hood ornament. Back when everything was nice looking.

  • @ronaldmayle1823
    @ronaldmayle1823 Рік тому +2

    Those people loved the camera. They would have fit right in with the cell phone photos and videos of today.

  • @kmd5551
    @kmd5551 Рік тому

    11 foot 6 , debut 7:43 .
    Beauty of a ripper

  • @peterm1826
    @peterm1826 2 роки тому +5

    Anyone ever watched Red Asphalt.
    It’s really interesting. All about car accidents.
    See some gruesome stuff too. 😏

    • @arise2945
      @arise2945 Рік тому +2

      The infamous company 'Highway Safety Films' with the incredibly gruesome films 'Signal 30', 'Mechanized Death', 'Highways of Agony', and 'Wheels of Tragedy'. Unbelievable to watch today. All right here on UA-cam. If you think those old cars were safe, watch those movies and wise up. I'm a fan of the old iron, but safer they were NOT.

    • @michelefritchie6198
      @michelefritchie6198 Рік тому

      Did you ever see Red Asphalt II? Also, Carrier or Killer? Saw those in high school driver's ed class in the early 70s.

  • @jaimepalma2417
    @jaimepalma2417 Рік тому

    Felistasiones a los grandes maestros mecánicos favulosos estraordinario maravilloso son lo mejor del mundo saludos cordiales dé la república de Chile por la razón o la fuerza

  • @tommywatterson5276
    @tommywatterson5276 8 місяців тому

    Some of these tank made 30's & 40's cars folded up pretty good.

  • @robertheinkel6225
    @robertheinkel6225 2 роки тому +3

    While stationed in IL, the base parked a wrecked car for all to see. Four airmen in a Camaro, were hit broadside on the passenger side, by an Amtrak train doing 90mph. The passenger door was pushed flush with the drivers door.

  • @Martive_Led
    @Martive_Led 2 роки тому +4

    My dad heated the house with Reading RED DOT coal. Six tons a winter. (1st photo)

  • @ferrancameranesi2085
    @ferrancameranesi2085 2 роки тому

    very good histori from Brasil congratulations

  • @patrickburke9764
    @patrickburke9764 2 роки тому +3

    I never saw a 60,s car in this pict. video !

  • @bluegtturbo
    @bluegtturbo 2 роки тому +5

    2:44 must have been travelling fast... Doubt anyone survived.

  • @neil6958
    @neil6958 Рік тому +1

    Some of the accidents make you ask "how did that happen!?"

  • @hobamasucs
    @hobamasucs 2 роки тому +14

    Find it ODD that it seem's like cars can *ALWAYS* find the 'ONLY' Pole or Tree within 50 Yards to .....HIT ? Saw one one time up by Chico, California a car hit the only tree in a field within 200 feet (on either side) but plowed into !

    • @tebelshaw9486
      @tebelshaw9486 2 роки тому +4

      Isn't there an insurance form out there that claims "a tree ran into the road out of nowhere?" 🌳

    • @carlcushmanhybels8159
      @carlcushmanhybels8159 2 роки тому +4

      In Africa, a drunk managed to smash into (and kill) the only (and very rare) tree in 50 miles all around.

    • @tebelshaw9486
      @tebelshaw9486 2 роки тому +1

      @@carlcushmanhybels8159 I hope they were able to salvage the wood.

    • @hobamasucs
      @hobamasucs 2 роки тому

      @@carlcushmanhybels8159 A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, Huh? Take Care.

    • @kenwittlief255
      @kenwittlief255 Рік тому

      if they didnt hit anything, there would be no accident to photograph, just a car being winched back onto the road by a tow truck

  • @philipatoz
    @philipatoz 2 роки тому +8

    One-car accidents incurred while driving the equivalent of a "tank" were often not so bad (though many obviously were) - but if you had the misfortune of hitting another tank - THAT could be a really bad deal! But some of these photos likely show accidents with fatalities, as the damage is so horrific!

    • @carlcushmanhybels8159
      @carlcushmanhybels8159 2 роки тому +3

      Being in a colliding 'tank' wasn't good: Your body would keep moving and smash and smear on the dash and other interior metal, and or be flung through the windshield to further crack skulls and moosh brains and legs on pavement, etc.

    • @misterwhipple2870
      @misterwhipple2870 Рік тому

      What might be bruising today was either disfiguring, crippling or fatal back then. I don't miss those old pieces of crap one bit.

  • @colewebb5569
    @colewebb5569 2 роки тому +4

    hi Yesterday and today's Tribute and hi everyone else let's see pictures of car accidents between the 30's and 40's I see pictures of 50's and 60's car's i did fined the car accidents pictures to be totally smashing lol :-D yes bad pun intended :-D well have good day you at Yesterday and today's Tribute and everyone else have good day to :-)

  • @ilanamillion8942
    @ilanamillion8942 2 роки тому +9

    It would be interesting to know how these accidents happened and what the aftermath was. No doubt there were fatalities in a number of these accidents. Either that or miracles.

    • @kenwittlief255
      @kenwittlief255 Рік тому

      nearly all of those accidents were fatal
      fenders in the 30s to 50s were 1/8 inch steel
      a wreck with enough interta to bent that smashed your skull on the solid steel "dashboard"

  • @MagnetOnlyMotors
    @MagnetOnlyMotors 2 роки тому +1

    1:42 ow, right in the eye !
    4:50 that steering wheel REALLY hurt !

  • @arturoarastillamo4105
    @arturoarastillamo4105 2 роки тому

    Es. Genial. Este. Archivo.

  • @michaelwalter3399
    @michaelwalter3399 Рік тому

    A few nice cars you won't see at the next Cars & Coffee event.

  • @Crimson3ffect
    @Crimson3ffect Рік тому

    I wish I could go back in time and show these auto makers this carnage they were about to create. And stop them.

  • @bazza945
    @bazza945 2 роки тому +1

    Wet roads, slick tires.

  • @fhurtado9387
    @fhurtado9387 2 роки тому +1

    Habian en las fotos algunos carros de los 50...un Mercury, un Nash, un patrulla Ford en la fito del camion hundido, un Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Plymouth, y lo que se nota es que a los curiosos les gusta posar para la foto....

  • @rayjames6096
    @rayjames6096 2 роки тому +6

    Back when cars were designed to focus all the energy of an impact into the passenger compartment and steering columns were solid steel.

    • @oldsteamer1747
      @oldsteamer1747 2 роки тому +1

      and befor seat belts ,or at least nobody used them if fitted

  • @johnniecontreras3622
    @johnniecontreras3622 Рік тому

    Wow!..and they sure don't build em' like that no more,my great grandfather had one of those old cars that had a spare tire on the rear and it was a convertible with a fold down rumble seat..my mom told us many years ago that car was tough as nails and heavy as heck she was just a young kid back then and of course the many years have since passed then and they are gone but have old faded black n white pictures of that era and them..seems unreal but true..a new car of today wouldn't stand a chance against one of those old behemoth's.

  • @RandysFiftySevenChevy
    @RandysFiftySevenChevy Рік тому

    There were not many street lights back then. The light from the flash is the first time some of them see the wreck..

  • @rickeyferguson6904
    @rickeyferguson6904 Рік тому

    I remember in boot camp they showed us a bunch of gory movies to show what could happen if you didn't drive safely. Nobody wants to be told what they have to do. But the seatbelt law saves lives.

  • @edwardalamo2507
    @edwardalamo2507 Рік тому

    Some may not know, there were no left or right turn lanes,Some drivers would jump the light to make a left turn

  • @CAROLDDISCOVER-2025
    @CAROLDDISCOVER-2025 Рік тому +1

    Maybe it's true about what they say about cars now compared to back then they do a to help people survive accidents more now.

  • @linebacker79
    @linebacker79 Рік тому

    From back in the day when smoking was good for the digestion and you always had one more drink “for the road.”

  • @welcome_to_the_collapse
    @welcome_to_the_collapse Рік тому

    Those old cars were very cool-looking death traps.

    • @michaelbenardo5695
      @michaelbenardo5695 Рік тому

      Japanese cars before the 90s were even worse death traps, and were cramped, ugly, and slow as well.

    • @eskieman3948
      @eskieman3948 Рік тому

      @@michaelbenardo5695 False. Japanese cars had to meet Federal standards just like the domestic cars.

  • @barryrudolph3080
    @barryrudolph3080 2 роки тому +1

    This is why you don't drive with your face buried in your mobile device.

  • @miltoncallan1471
    @miltoncallan1471 2 роки тому

    Videos get deleted when most of the pics were already shown in other videos or they were taken from photo websites without acknowledgement of the website.

  • @tracy4good
    @tracy4good 2 роки тому +8

    I remember a car wreck from my youngsterhood that my Mom and I passed not long after it happened... In an effort to make cars look lower most all car makers except Lincoln, Cadillac, Packard, Chrysler and Imperial put 14" tires on them, which did little for their aesthetics but made them far easier to lose control and even role over. Some lady had overturned her 1959 Buick LeSabre. Picture a '59 Buick with its slanty headlights. They looked so odd upside down. It was a hardtop with no "B" posts and really puny A & C posts so the roof caved-in when it met to the asphalt. No, the lady didn't walk away.

    • @dougsilva8603
      @dougsilva8603 2 роки тому +1

      how sad is that

    • @michaelbenardo5695
      @michaelbenardo5695 Рік тому

      Buick also ignored the trend to 14 inch wheels.

    • @michaelbenardo5695
      @michaelbenardo5695 Рік тому

      How anybody can roll a 59 Buick is hard to understand. That was a low, wide, heavy car.

  • @thomasjordan5578
    @thomasjordan5578 2 роки тому +2

    Interesting that people posed with the wrecks, in the photo for posterity ?

  • @bazza945
    @bazza945 Рік тому

    Slick road, plus slick tires, plus slick drivers = big oops.

  • @dianestrouse3418
    @dianestrouse3418 2 роки тому +4

    And I bet that not one driver got out with a gun to make the other driver pay for his mistake.

    • @dhurt8955
      @dhurt8955 Рік тому

      And I bet also that whoever took the pictures didn’t harass the police like the idiots today

    • @misterwhipple2870
      @misterwhipple2870 Рік тому

      It happened in Texas a lot.

  • @ixlr8677
    @ixlr8677 2 роки тому +1

    10.23. never seen a phone pole in the glovebox. took an impact on that old metal.

  • @michaelzighera9111
    @michaelzighera9111 Рік тому

    A lot in Boston and other Massachusetts towns !!!

  • @timmartin7664
    @timmartin7664 2 роки тому +3

    I see a lot of crack windshields where the driver's head hit the windshield. With no seat belts that must have been every direct collision.

    • @eskieman3948
      @eskieman3948 Рік тому

      Frequently, it was. The driver would either crush his chest on the steering wheel before hitting the windshield, while the passenger pretty much had a straight shot through the windshield.

  • @mdogg1604
    @mdogg1604 Рік тому

    4:03 "Who needs a torch to chop a top?"

  • @Dallas-Nyberg
    @Dallas-Nyberg 2 роки тому +1

    @ 5:10 John Candy drove a tow truck??

  • @5610winston
    @5610winston Рік тому

    0:33 Packard hood mascot on a Cadillac?

  • @flyguy5941
    @flyguy5941 2 роки тому +3

    Did anyone notice how well dressed most people are?

    • @royjunior3349
      @royjunior3349 Рік тому +1

      And thin. No fast food crap to eat.

    • @Jeph629
      @Jeph629 Рік тому +1

      No fatties, either!

  • @magnosantos5923
    @magnosantos5923 Рік тому

    Vdd. Até hj morre pessoas em acidente de carro. Que triste....😢

  • @waynetaylor5227
    @waynetaylor5227 2 роки тому +4

    half of these were from the 1950s

  • @mightylonesome9426
    @mightylonesome9426 Рік тому

    Purse lying on the ground near the passenger door is pretty sad. 2:38
    The woman's left eye is in bad shape. 3:44