What Could Go Wrong @lemm.ee Terevos @lemm.ee 1y ago

Let's drive over a rickety bridge when the river is too high

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Did I just watch someone die?
- According to this the driver survived:
  
  https://news.sky.com/story/truck-driver-takes-on-flooded-suspension-bridge-and-loses-12362557
  
  Happened in the village of Uryum in Eastern Russia.
  
  probable location in google maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/53°10'09.1"N+118°07'00.0"E/@53.1675162,118.1063825,2661m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d53.1691944!4d118.1166667?entry=ttu
  
  River is the Shilka river, a branch of the Amur river.
  
  Yaaaaaaay!
  
  Russia
  
  Survived
  
  Don't worry, surviving in Russia is only a temporary issue. May this man one day succeed in his quest to solve this vexing problem.
- It seems likely. That vehicle was just swallowed by a flooding river. It's technically possible the occupants escaped, but unlikely.
  
  I was hoping for a no, but thanks for the realistic analysis.
- Probably. That did not look good
- I wonder if they had time to think “I shouldn’t have tried to drive across the bridge.”
- In theory, they could get out if they rolled a window down before fully submerged or kicked through the back window.
I wouldn't drive over that thing in any conditions.
Do some of the Lemmy apps have a time scroll for videos /gifs? I'm on liftoff and I hate being unable controlmthe playback
- Sync has pause and replay
  
  Yes, but it's sync.
  
  and change of speed
  
  Dear Lemmy, shut the hell up about Sync already
- Connect does not
- Infinity does for videos, not for gifs. It's better to request the feature for an alternative to sync, as sync is spyware and adware.
  
  Bold statement there Cotton.
- Jerboa doesn't
- Memmy doesn’t, no.
Rickety my arse: look how the bridge put itself back together again after it dropped the van, all in time for the next van.
Bridge needs more triangles..
- Dang Poly Bridge 3 is out?
  
  Lmao
- Maybe a muscle or 2 too
I wouldn't trust that bridge even if the water was lower...
My man Jeremy Clarkson Speed and Powered his way right into that
- I love this so much, thank you.
Reminds me of that scene from the movie Sorcerer
- Excellent, excellent reference right there. That bridge scene is absolutely amazing.
  
  https://youtu.be/ET_MnC_pFPs
  
  Incredibly tense!
  
  Piped bot 🤖 ?
  
  says "video not available" :(
- I was thinking about Clarkson tbh
  
  https://youtu.be/XwGxrXvB_UU
yesyesyenononono.
Was this an Amazon Delivery Executive?
I wouldn’t be caught driving on that bridge if it was over a bone dry riverbed.

It looks like the classic rickety rope bridge trope
- So it's a nope bridge
- Yep, that's a walk or maybe cycle over type of bridge in the best of conditions.
The death drive in this one was too strong, literally
~~Aero~~Hydroelastic Flutter
Does anyone know where this bridge is... or should I say was?
Where do they erect such wonky bridges and people are reckless enough to drive over them?
- Any developing nation. Especially in more rural areas.
  
  Is Russia a developing nation? I suppose it is.
- Copied from u/sci@feddit.nl
  
  According to this the driver survived:
  
  https://news.sky.com/story/truck-driver-takes-on-flooded-suspension-bridge-and-loses-12362557
  
  Happened in the village of Uryum in Eastern Russia.
  
  probable location in google maps: https://www.google.com/maps/place/53°10'09.1"N+118°07'00.0"E/@53.1675162,118.1063825,2661m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d53.1691944!4d118.1166667?entry=ttu
  
  River is the Shilka river, a branch of the Amur river.
- Russia.

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