New car sales in Russia, on the other hand, increased last year by 40 percent to more than 2.6 million vehicles. Even though the rate of increase is expected to cool down, with 2012 sales estimated to be around 2.9 million units, it is still a very interesting prospect.
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However, as pointed out by the commentators on YouTube, somewhere around the 10-second mark, the Lada sedan can be heard and partially seen making a quick maneuver to the left where it clipped another car's mirror, which is visible on the ground at the 19-second mark.
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Well, that's the right thing to do if you're an ordinary citizen, but some individuals in Russia, like drivers of high-ranking government officials, think that they're above the law, the police and everybody else, for that matter.
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To give you an example of what we mean, take a look at this incident recorded from an unrelated car at Moscow's Garden Ring road.
The driver of the classic Lada saloon coming from the right failed to comprehend the meaning of the arrows on the road pointing towards the inner lane, while also overestimating the acceleration and braking capabilities of his car...
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Try to explain this strange and rather violent happening on the streets of Bratsk, a small to medium-size city in Russia.
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Once again, the protagonist in this scene is driving a classic Lada / VAZ 2101 saloon.
We're not sure if the driver attempted a foolish overtake of if he was trying to avoid something on the road, but he drove between two busses in his lane and lost control of the RWD sedan crashing side first into a large truck on the other lane, which sent him flying into one of the busses (with the camera).
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If you pay attention to the dashboard camera-sourced footage, at about seven seconds into the video, you can see an old (or new, it's the same thing anyway…) Lada Niva 4x4 legally entering the road from a side street.
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This particular incident begins with a young Russian holding a man purse, who came out of his car to squabble with the driver of an old Lada saloon behind him for unbeknown reasons to us.
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Like the man in this video who not only forgot about pedestrian crossings–though in all fairness, for all we know, there may not have been one nearby, but while he was walking through the moving cars and trucks he failed to remember one very basic rule: always look towards the direction that the cars are coming from.
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Try telling that to the driver of the black VAZ 21099 (some may also know it as the Lada Samara in certain markets) that was involved in a scary accident in Russia.
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The driver of a white Lada Samara hatchback grossly underestimated the speeding capabilities of his car and foolishly attempted to overtake a bus on a two lane (one for each direction) road.
The camera-equipped vehicle passed right in between the Lada and the Samara without touching any of the two.
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Watch the clip from the start, though, and you will be surprised to learn that a couple of seconds earlier, they had just smashed into the black Toyota Land Cruiser you see sitting behind the Lada!
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The Niva was traveling on the road when all of a sudden; two Russian traffic cops came out of the woods and walked inside the first lane to signal the driver to stop.
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All we know is that several drivers on this highway should consider themselves extremely fortunate for not getting into a deadly head-on collision with Russia's version of the "Kamikaze" act and just hope that we don’t discover a related dash-cam video over the next couple of days…
Consult the video just past the break for a closer look at the incident.
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The 'bad hay day' in our article's title is the first thing that popped in our heads upon viewing the clip but we are pretty sure that you can come up with better captions that we would just love to read in the comments section that follows beneath the jump.
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The young Russian man was using the pedestrian crossing when a furious old Lada came speeding around the corner only marginally stopping before it hit him.
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On the other hand, perhaps we do since some riders insist upon placing themselves in danger like this motorcyclist, who was kind enough to share his painful story as it was recorded by his helmet-mounted camera.
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