Human error combined with relentless mechanical power can all too often prove deadly. Motorized vehicles are horrifying in their potential for mayhem, as these legends demonstrate.

Volkswagen Beetle is found crushed between two trucks.*

Decades-old automobile wreck is discovered alongside road.*

A motorcyclist's jacket worn backwards leads to his demise.*

Drunk driver discovers body of young girl embedded in the grill of his car.*

Rider mistakes two oncoming lights for motorcycles and attempts to drive between them.*

Family who mistakes emergency exit ramp for rest stop is run over by runaway truck.*

People shouldn't wear seat belts because they might not be able to escape their vehicles during car fires.*

Man loses arm in automobile accident and fails to notice it.

Teen dies in car crash with a plastic Jesus dashboard ornament embedded in her chest.*

Anti-seat belt law advocate is killed in automobile accident.

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