r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BENAPARAVEGR • 5h ago
In Turkey, they are using wrecked cars for speed signs.
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u/samuraijon 5h ago
what speed limit is 82? i guess it will make you pay more attention
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u/Frate27 4h ago
In Turkey you have 10% tolerance before you get fined. By making it 82km/h the highest speed you can drive without getting fined is 90km/h.
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u/Weave77 1h ago
So, practically speaking, 90km/h is the actual speed limit.
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u/dodgedodgeparrysmash 1h ago
Honestly their approach is more practical. Speed limits get treated like this already, they are just metagaming human nature.
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u/Terror_Raisin24 4h ago
It's just r/oddlyspecific
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u/That_Apathetic_Man 3h ago
We have a couple of odd speed zones here in Australia, but its usually super low like 5. Just 5.
Like, put your car in neutral and you'll walk faster than it, 5.
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u/SurveySaysYouLeicaMe 3h ago
lol I'd love to see a cop set up with a radar in a 5 zone.
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u/YesNoIDKtbh 56m ago
"Sir, do you know why we pulled you over?"
"No?"
"You were going 20% over the speed limit."
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u/Terror_Raisin24 3h ago
We have that here in Germany too, it's streets where kids are allowed to play on the streets (in neighborhoods). You're allowed to drive at "walking speed", which is a maximum of 6 kilometers per hour.
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u/waroftrees 3h ago
In Texas, neighborhoods usually have anywhere from 15-25mph. Typically people do about 40mph through those areas. I’ve had folks ride my ass in neighborhoods when I’m doing 15 in a 15 (while driving a work truck). Drives me bonkers.
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u/Ega8442 2h ago
But lets be real, everyone goes around 30, my driving instructor told me a story once where she drove thru a Verkehrsberuhigter Bereich (with a student) at walking speed, there was a line of like 7-10 cars behind them, then a cop turned the lights on and asked them why the hell they were driving so slow...
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u/KnightOnAPony 4h ago
132. I always drive as fast as the cops or anybody around.
It's a complete mess ober there. My analysis (simple) is that you should drive 50 kph above speed limit to be safe.
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u/Bigger_moss 3h ago
These signs make it seem like that was the speed they were travelling at the time of the collision, not the actual speed limit. It’s kind of gives the wrong message in my opinion.
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u/throwaway098764567 3h ago
that's what i thought the intent was, so if that wasn't the intent then they're definitely confusing
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u/Hawne 2h ago
I'm gonna take a wild guess and say you're from a country where speed limit signs are black on white rectangles.
These red circle signs are the old continent speed limit standard and they're so common and primordial there every driver will instantly identify them for what they are.
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u/ggroverggiraffe Interested 2h ago
Let's crowd source Mille Bornes for them. I may be a dirty black and white rectangle user, but I learned a thing or two playing that game!
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u/ahmetsiar 2h ago
In Türkiye, when overtaking a vehicle, you are allowed to exceed the speed limit by 10%. So if the speed limit is 82 km/h, the overtaking limit becomes 90.2 km/h. Just a different way of saying that the speed limit is 90 km/h.
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u/AlenciaQueen 4h ago
As a Turk, I can say that these are incredibly old. I’d say they’re maybe 20–25 years old. I remember them from my childhood, and I haven’t seen them for about 20 years. Of course, they haven’t all been removed; there are definitely still some out there somewhere, but they’re very rare, and the vehicles themselves are already very old.
These days, they use and combine parts like these to turn them into a solid, usable car.
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u/Cioran_ 2h ago
It's like what some counties have been doing to cigarette packaging for about 20 years. Pictures of diseased lungs and mouths.
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u/Frosty-Rich-7116 59m ago
I traveled there twenty years ago and I saw these. It made me drive more carefully.
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u/TotalBismuth 4h ago
This is like the car version of planting your enemies heads on pikes as a warning to others if they resist.
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u/pinniped90 5h ago
Does that sign mean the road has a speed limit of 82 kph?
Oddly specific.
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u/Yes_v2 4h ago
They're becoming more popular as they make drivers focus more on their speed, the theory goes. Of course that only works if you're unfamiliar with the road and enforcement is in place. Doesn't stop certain places trying it first before any actual measures are put in place, since all you need to do is change a couple road signs
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u/Killericon Interested 3h ago
I've heard this with appointments before - saying you'll meet someone at 3:07 rather than 3:00 is apparently more likely to have them be on time.
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u/Global_Cockroach_563 2h ago
I remember reading that some research found that strict speed limit enforcement makes roads more unsafe, since drivers focus on their speedometer instead of paying attention to what's going on on the road.
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u/KozmikLegen 4h ago
There is 10% tolerance for normal speed limits so if it says 50, you can go up to 55 kph and still not get fined. In some places the tolerance is added to the sign so that means at that road normal speed limit is 75 kph and with tolerance it is around 82 kph.
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u/Frate27 4h ago
No 82km/h is the normal speed limit. With tolerance it's 90km/h.
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u/XVUltima 3h ago
I dont know about Turkey, but in the US people say this, too. Its a myth.
What happens is that the officer has to eyeball your speed. They are trained to do it within a 5 MPH margin of error. The radar/laser is only for evidence gathering. So in the event you want to fight a traffic ticket for barely speeding, you can argue in court that there is no reasonable way the officer could tell that you were speeding. But for something that small it almost certainly worth it. You also cant have admitted at any point that you might have been speeding. The correct answer to "do you know how fast your were going" is always "no".
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u/TimeDeskHoodie 2h ago
I dont know about Turkey, but in the US people say this, too. Its a myth.
To give additional context, in Turkey the fine you get in the mail will have
- a photo of your car captured by the speed camera
- address of the camera
- range of the overspeed, it'll literally say one of these
- overspeeding by %10 - %30
- overspeeding by %30 - %50
- overspeeding by more than %50 of the limit.
And those will have increasing fines and points against your licence.
Source: my wallet, I paid more than a couple of these
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u/CataphractBunny 4h ago
Imagine them putting up 69 limit signs. Idiots would be slamming the brakes, wanting to steal it, only to cause a multiple car pile-up. 😂
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u/Cool_Wealth969 5h ago
If it were here in the U.S. , our homeless would live inside.
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u/ComradeJohnS 1h ago
they used to regularly put a wrecked car on my local police station lawn with a sign “they got drunk before prom and never made it”
nothing related to your comment. lol.
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u/Haywire_Shadow 4h ago
Number six is particularly fucked. Looking at the amount of bending in that roof, whoever was driving/in the car is probably not looking very healthy now.
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u/koberkan33 4h ago
we have 10% tolerance so 82 means you can go 90 kmh or 130 motorway speed means you can go 143 kmh
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u/211216819 4h ago
I don't think they care much about traffic rules in Turkey.
When I've been there pedestrians went over red next to a police officer no problem. People parked wherever they wanted and didn't care about right of way. The only rule that seems to work is for cars not to go over red. All other rules are optional... At least that was my experience when I was in Istanbul
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u/Zealousideal_Gap_553 4h ago
Nice idea but the effect wouldn’t work. Young people today are desensitized to stuff like this. Maybe 30 years ago before you could open up a webpage and watch someone kill themself online.
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u/nos-is-lame 4h ago
I imagine it's just a major distraction at first and then once people get used to it enough for the distraction to wear off the emotional effect of it will go with it. Good intentions, but maybe not the greatest implementation.
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u/CataphractBunny 4h ago
Make that 40 years ago. 30 yrs ago was 1996, and the internet was in full swing.
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u/shrek-is-real 4h ago
WTF. 30yrs ago was 1976.
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u/YouKilledMyTeardrop 3h ago
I've got bad news for you... 1976 was 40 years ago.
Wait, what!!? F-f-f-fifty?
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u/DamonSeed 3h ago
The police used to put crashed cars outside of our high school before prom and graduation ceremonies, back in the 80s and 90s.
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u/DeepestPineTree 2h ago
My college did that once as some kind of drunk driving awareness art installation. Had to walk past a crushed red sedan in order to get to math class.
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u/Impossible-Gap-8741 3h ago
Problem with this is it’s inherently more distracting than a normal sign. Good because people will see that sign and maybe care more, bad because they’ll be distracted and more likely to crash in that moment. I know statistically there are more crashes when they use light signs in the US to say “don’t drink and drive” or whatever because people get distracted by them.
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u/pigeondriver45 2h ago
ive seen one of these when going on vacation, theyre not every sign its just like 2 of them
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u/adevilnguyen 1h ago
My brother died in a car accident in 2023. I have ptsd from it and I see him and his car in my mind almost daily. Id be willing to see it everyday in person if it saved just one life.
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u/KaizenHour 1h ago
We did something similar in Australia at one point.
I like that they carried smashed vehicles across the country to do it, so nobody was faced with seeing the car their loved one was mangled in.
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u/Enkaybee 54m ago
What does 130 with a slash through it mean? Can I go any speed I want as long as it's not 130? If I enter the area going 131 and I need to slow down what do I do???
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u/Lairuth 4h ago
Brilliant idea! Distract the drivers more and see what happens.
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u/mattman9111 4h ago
If looking at something on the road or adjacent to it is enough to make someone crash I’d say they shouldn’t be driving in the first place
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u/Consistent-Quiet6701 4h ago
I saw this in Brazil, in Macaé, and one of the wrecks was exactly the car I was driving. I wanted to take a picture but I didn't want to crash
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u/steve_handjob 4h ago
this brings back memories, back in Saudi Arabia in around 2008~2010 these wrecked cars were everywhere on display. nowadays none remaining.
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u/autogyrophilia 4h ago
Seems like they just want to inspire Turkish hooning.
And the Turks were the original Huns
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u/Dependent_Stop_3121 4h ago
So people now can say “I got into an artcident, come and see my work”. 🖼️
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u/One_Contribution9588 4h ago
I think it’s a great idea.
My company sent me and a group of coworkers to Turkey for a big project. They put us up in a good hotel in the more touristy part of Istanbul and had a small bus that took us as a group to the work site across town in the morning and then back to the hotel each evening. Part of the trip was on expressway, and one evening we damn near got into a serious accident. A car in front of us had missed their exit and proceeded to stop and back up to get back to it. They did this while remaining in the right lane. Didn’t even bother to get over on the shoulder. Our driver had to swerve around him, barely missing the car and nearly losing control in the process.
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u/tungsten_panda 4h ago
This used to be a thing on certain country roads in south africa too. Haven't been on that road in a good many years, but last I was, few of the cars were being cut and stripped for scrap by locals
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u/acoolsweater 4h ago
did anyone else think that the falling snow looked like breaking glass in some of the pictures, like it was happening right now lol.
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u/Aromatic-Heart-585 4h ago
When i was at my grandma in turkey i learned one thing with the drivers. This shit wont make em give a fuck trust me T<T
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u/NaraFei_Jenova 4h ago
It's a great idea tbh. Kinda like those work safety videos; when you see some comically bad actor pretend to get hurt, you just laugh it off, but when you actively see a video of someone getting arc flashed (it's horrible btw, I really don't recommend looking it up unless arc flash applies directly to your work/hobbies), you fuckin pay attention.
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u/Heatheration 4h ago
Totally unrelated, but did you know every toilet in Türkiye has a bidet? Even the gas stations. I was so impressed! And clean!
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u/Spykker41771 3h ago
They do same in south africa but not to this scale, seeing it is useally a eye opener
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u/ninjawtf134 3h ago
I feel like I would drive past something like this and just think "skill issue ngl"
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u/dvdmaven 3h ago
A Navy base I was stationed at had a "holiday special" car they put outside the main gate - wrapped around the a utility pole the way the original driver did.
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u/Normal-Background-74 3h ago
In a city in Mexico, in Mexicali, they've been doing that for years. It's called a monument to recklessness
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u/WillMcNoob 3h ago
next level is hanging up victims bodies over these signs, quite a powerfull message either way
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u/Repulsive_Climate713 3h ago
makes sense now lol gotta watch that 10% margin in style with these signs
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u/1HappyIsland 3h ago
This is brilliant. Maybe this will get the attention of at least a few idiots.
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u/F1-Radster-1989 3h ago
70? That’s like 42 mph. How in the world can the car accrue that much damage at such low speed?
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u/LandoChronus 3h ago
How bout a wrecked car with a sign that says stop merging onto a highway doing 30?
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u/Sendunsolicitednudez 3h ago
Mangled bodies would be better...I'd just think that this is a junkyard ad.
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u/Only-Professional420 3h ago
There is a sign that prohibits drinking and driving? Does this imply there is a place you're allowed to do that?
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u/Temporary-Lion 3h ago
In Iceland we have something similar on a sign counting how many people have died in traffic that year. Two cars, and a cross with the number. If you Google "látnir á árinu" (dead this year) you can see photos
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u/hungarian_notation 2h ago edited 2h ago
What does the crossed out 130 mean? Is that an "End Limit" sign? I thought those were generally black in the EU, and I'm assuming the default limit would be lower than 130 anyway.
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u/djdaedalus42 2h ago
Pretty common in Maine during tourist season. Wrecks are placed near busy intersections where you can’t miss them.
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u/AmbulantCholesterol 2h ago
In argentina they started painting yellow stars wherever a fatal accident happened, it really makes me start paying attention for at least 15 seconds.
And every year I see more and more stars added on the same places
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u/mijohvactech 2h ago
I saw a sign in Texas that had a picture of the section of Highway with a number of fatalities caused by car crashes that year, due to distracted, drunk, and or reckless driving.
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u/Blackops606 2h ago
My high school did this at our main intersection. It was great awareness for all the young kids who had probably never seen a crash before.
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u/lFallXnl 2h ago
My small mexican town did this, but they took it away when people stole metal from the wreckage. It was placed on the floor, not the same way turkey did it
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u/Aggressive-Value1654 2h ago
Here in the US, they would display the remains of cars after a drunk driving crash on some school campus' (mid 90's). I had the (dis)pleasure of being at a school where many of the kids thought it was "awesome" how a car could look like that after a crash.
Like, wtf? You're literally looking at a vehicle that somebody lost their life in, and you think it's awesome?
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u/TectonicTechnomancer 1h ago
Romans used to crucify people and put them on display on the road, seems we are going back.
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u/blixt141 1h ago
They have been doing this in Iceland for over a decade. But good on them. It is effective.
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u/Nokipeura 1h ago
They used to show actual gore in driving school to scare people into not doing dumb shit behind the wheel.
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u/ZoyZauce 1h ago
- This is what happens if you exceed 90 kph
- This is what happens if you exceed 90 kph
- This is what happens if you text and drive
- This is what happens if you exceed 130 kph
- This is what happens if you drink and drive
- This is what happens if you exceed 70 kph
7. Town of Yavas - visit at your own risk - This is what happens if you exceed 110 kph
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u/CathyTheGreatsHorse 1h ago
We have The Tree of Shame in Tennessee at the Tail of The Dragon / HWY 129.
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u/Complex_Specific1373 46m ago
Do that here and people would be out at night stealing the scrap metal
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u/North-Library4037 29m ago
They did that in Bulgaria as well years ago with no success. People just think they're invincible and will never happen to them. Statistics says otherwise though.
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u/PlanetoftheAtheists 13m ago
I can only imagine all the people doing a double take to see that car and then getting into crashes themselves. Genius.
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u/Lordballsack69 4m ago
Turkish drivers are the most insane I've ever seen. I'm talking regular blind passing at 140 kmph on 2 lane coastal highways with no guard rail and a sheer 200 foot drop down to the sea.
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u/CataphractBunny 5h ago
If we did that here in Croatia, people would take it as a challenge who can get their car wrecked the most. 😂