Crash Chronicles 3 (Wrecks of the 1920s-1930s) [Colorized]
Vložit
- čas přidán 22. 12. 2023
- In 1920s America, the number of motorized vehicles on the road was growing dramatically. This rapid increase in automobiles was, of course, accompanied by a rapid increase in automobile accidents.
In this thought-provoking CZcams video, we present a collection of rare and intriguing photographs capturing the tumultuous world of car accidents from the 1920s and 1930s.
Join us on a visual journey through the annals of automotive history, where roads were less traveled, and safety measures were in their infancy. Explore the wreckage of vintage automobiles and the challenges that early motorists faced.
These haunting images serve as a stark reminder of how far we've come in terms of road safety and transportation technology. From the aftermath of chaotic city intersections to the aftermath of speed-related highway mishaps, these snapshots reveal the raw reality of life on the road during the early 20th century.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to witness a world gone by and gain a deeper appreciation for the safety measures and advancements that have transformed our roads today.
-------------------------------
Music: Intractable by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/...
#automotivehistory #classiccars #carcrashcompilation - Zábava
![When Classics Crash [Colorized]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/tLyilTOZ_3c/mqdefault.jpg)
Notice how well dressed people were back then. Hats, coats, suits, button down shirts, slacks.
all boring and drab.
@@AmericanFreedomPatriot simple & elegant, nothing like the absolute mutant like appearance some choose today.
And that's just the bums
And not a bunch of fat slobs.
Absolutely NO ONE LOOKING LIKE JOHN FETTERMAN😂
as was the custom back then. When there was a car accident in your neighborhood you would quickly grab everyone you knew, get dressed into your best purple outfit and would go and gawk for the camera
🤣🤣🤣
Note the lack of safety glass @ 7:33 ....... scary to think of the injuries that could cause.
Great video, looks really good colourised, thanks for presenting it!
Almost a hundred years later...and people still haven't learned how to drive, here in Massachusetts. 😂
Here in Rhode Island too !!!!
Here in California too! They think that if it starts to rain, you are supposed to floor it.
So true😂
It's the same in every state, especcially the southern border states where there are billions of immigrants that have infested all the roads.
yep... some people are asshats behind the wheel
It's alarming the amount of damage considering the lack of speed compared to modern cars
Those early cars just flew all to pieces when they hit something.
@@ontheroad5317 Good ol' days. Averaging 30mph on a road trip was doing great, roads not so great.
@@xxxxxxxx3476 steering wheels were solid, and steering columns did not collapse. There were instances of people nearly cut in half by the wheel.
Those things were not as slow as some might think...
Massachusetts has always had the worst drivers.
I’m glad they’ve made power and light poles safer now. They just jumped in front of cars back then.
And those trees are much safer these day's. Lol
safer for the 150-year-old oak trees which have bulked up over the years. @@davejenvey3598
Wie immer sehr eindrucksvolle aber auch traurige Bilder in einer top Qualität, mit der bekannten angenehmen Musik im Background.
Imagine going through the windshield before tempered glass was invented, be like going through a wood chipper.
And also the twisted, sharp jagged metal. As far removed from the safety of the womb as one can be!
Those that went through the wood chipper were called "glass necklaces."
It is quite amazing how the trees and posts were magnetized in those days which attracted so may passing vehicles!!!!!!!?????
Incredible job on this video! Wonder what the casualty rate (killed/injured) was of the occupants of the pictured vehicles - had to be very high.
Where the phrase: Wad it up! came from.
great pictures, thankyou for sharing them
Driving car then was like an adventure. Lucky if you get yourself (and others) safe. Posers in those pictures are epic 😂
Nice video All of those accidents showed bald tires as long as it held air they were using them. I still have my father tool for re-grooving tires from the 20s and 30s.
They say vintage cars hold up better than modern cars, not by these photos, they look worse.
By "vintage", they mean 40s - 60s. Until the mid 30s, car bodies usually consisted of a wooden framework with the steel panels attached with tacks to the wood.
No federal safety standards back then
For car manufacturers back then, the idea was to build a functioning vehicle; not to minimize the impact of a crash. That was the consumer’s responsibility to simply avoid them.
The only people that make that claim are the ones that know nothing about vehicle safety standards.
"hold up" in that context means "last." As in without needing to be junked. Longevity.
This video shows a lack of durability, not longevity.
Really interesting but sad to see those amazing cars so wrecked . I used to restore vintage cars but I think those are just a bit too far gone !
Thankyou .
The trucks at 3:29 & 5;03 looked like they lived to b driven another day. They would have been restorable but recovery would have been difficult.
nahhhh a little bit of duct tape and a quick buff would fix it lol
Amazing no blood anywhere.
Yep, it was air brushed out.
No seatbelts - everyone went flying out the window.
@@10thSC-Carrot-Brains That is the way it was back then.
Holy cow!! What were cars made of back then, tin foil?!!! I don't know how fast these cars could go, but yikes!!! Also, we're all of these wrecks fatalities, minus the one stated driver survived. Great video!! Thank you!! 😊❤
Some of them were just parked cars that got hit by something or fell into a hole so I doubt it
No one pictured in this video survived.
They were made out of steel for the most part, most could do 70 mph just fine.
Notice how all the tires, are worn, and miss matched.
Oh I am digging these crazy sounds.
All accidents happened in MA in the 1930 s
I am shocked looking at the Wrecks of the 1920's and 1930's.
Interesting choice of music where all these collisions shown are most likely fatal
Back in those days everyone wanted to be in the picture posing with the wrecked car.
Utterly fascinating.
Thank you!
How come all these trees and poles keep getting in the way...
😁
Alexander Graham Bell is responsible for many of these. Darn telephone poles!
Great video, but the music is way to loud.
Most of these crashes into polls look like the driver was killed for sure. They must have been moving really fast to bend those steel bodies and frames like that. Thanks for the video.
The bodies consisted of a wooden framework with the steel panels tacked to the wood.
The steel frame is very strong on these cars, but yes the body is very weak. Still to do that much damage to the body and frame is a very hard hit. When I was a kid I was in many cars like these over the years, mostly Ford but no crashes. @@michaelbenardo5695
They were going fast all right that's probably a large part of why they crashed
Old Cars, So Classy!
I’m surprised by the amount of damage in these photos
The occurrence of speeding telegraph poles during the 1930s in America reached an almost unbelievable 4 a day . The police at the time were shooting speeding poles on site... 😂
I don’t think I would have wanted to be involved in any of those crashes
They all look very serious
Right? It’s like a simple fender bender these days would guaranteed be detrimental back then.
Notice how many had bald tires .
Good observation.
These cars are just mangled , obliterated, it's amazing when you consider many weren't going more than 40 miles per hour . It's like something you see nowadays with both cars doing 70 in a head on collision.
Timber framing turns to matchsticks upon impact.
Most of those cars had a steel body and could do 70 mph just fine, they had to be going quite fast to get mangled like that.
love the music
Ha, hah! A lot of people have opinions on this particular song. Some hate it, and some really like it. For me, it somehow seems to be an appropriate fit for these scenes.
It looks like they didn't have any laws about driving on bald tires.
They may have, but, like today, it probably wasn't enforced. It sure isn't today.
There was a lot wrong with the roads, that took decades to figure out. Notice how on turns in the road, they are sloped to help absorb the sliding motion of the car. Passing lanes to help safe passing. Shoulders to pull off out of traffic. It took a lot of trial, error, injury, and death to give us the wonderful roads we have today.
Jayne Mansfield gave us the bumper on the back of semi trailers. The car she was in, crashed into one, one night, killing her and her driver. The car went underneath the trailer, killing her and her driver. It was her gruesome death that an improvement to truck trailer construction came into being, requiring all to be fitted with a solid metal barricade type bumper and truckers to this day, call it the Mansfield Bumper.
Mansfield's tragic death was no more tragic or heartbreaking than the millions of others who died in the marvel of motorized travel.
The funny thing is the modern semi bumpers probably would have failed when hit by a 1966 Buick at the speeds they were supposedly traveling so it probably wouldn't have changed much in that accident.
Jayne Mansfield died tragically, but she was not decapitated.
@@danielthoman7324 Did I say she was decapitated? Geez man, thanks for the info. 😮
@@redtra236 Perhaps, but something is still better than nothing.
@@danielthoman7324 She wasn't?
With all the people looking at the camera while the photo of the accident is being taken, for some reason the theme to Cheers is playing in my head lol.
What is the name of the background music in this video?
toujours bien ,et intéressent😃
Cool!
I noticed an ad on a building for Sheetrock which l didn't know existed then.
Thank you, sir. Merry Christmas!🎄
Colonial attire was elegant and every generation since down dresses to where we are now
What is the name of the music, I own a 1931 ford Model A and this tune fits.
Man, they really had a lot of bad drivers in Massachusetts..
To be honest, nothing has changed....they still drive like crap 😂.
Amazing how much damage at low speeds
I had a 1936 Chevy the fastest it would go is about 55 top speed
There was a lot of closed casket funerals related to these pictures.
must've been many fatalities.... but the really crazy thing is virtually everybody in these photos has died too. only the very youngest may still be alive.
my guess ALL these pictures were from One Boston News photographer - I have seen his collection posted on other sites - His extensive library is on line somewhere - 100's of car accidents
07:25 I had no clue they were even using Sheetrock and wallboard back then! I thought walls were just clapboard or plaster of paris!
Nobody was injured in the making of this video.
Wow! All those people watching this on CZcams @ 120 ish years young.
The music makes it look like fun. As if they weren't all gruesome fatalities..
Treads were optional on tires back then!
Didn’t have car safety checks back then 😳
Hmmm. No blood anywhere. Nice touch ups on the negatives.
Does anyone know what the music is in this video?
Intractable by Kevin Macleod. 😊
No safety features back then seat belts,airbags and so on even though I wouldn't mind having one of these in good shape.
they still drive like that in mass.
And 100 years later people from Massachusetts still can't drive.
Hey revere Massachusetts my hometown
You could of driven on that street many times where that accident took place.
"They don't make them like they used to". I am glad for that lol.
So much for: they sure don’t build them like they used to and no one was injured in these accidents .
Almost 100 years and drivers haven’t learned that speed kills!!! In Calgary, Alberta the most dangerous ones are from other countries…
This is why I never go to Massachusetts
So this video shows that nobody in Massachusetts knows how to drive
No jaws of life back then it took time to get people out when time was of the essence.
Great video. Find book “Car Crashes” by Kirkpatrick many great photos in Orange County area. Thank you.
Do you mean _Car Crashes & Other Sad Stories_ by Jennifer Dumas (Author) and Mell Kilpatrick (Photographer)?
Yep. That’s the book. It’s a keeper. Thank you. Photographs that tell a story.
@@johnmitchelljr OK, great. Thanks for recommending.
All photos in Mass ???
Well when you messed up there wasn't no second chance to say im sorry ! Can I do it again tomorrow !
No jaws of life back then!
funny wife said we get in a crash we are done, I told here at least we have the upbeat music.
Simply put; what a mess !!!!
The Original "Rubber-Neckers"
Aka, Ambulance Chasers , Wonder How Many Were Lawyers..Lol
They weren't vintage when the photo was taken. They were just car wrecks.
I thought these were taken today lol
1:33 I cant figure that one out
I did some research. Car is wrapped around the tree. Passenger side hit the tree. Photo was taken by Boston -Harold staff photographer Leslie Jones circa 1930.
3;04-wonder if the HORSE made it!That a carage.
A lot of bald tires.
Reminds me of Drivers Ed sans the dead bodies.
4:14 what the heck happened????😮😮
Looks like the air bags did not deploy
I'm sure there was many casualties
Drifting: the experimental eara
It's funny that most are looking at the camera, not many pictures being taken then!
Were all cars bloody purple?
They all ended up being restored big block hot rods
They obviously didn't have ABS back then or power steering either.
Like a good neighbor state farm is there
👍👍❕️
I have a 1923 Model T touring car and I wouldn’t want to crash in that. Last summer a guy pulled right in front of me at a stoplight and I thought I had bought it.
The Model T was a frail light-weight car made to be cheaply priced, so yes, you should be careful.
No cops or fire department just people looking.
So..... it's best we avoid travelling by car anywhere near Boston, Massachusetts then?
Looks like safety was not a priority.
Looks like an average cars and coffee carnage video. More so with all the people standing by.
Min. 4.09: un. Plymouht 34 o lo que queda de el .😞
Almost every vehicle has bald tires.
Cars speeds were slow, so do you know the FATALITY STATS of this era?