AIRBAGS ARE THERE FOR A REASON 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
Dear gang behind Darwin Awards !
I’m a big fan of your web-site and here is a little story what happened to my good friend Uffe one day when he was driving to work one spring morning, year was 1999 or 2000 and the place was Vantaa, Finland…
Uffe was driving his little Mazda 323 in pretty heavy traffic so speed was aprox 50-60 km/h.
Suddenly he noticed that a big Audi, which had been driving behind him, was closing up fast and filling his rear wiew mirror! Then BANG !! that Audi crashed to his Mazda’s rear end.
Uffe was of course terrified and scared that this maniac in that Audi has lost his mind and was trying to drive him of the road. And just like to proof Uffe was right that Audi crashed again to his car.
After second collision that strange Audi was drifted of the road and stopped to bushes aprox 20 meters out from the road.
any cars stopped and lots of people run to that stopped Audi to find out what the F… was that man doing!! They found about 50 years old, well dressed guy “sleeping” on drivers seat and not wakening up…
They called police and ambulance and after a while Uffe was able to continue his odd journey to work ( where he told me this story ).
Now you think; what there was to get to Darwin Awards??
I’ll tell…
This Audi-driver was Russian business-man visiting Finland and after hard negotiation-evening he was driving back home. He was enjoying his first thick Cuban cigar of that day and was trying to drop of ashes from drivers side-window. When he sticked out his cigar the burning end of it flew back inside and landed to his eye…
Pain must have been huge and he leaned forward trying to dig that burning ash out of his eye. At the same time he accidently pushed acceleration pedal and hit to Uffes Mazda. At the time of the crash he was leaning very close to steering wheel and when his Audi's airbag blew up he got a hit to his head stronger than from Mike Tyson. After that hit he lost his conciousness and woke up in hospital.
Because he survived and did not loose his ability to have children his is not man enough to recive Darwin Award, but I really think he was very close...smoking is not good for you ;-)
You can check this story from police in Vantaa - Finland, this is true !!
Submitted on 08/26/2002
Submitted by:
arkku Riekkola
Reference:
no reference, 4/99 or 4/00
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