Drivers Can’t Stop Crashing on This Simple Turn. Now There’s a YouTube Channel

Despite being a German word, schadenfreude has become a staple of the English lexicon, right up there with other non-English words, like déjà vu and blasé. It means "to take pleasure in other people's misfortune" and it's the only way to describe what's happening with the YouTube channel The Turn, which is just a compilation of people slowly sliding off the road on one specific turn, in an undisclosed location somewhere in America. Drivers can't stop crashing, and we all can't seem to stop watching.

At first glance, this situation might remind you of the internet-famous 11-foot-8 bridge, which tore the tops of countless trucks like a high-speed can opener. However, that bridge was visibly quite low and had obvious signage to tell drivers exactly how low it was. This corner is seemingly normal, without any visible reasons to cause so many crashes, and yet it keeps taking drivers by surprise.

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In the videos, filmed from a fixed camera angle over countless days, there are many, many instances of drivers leaving the road, typically understeering into the trees, taking out signs along the way. Weather is irrelevant, too, as drivers crashed on dry pavement, in the rain, in the snow, during the day, and at night.