Google Maps Captures Bizarre Moment A Motorcyclist Collides With A Street View Car

Google Street View can be fun on nights you want to explore unknown streets while lounging on your couch. While the app is mostly a fun and useful addition to Google Maps, who knew it could also be part of a crash?

Google Maps Captures Collision Between Street View Car And Bike

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A video going viral on the internet has caught many eyeballs. The video is a cache of consecutive images that somehow capture a collision on a street. Usually, these street view images are taken through a Google Street View car that goes around town and captures 360 degrees of a place.

So, when a Street View car had an unfortunate crash with a motorcyclist, it caught the collision on camera. It appears to be a hit-and-run case, although one thing is clear - the bike ran into the Street View car on a practically empty road.

The dodgy incident has been captured frame-by-frame on Google Maps. The snaps show a bike rider taking a U-turn in the middle of the road. The bike is subsequently hit by the Street View car which sends the motorcyclist flying up in the air and his bike is on the ground likely crushed by the car.

Check out the video below:

Motorcyclist makes a uturn in front of the Google Streetview car and causes a crash.
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The Incident Took Place In Africa's Senegal

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The video was posted on Reddit without any information on where the clip was actually from, however, a user in the comments apparently recognised the street view and informed that it was from Youpe Amadi in Senegal, Africa.

People online were confused by Google Maps having such an incident on record. One user commented, ¡°Imagine Google Streetview being used as evidence.¡±

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by u/Honestly_ from discussion Motorcyclist makes a uturn in front of the Google Streetview car and causes a crash.
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While one scrutinised the rider, ¡°There is not a single car in front or behind of this truck as far as we can see. If he only waited 2 seconds.¡±

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by u/HorseAss from discussion Motorcyclist makes a uturn in front of the Google Streetview car and causes a crash.
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Another was baffled, ¡°How tf does this make it on Google? They¡¯re not uploading in real time lmao are they? I¡¯d think he¡¯d go back and drive past the area without the crash for there to be a clean version to upload? Or at least blurred this out, but maybe it just slipped through the cracks.¡±

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by u/HorseAss from discussion Motorcyclist makes a uturn in front of the Google Streetview car and causes a crash.
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One imagined, ¡°Going up to your boss and saying 'Hey I just hit a guy so we should probably go back and retake pictures of this area' could result in a loss of job. My guess is the driver never reported this and there's no human actually looking at all of the pictures they take for Street View.¡±

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by u/Rattus375 from discussion Motorcyclist makes a uturn in front of the Google Streetview car and causes a crash.
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Upon inspecting the same coordinates again, we could not find the street view of the location on Google Maps.