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Hungarian Police Hot on Heels of High-Speed Video Death Cult



If the above headline leads to you to think this story is one of our normal goofs, a few seconds watching the imbedded video will set you brutally straight. It features a fatal head-on collision that took place on the road between Pécs and Komló on Monday. The amateur moviemaker, identified as Zsolt E., had attached a video camera to his bike so he could show his friends - and, one would assume, lots of other folks on the Internet - how he cheated death by weaving in and out of traffic at high speed. Instead, it shows him running straight into another bike traveling in the opposite direction at 130kph. The unidentified biker whom Zsolt collided with died on the spot, while Zsolt, taken by rescue helicopter from the scene, apparently expired later at a nearby hospital. The two deaths were added to a weekend toll that included no less than six fatal motorcycle accidents.
Prompted by the spectacular tragedy, Hungarian police have begun to look at videos posted on biker website Sportmotor.hu, hoping to identify other daredevil exhibitionists before they follow in Zsolt E.'s tragic bootsteps. According to Infórádió, a competition has developed on the site to upload the most hazardous and fastest footage on Hungary's public roads. There is one clip on the site featuring a rider doing more than 300kph. A spirited debate on the matter has broken out in the site's forums, and many users are requesting that their videos be removed.
The same site also features an interesting poll on how motorcycle accidents might be better avoided in future. Some 12% of the respondents said that the rules of the road should be followed more closely, 13% that people should stay within the speed limit, 17% said they believed the answer lied in better driving instruction, while the remaining 58% said they think drivers should "pay more attention." Certainly I'll be paying attention if I ever see a biker with a camera mounted on his handlebars.