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<\/p>\nOver the years on the live blog, we\u2019ve encountered a seemingly endless supply of campaigns led by police and local authorities, urging motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians to \u2018share the road\u2019 and informing us that road safety is a shared responsibility.<\/p>\n
Well, it turns out two US-based food influencers \u2013 and the restaurant they were eating in \u2013 didn\u2019t quite get the \u2018share the roads\u2019 memo this week.<\/p>\n
In a video that has already been viewed over 250,000 times, YouTube food reviewers Patrick Blackwood and Nina Unrated (no, I\u2019ve not heard of them either) were getting ready to eat a typically overindulgent meal in front of a camera \u2013 like all good food influencers \u2013 at their favourite restaurant in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n
However, in a display of freakish timing, just as they took their first bite and made that daft, closed eyed food Instagrammer face, an SUV driver smashed through the restaurant and into the YouTubers\u2019 booth, sending them and glass flying.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Bloody \u2018ell. Thankfully, and somewhat miraculously, Patrick and Nina escaped serious injury, aside from a few nasty cuts and scrapes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were laughing, having a great time, and right as we tapped our sliders together in a \u2018boom!\u2019 cheers moment, out of nowhere, this SUV came barrelling through the glass wall at 35-40 mph,\u201d Nina said after the horrifying incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo warning at all glass shattered everywhere, chaos erupted, and it hit right next to Patrick on the outside of the booth. We were inches from disaster, but by some miracle, we\u2019re both okay, just shaken and forever changed.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The video has, understandably, since gone viral, prompting cyclists and road safety campaigners on the internet to poke fun at the usual victim-blaming nonsense we hear when a cyclist or pedestrian is \u201cinvolved\u201d in a collision with a driver.<\/p>\n
\u201cInsert obvious joke here that isn\u2019t really funny, about the food reviewers INSIDE THE RESTAURANT wearing dark clothes and not making eye contact with the driver WHO CRASHED THROUGH THE OUTSIDE WALL\u2026\u201d wrote city planner and regular live blog contributor Brent Toderian.<\/p>\n
\u201cToo many cars that are too big, driven too fast, often by people who shouldn\u2019t be driving at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, they should have had hi-vis and helmets,\u201d added cyclist Andrew.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s not demonise drivers! Was the restaurant wearing hi-vis?\u201d asked another BlueSky user.<\/p>\n
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Believe it or not, some readers reacted to Pop Crave\u2019s reporting of the incident \u2013 which described the food reviewers as being \u201cinvolved in a crash\u201d \u2013 by asking: \u201cWhy didn\u2019t they get out of the way?\u201d<\/p>\n
Needless to say, that particular comment didn\u2019t go down too well.<\/p>\n
\u201cRemember to look both ways before eating,\u201d said one baffled replier.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey should have been more considerate to the driver of that car and gotten out of the way sooner. Damned pedestrians sitting in their restaurants blocking people,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd they were in a bike lane!\u201d<\/p>\n