Today I Found Out

The First Car Accident (2015x48)

Exibido em:: Jun 25, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?: http://bit.ly/1Ow7J0K Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from Today I Found Out: What Started World War I http://bit.ly/1Ikvecc Why Does the Moon Look Bigger on the Horizon? http://bit.ly/1VzINdn Why Superheroes Wear Their Underwear On The Outside http://bit.ly/1Ow7J0K In this video: Car accidents are a sad fact of life. Every day thousands lose their lives in collisions, crashes and accidents. Though the car itself is a fairly recent invention, the first recorded accident involving them could have happened almost 300 years ago. Depending on what your definition of a car is. Want the text version? http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/07/the-first-car-accident/ Resources/Further Reading: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dcYHzuFLZP0C&pg=PA206&dq=Nicolas-Joseph+Cugnot+accident&hl=en&sa=X&ei=a-b3UYW-AcGyPKmmgPgI&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Nicolas-Joseph%20Cugnot%20accident&f=false http://www.offalyhistory.com/articles/268/1/Mary-Ward-1827-1869/Page1.html http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/World%27s_First_Automobile_Accident?rec=2596 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10987606 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RO0NVX6hMyEC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=Charles+Parsons+Mary+Ward+steam&source=bl&ots=RJptglYvNg&sig=lLd12xD3gZoF6x6v3NUzyoX-yHc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=c-33UefpB-eS7QaTkoDQAw&ved=0CFUQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Charles%20Parsons%20Mary%20Ward%20steam&f=false http://www.roadsafety.cardiff.gov.uk/about-us/the-history-of-road-safety/ Image Credit (Thank you) http://i44.tinypic.com/2wcofub.jpg http://img.blogs.es/circulaseguro/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Cugnot.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Ferdinand_Verbiest,_Jesuit_(1623-1666).jpg http://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/car-trivia-galore-3031_1.jpg