What vehicle do you drive?

Lambourne

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Not quite ready to throw rocks at either party without more context. This looks (and sounds) like it's in Italy or maybe Spain. All of continental Europe drives on the right, so the damage is on the wrong side of the cars for it to have been a head on/side swipe.

I have some friends in the classic car rally circuit. The car's outfitted for it and the two guys in green are dressed up in period dress, as is common in the classic car rally circuit during events. The 40 year old BMW that's stopped in the background is probably part of the event too. Rallies held on public roads aren't supposed to be about speed but it probably won't surprise anyone that not everyone sticks to the rules at all times.

It's not all that uncommon for cars to get badly damaged during events and still get fixed up again. That classic car world has an entire cottage industry built up around it, it has a ton of skilled DIY'ers too. Classic cars are in many ways easier to repair than modern cars because the entire construction is so much simpler and tolerances larger.

Frankly, there's just a ton of extremely rich people in that world too. I've chatted to more than a few people that owned literally dozens of cars. They'll drop $100k on a repair like it's nothing, even if it doesn't make any economic sense.
 

Burns

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Not quite ready to throw rocks at either party without more context. This looks (and sounds) like it's in Italy or maybe Spain. All of continental Europe drives on the right, so the damage is on the wrong side of the cars for it to have been a head on/side swipe.

I have some friends in the classic car rally circuit. The car's outfitted for it and the two guys in green are dressed up in period dress, as is common in the classic car rally circuit during events. The 40 year old BMW that's stopped in the background is probably part of the event too. Rallies held on public roads aren't supposed to be about speed but it probably won't surprise anyone that not everyone sticks to the rules at all times.

It's not all that uncommon for cars to get badly damaged during events and still get fixed up again. That classic car world has an entire cottage industry built up around it, it has a ton of skilled DIY'ers too. Classic cars are in many ways easier to repair than modern cars because the entire construction is so much simpler and tolerances larger.

Frankly, there's just a ton of extremely rich people in that world too. I've chatted to more than a few people that owned literally dozens of cars. They'll drop $100k on a repair like it's nothing, even if it doesn't make any economic sense.
Analyzing the scene from the video:

They sound Italian and have Italian stickers, she sounds American, but didn't say enough to be certain of accent. If she is American, it's probably a rental car. Her left side door is open, so it's also set up as left-hand drive (probably), best guess is they are indeed in Italy.

It looks like you can see a skid mark coming out of his correct lane (right) as he (maybe) locked them up at then end or it's from the front tire dragging after being disabled in the collision. She was coming around a bend that, if distracted and not making the turn tight enough, would put her heading into the grass on his side of the road.

So it's highly probable she was all the way into his lane, possibly riding the far white line and he tried to swerve at the last moment into the only open area, which was the opposite lane to him. That would certainly be a last resort as it is just as dangerous, or even more so, if she had looked up once and took proper action to correct her driving. There is no sign she tried to avoid them or brake. It doesn't look like they were speeding, as the vehicles don't look to have traveled very far after the collision.

As an aside, we can all learn an Italian cuss word:
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