A dashcam clip out of San Diego is making the rounds this week, and it’s a good reminder of why you should always glance both ways even when your light turns green. The video, posted to the r/sandiego subreddit, shows a white Tesla Model 3 blowing straight through a red light and T-boning a white C7 Corvette as it crossed the intersection on a legal green.
The crash happened Monday on Genesee Avenue near the northbound Interstate 5 exit, and the footage is honestly tough to watch if you’re a Corvette guy. The impact sends the C7 into a full 180-degree spin, and somewhere in the middle of that spin the driver-side wheels just give up and separate from the car entirely. That’s not a fender bender. That’s a “call the tow truck and maybe say a few words over it” situation.
What makes the video so striking is how avoidable it looks. Traffic is stopped, the Corvette gets the green, and it just goes, the way you’re supposed to. Then out of nowhere the Tesla rolls through like the red light was more of a suggestion. No brake lights, no swerve, nothing. It’s the kind of clip that makes you want to install a dashcam in every car you own, if only to prove you did everything right when someone else clearly didn’t…