CAR accidents are no laughing matter; they cause injuries, cost people money and sometimes kill people.

That being said, here are some pictures from unusual road traffic collisions that will leave you wondering just how they happened.

I’m not entirely sure who caused the accident here, whether the Lamborghini has gone into the back of the SUV or the SUV has reversed over the sports car is unclear. One thing is for sure, it’s a pretty incredible picture, and appears to have caused a relatively minimal amount of damage to the cars involved.

I imagine describing this incident to the insurance company was a little less-than straight-forward.

A similar situation here, and again it’s not clear quite how this car has ended up on top of the other.

Worse still, the accident has happened in a parking lot, where you would hope people wouldn’t build up enough speed to mount one another’s vehicles.

So this is a car overturned, on a set of escalators, in what appears to be a shopping mall. Enough said.

Working out who was to blame will be a little more straight-forward in this instance, as it’s unlikely the mall crashed into the yellow car.

Despite their advanced training behind the wheel, even the boys in blue can be involved in baffling car crashes. At least the two officers either side of the car appear to be unhurt.

It’s Car Crash 2: Revenge of the Escalator! This gem from the Driving Hall of Fail makes me wonder whether the driver was coming down the flight of stairs – in which case they got pretty far, or they were attempting to reverse up them, which would seem fairly impossible to the average motorist.

To me, this must have been the result of unintentionally driving the car forwards instead of reversing out of the garage. Either that, or a result of driving into the garage to quickly, or the brakes failing, or…. No, I can’t explain this one either.

In fairness, this is a fairly tame fail. I was surprised how little damage the SUV did to the roof of the Mercedes, and I have to wonder how you go about moving the SUV.

As you can see from Hall of Fail, you don’t have to be at fault to be involved in a bad car accident.

Making sure you are properly insured is very important, and even in these difficult economic times when car insurance rates are rising, you’ll need to be properly covered in case you run into a Hall of Fail inductee.

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All of these images, plus many more fails can be found at http://failblog.org