Hill Jumping a dangerous new game for teens
They see it as a thrill—the sheer exhilaration of a stomach drop as a car goes airborne at the very top of a hill.
Fine for a roller coaster developed by experienced engineers, but not something you want your newly-licensed teenagers to do in their brand new cars.
Called “hill jumping,” or “yumping,” it involves rapidly accelerating a vehicle as it reaches the crest of a hill, causing the car to go airborne. Derived from rallying culture, cars that actually compete are specially engineered to handle the shock.
Unfortunately, local teens have picked it up as a recreational “game.”
As you can see in the linked video, “yumping” very quickly ceased to be a game in an accident involving not just the passengers of the jumping car, but a family driving another vehicle.
A quick Youtube search for “hill jumping,” pulls up a number of amateur videos, shot mostly from the backseat of a car with a cell phone camera. Certainly not the first instance of reckless driving posted on Youtube, but quite a bit more disturbing.
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Tags: hill jumping, newly licensed drivers, Reckless Driving, Safety, teenage driving, yumping
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