>>>>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/8574609.stm
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>>>>I bet this is a prank; the car is empty and attached to the front of the truck for shock value.
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>>>If you right, this is really an expensive joke. Who would be do it for just a youtube video?
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>>The reports are that the police are treating it as real. Surprising there wasn't more smoke from the tyres if it was real.
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>Also surprising that the truck was unable to stop in all that time.

In American movies, when the kids spin off the road into a cornfield or forest they always carry on at breakneck speed till they hit a tree, never thinking to take their foot off the gas, switch off the engine or, oh I don't know ... brake?! So this is not surprising.