WATCH: VW Citi Golf demolishes wall and sends driver for a swim

It’s often been said that a Citi Golf is the sort of car in which you really don’t want to have an accident – here’s why…

In some CCTV footage dated the 27th of March 2022, a Citi Golf comes careening through the boundary wall between a private property and the highway, sending the driver flying through the windscreen and into the property’s swimming pool. The driver was presumably not wearing a seatbelt and it appears as though he lost consciousness at some point in the ordeal, as evidenced by the fact that he floats limp in the swimming pool for a good minute and a half before being pulled out of the pool. The driver is lucky that the car didn’t fall on top of him, as commented by someone in the video who was likely videoing the recording of the CCTV footage.

When initially launched as the Golf 1, what later become known as the Citi Golf was not necessarily “unsafe” when compared with its contemporaries, however after having been in production for over thirty years, modern safety tech in cars had progressed quite some way and many of the safety features we take for granted in modern cars were just not available on the endearing little Citi Golf. Structural rigidity of older cars, as well as the way in which they weren’t designed to crumple up in a collision to protect occupants (although they do often crumple up of their own accord) means that a high speed collision like the one in this video will often have catastrophic consequences.

There is little context here in terms of where this happened and what condition the driver is in following this horrific accident. It’s safe to say though that he certainly sustained some rather serious injuries, and we hope that he is recovering in a stable condition.

 

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