Motorbike hits Google Maps car in dramatic collision caught on camera

A collision involving a motorcyclist and a Google Maps car has been caught on camera and enshrined on the navigation site.

Given they scan the world from one end to the other, Google Maps cars often capture the most surprising, terrifying and amusing moments out there on public roads.

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The accident is now documented on Google Maps itself, which has prompted a scene by scene video of the crash to go viral on Reddit.

The coordinates of the images haven't been shared, so it's not clear where the accident took place.

But one hawkish Reddit user said they recognised the area to be Youpe Amadi, Senegal.

"Imagine Google Street View being used as evidence," one Reddit user said.

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Another said: "How the **** does this make it on Google? They’re not uploading in real time lmao are they?

"I’d think he’d go back and drive past the area without the crash for there to be a clean version to upload? Or at least blurred this out, but maybe it just slipped through the cracks."

Another user replied, saying: "Going up to your boss and saying 'Hey I just hit a guy so we should probably go back and retake pictures of this area' could result in a loss of job.

"My guess is the driver never reported this and there's no human actually looking at all of the pictures they take for Street View."

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Google Maps car often captures car accidents.

But it's not the first time a Street View car has been involved directly in a crash.

A Google Street View vehicle was part of a three car pile on in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta in 2013.

More recently, a Google car was caught having smashed into a signpost after veering off the road in Macedonia in 2019.

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