Is this in bad taste? Like we care…

F1 without crashes would be like Strictly without John Seargant… pointless, in other words.

We’ve compiled five of the most spectacular prangs of 2008, which you can enjoy - if that’s the right word - after the jump, as well as voting for which one you think is the most spectacular crash of the season…

Clarkson crashes BIG

A classic Top Gear crash - it’s faked, of course, but that doesn’t prevent it being damn entertaining.

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When drivers go dumb

Words fail us, they really do.

Women drivers, eh

Safety message: Just because the victim gets up and walks away, it doesn’t mean that it’s cool to ride your moped around town wearing nothing more than a t-shirt and shorts. He should have been wearing sunglesses too.

WALK… DON’T WALK

Driver runs red light at high speed, car coming the other way ploughs into said law-breaker, pedestrian minds his own business - who came off worst? Correct - the guy not sat in a big metal box equipped with air-bags.

For the record, the pedestrian not only survived, he wasn’t even seriously injured.

Two fire trucks into one won’t go

St. Louis, U.S: One fire engine ran a red light just as the other was steaming through a green light - the two crews were on their way to separate incidents. What are the chances of that?

Tora! Tora! Tora!

“We’re gonna need a bigger windscreen-wiper…”

The perils of being a motorsport fan…

“Damn kid, why the hell don’t you look where you’re going… oh, it’s me that’s supposed to do that? … right… (drives off sheepishly)”

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