Two Corvettes plus one set of lights and two idiot drivers equals . . . one nasty accident

It's a familiar scene - two testosterone-fuelled drivers line up at a set of traffic lights and prepare to settle who is the best in a drag race.

As children and cyclists cross the road in The Woodlands, Houston, the drivers of the $40,000 C5 Corvette and $45,000 C6 Corvette rev their engines as they wait for the lights to change.

Both cars accelerate rapidly as the lights switch to green, racing across the junction side by side.

But as the video footage shows, instead of one motorist emerging triumphant, both were left red-faced as one lost control, swerved into the other and sent both of them crashing into trees.   Full Read