Fact Check: FAKE McLaren Stunt Video Showing Car Crash Is NOT Real -- Made With AI

Is a viral video of a man climbing onto the roof of a moving car and then crashing into a truck real? No, that's not true: The clip originated from an account that publishes AI-generated content. The video contained inconsistencies pointing to AI.

The claim appeared in a post (archived here and here ) published on X by @BricxNews on Aug. 21, 2026. It opened:

⁠HIGHWAY INSANITY:⁠ 🏎️💨 MCLAREN DRIVER OPENS DIHEDRAL DOORS AT HIGHWAY SPEEDS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA

This is what the video attached to the post looked like on X at the time of writing:

The 15-second clip claimed to document a fatal stunt: A driver climbs to the top of a moving car, but as he looks into the camera filming from another moving vehicle, his car crashes into a truck.

The video, however, was initially uploaded (archived here ) to the internet earlier that day by an account that publishes AI-generated content on Instagram. The original post displayed a disclaimer:

The account's description (archived here ) read:

The clip reviewed in this fact check contained several hallmarks of AI. For example, at the moment of impact, the driver's arm seems to penetrate the back of the truck:

Seconds later, a human hand appears inside the car from which the scene was supposedly filmed, but the hand is detached from any human body:

Hive Moderation , an online AI detection tool, determined the video was 99.8% likely to have been generated by AI: