awesome crash test

[Abnorml]

http://itthing.com/awesome-crash-test-video-mercedes-c300-versus-smart-fortwo

[sgath92]

It seems like those smart cars sure get tossed around like beach balls in car accidents.

[Jus" Roach]

Reminds me of the 1959 Bel Aire vs 2009 Malibu test, not what I expected

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMK1WZjP7g

[pyro]

They should have shown the passenger compartment of the little shit box.

[sgath92]

Reminds me of the 1959 Bel Aire vs 2009 Malibu test, not what I expected

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMK1WZjP7g

That reminds me of the 5th Gear volvo crash test:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBDyeWofcLY

Not what I expected at all.


I was in a pretty severe crash not quite a couple months ago where a volvo wagon of that vintage slammed into the back of me [I was stopped waiting for on coming traffic to break so I could make a left onto a side street] other driver was going somewhere around 55-75 mph depending on who you talk to from the scene. I was in a newer volvo wagon; er doctors told me that the reason why I walked away from it was because I had such a large long car to absorb the impact. Everybody who praises these shitbox eco cars says that they wouldn't be dangerous if everyone on the road were in small cars, and that it's the diversity of car sizes that creates the danger but that's dead wrong in certain types of crashes. if you're in a tiny little eco box stopped like I was, and another tiny little shit box going really fast slamms full-speed into you: it's going to ruin your day. I'd like to see what that smart car would do if they had another one travel straight into the back of a stationary one while going 70mph.

[Abnorml]

Here another crash test. I don't know why they have the wipers on. They actually get it to 70mph.

[LMS]

I would like to see what happens when an F-350 plows into the side of a smart, bet it wouldn't be so smart then.

[Morella]

One thing I have never seen is a crash test with the car skidding diagonally, as mine was when the tie rod broke. The way that all of these "safety" devices work is a whole new ballgame. After trying to amputate my left tit, the shoulder belt slipped on around my shoulder and allowed my head to go toward the middle of the windscreen. The air bags protected the rear-view mirror, and smashed my glasses into my face, but modern cars are so short that they couldn't stop my forehead from being slammed into the car above the windshield. I still have brain damage from the concussion (save the smartass comment), and I have a headache that won't go away, after three months. I would rather have gone through the windscreen, up the folded hood like a ramp, and over the other car. I think it would have done less damage.

Now I drive a pickup, with no air bag, and I feel a fuck of a lot safer than I ever did in that Mercubox, or even my New Yorker. They just don't make cars for full-sized people of European descent. We have to drive trucks and SUVs, hearses or Rolls Royce. Knowing what I do now, I think I may save my hearse, just for safety reasons.

[sgath92]

I am going though that too right now. I had chronic migraines before but not like they are now. Every day it seems. My memory is simply gone. It took me four days after I got home to remember to feed my snake. I've never forgotten before in my life. Spelling, grammar etc is all tedious to me now. I keep slurring my speech or studdering. Neurologist can't even see me until the end of Feb because they're so backed up.

ER said my head probably didn't make contact with anything [air bag never went off, and no bruises on my head] but the force in having my head thrown from 0 to 70 to 0 probably made my brain bounce off the inside of my skull pretty hard. My car was thrown so hard I actually kept insisting that I was hit twice because I felt two distinct impacts. First one was when I was actually hit, the 2nd one was when my car landed. Not sure a different car would have been better for my head but the er did keep saying that because the car I was in was a wagon the back probably absorbed a lot of the impact. Still, I wouldn't have wanted to be in the middle seat. I'd have lost my legs.

[Morella]

That is exactly the way I felt after a good headsmack, and I got arrested for a DUI, after blowing a 0.00, because the cops refused to believe that a concussion caused the damage. After they were done torturing me in the field, I spent two days in jail naked on a cold concrete floor, chained to a post next to a very lovely naked girl, which ordinarily would have been a dream come true for someone who swings both ways, but in jail, with a concussion and internal injuries, it's not as much fun as you might think. I had no interest in anything but getting home and into my own warm bed, but I did feed my dog before I crashed. The poor pup spent two days alone, for the first time, with no food and water. It took me four days just to recover enough to tell the hubby what happened to me, and at least six weeks before I could make an intelligent conversation. I had to relearn how to type and use a computer. I still have the headaches after three months, and don't know if they will ever go away. Head injuries suck.

[Dickey]

Reminds me of the 1959 Bel Aire vs 2009 Malibu test, not what I expected

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMK1WZjP7g

I remember seeing that for the first time. At the time I'd driven both my 55's for nearly ten years and had always known any front end collision over 20mph would be a death sentence for the driver but I was always curious about how the rest of the car would fair. I was surprised that the roof gave like it did and all four doors opened.