Nasty car crash

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pitbike502 12/20/2011 11:37am
12/20/2011 11:37am
thats pretty insane, never seen a car split down the center like that! thats one of the reasons i drive a big ass Ram, i feel highly unsafe in matchbox cars
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MotoChief 12/20/2011 1:19pm
12/20/2011 1:19pm
Mythbusters tried to do that and failed. Split a car down the middle like that.

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Titan1 12/20/2011 2:28pm
12/20/2011 2:28pm
MotoChief wrote:
Mythbusters tried to do that and failed. Split a car down the middle like that.
That was my first thought....I wonder what these boys did differently?
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SEEMEFIRST 12/21/2011 3:13am
12/21/2011 3:13am
MotoChief wrote:
Mythbusters tried to do that and failed. Split a car down the middle like that.
Titan1 wrote:
That was my first thought....I wonder what these boys did differently?
They hit it off center. Look at the big piece on the roll-back, it has the engine, steering rack, trans, etc.
They just peeled the side off of it. Mythbusters kept going for the middle because that was the myth.
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TerryK 12/21/2011 8:42am
12/21/2011 8:42am
I always laugh at people that think old cars are safer because they are big and heavy and have thicker steel. Completely wrong. I love vintage and muscle cars, but if I had to be in an accident I would want it to be in a new vehicle. Old cars weren't engineered for safety, new ones are.

This past weekend a 21 year old woman lost control of this 2010 sedan, rolled 3 or 4 times tearing 2 of the wheels off in the process and the car came to rest on it's roof, unrecognizable as a car. When first responders arrived they believed they would be dealing with a fatality. They had to cut her out of the car. She was released from hospital 3 hours later with bruises. Bruises, thats it.

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TerryK 12/21/2011 8:47am
12/21/2011 8:47am
MotoChief wrote:
Mythbusters tried to do that and failed. Split a car down the middle like that.
No, they did do it. lol

sbarrington314 12/21/2011 11:52am
12/21/2011 11:52am
TerryK wrote:
I always laugh at people that think old cars are safer because they are big and heavy and have thicker steel. Completely wrong. I love vintage...
I always laugh at people that think old cars are safer because they are big and heavy and have thicker steel. Completely wrong. I love vintage and muscle cars, but if I had to be in an accident I would want it to be in a new vehicle. Old cars weren't engineered for safety, new ones are.

This past weekend a 21 year old woman lost control of this 2010 sedan, rolled 3 or 4 times tearing 2 of the wheels off in the process and the car came to rest on it's roof, unrecognizable as a car. When first responders arrived they believed they would be dealing with a fatality. They had to cut her out of the car. She was released from hospital 3 hours later with bruises. Bruises, thats it.

i didnt say old cars are safer.
made with better quality materials? yes. put together with bigger and stronger nuts and bolts? yes.
i worked in a body shop for almost 5 years. ive seen how some of these new cars are put together. chryslers, kias... pffff. no thanks.
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TX24 12/22/2011 8:02am
12/22/2011 8:02am
It's amazing that fewer people in total die from car crashes then compared to many years ago. One ER Dr. said air bags save many lives. Before people would smash their aorta against the steering column with bad results.
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Titan1 12/23/2011 11:11am
12/23/2011 11:11am
A bit off topic, but does anyone else think todays road designs (in general) just plain aren't suited for the technology?

Seems like our road designs still look way to much like they did when all we had were horse and buggy or even cars with a top speed of 20 mph.

It just seems incredibly stupid to me, now that virtually any car can hit 3 digit speeds, to have trees and telephone polls right on the edge of the road....and it also seems stupid to me to have two cars (going 60-80 mph each) drive right towards each other, with only a painted yellow line separating them (that would have worked with the lower speeds...but now, with current speeds, its just plain stupid!)

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