crumple zones and your safety

[ambermarine]

Here we have a bad rear ender that hopefully the occupants were not in situ  but it shows how well any one in the cabin would have been protected.

[J88TEO]

Engineered with safety in mind....Now these were built by engineers not accountants.

[steve2006]

Given its  position I would imagine the fuel tank was unmarked as well.

It looks still driveable.

[Malc]

bugger seeing out the rear view mirror though 

Malc

[steve2006]

1 hour ago, Malc said:

bugger seeing out the rear view mirror though 

Malc

Door mirrors look intact plus they are electrically adjustable.

Considering there is no Euro NCAP rating on this model I think looking at those pictures it would attain the full 5 stars in the test.

This is also not a brand new car so even after years of use causing structural wear and tear it held out!

[BigBoomer]

Got hit high up by an SUV or a pickup. If it had been a regular car the penetration would have been way less.
The bumper bar has been pushed down but has hardly moved inwards.
I never did understand what the point was of crash testing cars against walls when most crashes are car-car and their bumpers are all at different heights?
Yay, another reason to hate SUVs along with their restriction of forward sight-lines and their drivers inability to gauge the width of their vehicle.

 

[royoftherovers]

17 hours ago, ambermarine said:

Here we have a bad rear ender that hopefully the occupants were not in situ  but it shows how well any one in the cabin would have been protected.

Phil,

Was that a right hand drive car and was the photo taken in UK ?

[J88TEO]

From the 2nd photo looks like left hand drive.

[royoftherovers]

26 minutes ago, J88TEO said:

From the 2nd photo looks like left hand drive.

Could be Jo.The main damage to the rear is to the nearside (on a left hand drive),which is the offside on a right hand drive car.

Such a collision (to the offside on a rh drive car), although possible, would not occur often in UK, which is why I asked Phil the question.

[PCM]

"It'll polish out."

 

[ambermarine]

I gained the shots from copart internationals website of salvage vehicles and this one was wrecked in the UAE.

I think we will have to get VAR to sort out who's offside.

[royoftherovers]

17 minutes ago, ambermarine said:

I gained the shots from copart internationals website of salvage vehicles and this one was wrecked in the UAE.

I think we will have to get VAR to sort out who's offside.

Thanks Phil.

They drive on the right,so that answers a lot of questions.