Funked: "Why I drive my car like a grapefruit"

[JB73]

here's the red ford:

http://www.wreckedexotics.com/newphotos/bad/index6.shtml






seeing a trend here.... maybe the trees WERE modeled right in AH when they would kill you LOL.

[FUNKED1]

Originally posted by JB73
kinda like this one:

Lazs might wanna note that is a ladder frame vehicle...
Body on frame construction does nothing for occupant safety.  If you want to survive accidents like that, you need a full competition cage.

[lasersailor184]

Hehe, those trees pwned those rice rockets.



I know someone that was going too fast into a Red Light.  He forgot to brake until the last moment.  His car turned sideways and hit the car infront of him with enough force that his care split in two and shot across the intersection.  Somehow, he was alright.

[texace]

Tain't nothing rice about those two cars, Laser.

[Dowding]

Jeep Cherokees are rice?

[SunTracker]

Compared with light plane crashes, these car crashes are mild.

[capt. apathy]

Look at the dent in the steering wheel. I'm pretty sure that was made by a head. He was probably ejected after that.

you might be suprised at how little impact it takes to do that to the wheel.  I had a simular bend (about 75% as bad as that) to the wheel of a 72 nova I was driving in a HO ( I was doing maybe 10mph, on-coming was doing 35 and excelerating). the damage was done by my hand that was holding the wheel at the time.  It bent enough that my hand punched a 3" deep chunk out of the dash without even letting go of the wheel clutched in my fist.

I saw a car that came apart in a wreck like that on my way home from work a few years ago.  it was in the oncoming lane of the freeway and aparently hit a lightpole.  the door was wrapped around the pole (much like the tree pic) about 15' up the pole.

when we came upon the wreck we first noticed that there was no oncoming traffic (freeway closed)  then about 1/4 mile before the point of impact we see the engine and what apeared to be the floor of the drivers side front.  a coupple hundred yards later we see wheels with parts of axels attached, seats and other heavier parts, with the pieces all nicely sorted ( heaviest to lightest) as you make your way to the impact scene.  at the scene there where 3 break-away light-poles down.  luckly there was only one tarped body and no other vehicles involved so it apeared he only took out himself.  very sobering.

[Sandman]

Originally posted by lasersailor184
Hehe, those trees pwned those rice rockets.
 

Looks like a Jeep...

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[hyena426]

ya,,if they were doing 90kph there is no way they would survive,,ouchies,,,i seen on discovery channel they were doing test too see what a 50mph head on would do to the human body,,hitting a car at 50mph head on is about the same as jumping off a 5 storie building on the body,,,eeeeek,,lol

[gofaster]

That's why no sanctioning body will race fully-stock cars anymore, other than the parking-lot cone rallyes where the cars hardly get out of 2nd gear.