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Amazing. Watching car crash tests on youtube is eye opening, and it's interesting to see what makes a good car good. It has certainly made me an even more care

Amazing. Watching car crash tests on youtube is eye opening, and it's interesting to see what makes a good car good. It has certainly made me an even more careful driver. Especially the "car runs into the back/side end of a trailer" crash type is very gruesome since it may strip the top half of a car off like a band-aid in a hot bath tub. Another good car in this aspect is the Smart car, which really punches above its weight and seems very well engineered from the crash point of view. Can't speak of it otherwise.

DennisP 8y ago
Several weeks ago I went to a funeral for a family of four, who were killed when an 18-wheeler rear-ended them on an interstate and shoved them under a flatbed trailer. I can't imagine that being survivable in any car. They were in a Ford Explorer.
- DaiPlusPlus 8y ago
  How does a Mack/Volvo truck rear-end an SUV such that it ends up under the trailer? Those locomotives don’t have much ground clearance...
  - sjwright 8y ago
    Based on how it was written, I assume that the Explorer was shunted from behind by the 18-wheeler, into the flatbed trailer of a different vehicle that was in front.
    - DennisP 8y ago
      Yep, exactly.
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- retSava 8y ago
  That's horrible, sorry to hear that.
Obi_Juan_Kenobi 8y ago
Dashcam footage (/r/roadcam /r/idiotsincars) is good for a sobering reminder of how easily crashes happen, and how hard they can be to avoid even with careful driving. ~40,000 Americans die a year; it's nuts out there.