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Small overlap drivers side collision is basically a partial head on collision on a two lane road? Seems like the drivers side is far more likely to encounter t
by wiredfool 8y ago
Small overlap drivers side collision is basically a partial head on collision on a two lane road?
Seems like the drivers side is far more likely to encounter that sort of collision.
- perl4ever 8y agoI don't have statistics, but what if a person is driving along a street with parked cars and someone pulls out such that the impact is on the right corner instead? That seems like a plausible scenario. Or a car is unexpectedly stopped in the right lane because of an accident or a police stop. I came around a corner with no visibility today to find a police car attending to a wrecked vehicle on the right.
- wiredfool 8y agoFirst, The energy of a head on collision is twice that of a perpendicular collision. (+-, depends on mass and such). This also applies to car -> stationary car. Second, one of the basic rules of the road is that you have to be able to stop within your sight distance. Driver side offsets were a bad type of collision, and they were particularly bad in older body on frame cars before that sort of testing, and when there were a lot of 2 and three lane roads.