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Forums - General Discussion - HOLY CRAP...car explodes after being hit by a truck on icy highway

I say all the time here in my country, just separate the two opposite lanes with a tiny strong wall... 99.99% of all frontal crashes (the worst kind) avoided.

Stop spending so much money on ads or and build the damn things.



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shit no one would survive that. crazy



that was one poor driver, RIP



Anyone have a source link for the video? For some reason its not showing for me.



The car being stronger wouldn't help in this situation. Really the only thing that would is being stronger and heavier than the truck. Cars are made to disintegrate now. That way the car can absorb some of the energy from the crash and not transfer it into you.



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Found it. Work blocks that site, using my phone now. Also here is slowmo.... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d89_1330326199



First of all, they should have been going a lot slower, no more than 40mph in icy conditions, the roads shouldn't have been icy and should have been gritted, there should have been a central reservation on a road that large, and other than that, it was just really shitty driving, bad luck and slow reaction time from  both drivers. I'm usually against obsessive health and safety laws but that was just an accident waiting to happen.

R.I.P anyway, it was very bad luck.



one less idiot off the street =D



no winter tires I presume



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Not sure if people are aware, that's the whole purpose of cars to do now - to absorb the kinetic force, of course, with a truck that has more weight than a standard car, it will have more kinetic energy, to absorb that much.. It's almost impossible. There are zones known as "crumple" zones which are designed to absorb the force of impact, of course that was waaay too much force, no car would have been able to sustain that sort of impact without shredding.

RIP Driver, it's not cars fault, if anything, the drivers for what appears to be loosing control, and for lack of barriers in the middle to separate the lanes.



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