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Look at how cars are built ...

They're designed to crumple so that the force of an accident is "taken out" on the car rather than the people inside of the car. You can use something like Paper Mache (if you use thin layers with something light and spongy between them like cotton balls or packing peanuts it should crumple well) to build all or some of your container to take advantage of this concept ...