http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dI5ewOmHPQ&feature=player_embedded

not really much to say other then watch!

15 year old design of car into an immovable object at 120mph... most cars of that vintage (and lots of brand new cars) would do the same.

Nasty though! I think the message is "slow down"

Still similar to a head on down a country lane for example if both cars are doing 60mph.

Scary stuff.

Still similar to a head on down a country lane for example if both cars are doing 60mph.

Scary stuff.

Easily done, especially on the roads near where i live

Fully distracted by the strange facial hair. I think a accident with another car would be very different tbh

It's good to watch things like that now and again I think.

Just reminds you what driving like a plank can do to you.

It's good to watch things like that now and again I think.

Just reminds you what driving like a plank can do to you.

An others, its not a rare occasion when there is 4 generations in my car when the family goes shopping, wipe out a whole family in seconds

Still similar to a head on down a country lane for example if both cars are doing 60mph.

Scary stuff.

I drove down a road the other day just wide enough for one car, signed as national limit with lots of blind corners. The cars I nearly hit because they were doing 60+, whilst I was bricking it at 30!

On a slightly different and weirda note...

3 1/4's of that focus got absolutely mangled and smashed to bits, but just the boot and rear wheels stayed in tact-ish.

At what speed does it take to wipe the entire car out with the back end still travelling fast enough to get 100% destroyed??

On a slightly different and weirda note...

3 1/4's of that focus got absolutely mangled and smashed to bits, but just the boot and rear wheels stayed in tact-ish.

At what speed does it take to wipe the entire car out with the back end still travelling fast enough to get 100% destroyed??

into another car or a wall? i think it would depend on alot of factors i.e type of car been the most obvious, for that focus to have been totally distroyed i dont think it would of taken that much more, 130-140 maybes?

Can you imagine 2 cars travelling at 120 mph towards each other!! Combined collision = 240mph!!

Wow, my brain can't take any more, scary.

total annihilation comes to mind

It's not a very likely/realistic accident though, hitting a genuinely unmoveable massive solid object straight on? Very rare type of accident.

I remember a video of a jet fighter flown low into a concrete wall at 500mph or so, there was nothing left bigger than a grain of sand, the plane vaporized!

Actually a few years ago round my way, a couple of girls hit a storm drain head on at about 70-80mph. It can happen. Coming off a straight going into a bend.

From Mythbusters

Two cars crashing into each other at 50 mph will result in the same damage (for each car) as a single car hitting a wall at 50 mph.

confirmed

In their small scale tests, the Mythbusters compressed clay at 1x and 2x speeds. Their results showed that two objects hitting each other at 1x speed will cause 1x damage. In their full scale tests, the Mythbusters crashed two cars into a wall at 50 and 100 mph as references. They then had two cars going at 50 mph collide into each other. After surveying the results, it was clear that the two cars suffered damage identical to the car that crashed into the wall at 50 mph. The Mythbusters explained that was possible through Newton’s third law of motion. Although the total force was doubled by having two cars, that force also had to be divided between both cars during the crash.

Still dont want to be the one to try it out though.

I think Mythbusters did something like this, crashing a rocket powered car at close to the speed of sound. IIRC it was totally smashed, nothing remained.

http://videosift.com/video/Mythbusters-Pancake-a-Car-With-650mph-Impact

Andy

From Mythbusters

Two cars crashing into each other at 50 mph will result in the same damage (for each car) as a single car hitting a wall at 50 mph.

confirmed

In their small scale tests, the Mythbusters compressed clay at 1x and 2x speeds. Their results showed that two objects hitting each other at 1x speed will cause 1x damage. In their full scale tests, the Mythbusters crashed two cars into a wall at 50 and 100 mph as references. They then had two cars going at 50 mph collide into each other. After surveying the results, it was clear that the two cars suffered damage identical to the car that crashed into the wall at 50 mph. The Mythbusters explained that was possible through Newton’s third law of motion. Although the total force was doubled by having two cars, that force also had to be divided between both cars during the crash.

Still dont want to be the one to try it out though.

Thank you John - as soon as I saw the above replies I was going to post this!

They proved that head on collision impact != total combined speed

Iv heard something like this before, either way a crash over 60mph its going to get messy

Yeah that was my point but I never had the theory to back it up lol

Iv heard something like this before, either way a crash over 60mph its going to get messy

+1. I wouldn't really think there is much chance of surviving a head on crash at at much over 50. And I drive faster than that everyday.

Still similar to a head on down a country lane for example if both cars are doing 60mph.

Scary stuff.

Actually.. its not!

From wikipedia; "A common misconception is that this over-representation is because the relative velocity of vehicles traveling in opposite directions is high. It was previously thought that a head-on crash between two vehicles traveling at 50 mph is roughly equivalent to a vehicle hitting a 'wall' (a stationary near-immovable object) at 100 mph. However, experimentation in 2010 showed that due to Newton's Third Law, the actual result of such a collision is equivalent to hitting a stationary near-immovable object at 50 mph"

Just noticed someone beat me to it..

Edited 4 November, 201114 yr by apinner

A crash of any sort is nasty - regardless of speed - its the noise and though of innocent people being injured due to a muppets need for speed. That's why I got Forza 4 or hoon it up the empty (straight) bypass

Actually a few years ago round my way, a couple of girls hit a storm drain head on at about 70-80mph. It can happen. Coming off a straight going into a bend.

Of course there will be exceptions (motorway bridge pillars etc.), I said it was rare, not impossible, what is completely unrealistic is the tether prevents the car bouncing off so the car absorbs 100% of it's own momentum.

Such silly stunts don't make me think - real accidents are bad enough.

Fully distracted by the strange facial hair. I think a accident with another car would be very different tbh

I'm not so sure.

The MK I focus was considered a safe car in it's day. The results would be very similar with a MK IV golf or pretty much any other car of that age.

I think any car, even the safest car produced today, would fall apart when it presenting with a solid block of concrete at 100mph+.

Even if the car had a full cage and didn't crumple, then the G forces on the driver and passenger would have killed them as their organs hit their ribs and got crushed.

On a slightly different and weirda note...

3 1/4's of that focus got absolutely mangled and smashed to bits, but just the boot and rear wheels stayed in tact-ish.

At what speed does it take to wipe the entire car out with the back end still travelling fast enough to get 100% destroyed??

I'm not sure it ever would, because to crush the car that's hit a wall, you need a mass pushing it.

It's the mass of the rear of the car travelling at 120mph, that causes the steel to bend when one end of it is doing 120mph and the other 0mph.

As such the back will never be totally decimated by crushing as there is nothing behind it to crush it.

Of course if you hit it hard enough, I guess you could shatter the cars structure and blow it into little pieces.