On 10/05/2017 20:35, TMS320 wrote:
On 10/05/17 05:43, wrote:
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/drive...5jsGlRAE01C.01


It's a road with a 40mph limit. No way did that RR crash into the bus at
less than 40mph. One hopes the injury, damage and the air bag recorder
are sufficient evidence to give the driver enough points to keep him
away from other road users for a while.

I wouldn't be so sure.

It's not often that a vehicle will be driven into a stationary
obstruction at 40mph in an urban environment, and in any case, body
damage on modern vehicles can be very deceptive. As you know, rumpling
panels are designed for absorbing shock and directing energy away from
vehicle occupants. I've seen (the results of) some low speed crashes
which wrote off older vehicles simply because the bodywork, whilst
technically repairable with new panels, was nothing like economic due to
of the way that the energy of the collision was so extensively
dissipated (and given th low retail value of the car).

Have you ever wondered how it is that even high-speed motorway accidents
are so rarely fatal these days, especially compared with ones involving
Austin A55s, Ford Consuls, Hillman Minxes, etc, from around 1960? It's
all down to better, safer, vehicle design and the hard work of vehicle
designers, the TRRL, etc.

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