Awful accident

Wakka · 02-28-2012, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by ragingclue

Wakka wakka!

you rang?

ideliver · 02-28-2012, 12:35 PM

Russia from the comments...it seems the communist party didn't bother to build highways with dividers

mike the snake · 02-28-2012, 12:53 PM

Just think how much safer all cars would be if every car had a roll cage and 5 or 6 point safety harnesses.

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Originally Posted by RevsPlease

Just makes me want to put a full cage and 6 point harness in my car and drive around with helmet and Hans all the time. Drive safe everyone.

yakev724 · 02-28-2012, 01:01 PM

According to description and related videos, SUV had one male driver who was killed (no passengers).

Sad to see Russia can't afford dividers.

Wakka · 02-28-2012, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by mike the snake

Just think how much safer all cars would be if every car had a roll cage and 5 or 6 point safety harnesses.

dude... it was a SUV vs a SEMITRUCK. What do you think would have happened if the SUV had a roll cage and 6 point harness exactly? THE SAME THING.

Kroy · 02-28-2012, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by mike the snake

Just think how much safer all cars would be if every car had a roll cage and 5 or 6 point safety harnesses.

Instead of the SUV shattering into a million pieces around him, he would have been crushed by twisted metal. Another awesome way to end.

Sara · 02-28-2012, 01:26 PM

!!!!!!!

jhv · 02-28-2012, 01:30 PM

i don't think roll cages would do much, if anything, to protect against that sort of impact. i mean, they're called roll cages

JasonCSU · 02-28-2012, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Wakka

dude... it was a SUV vs a SEMITRUCK. What do you think would have happened if the SUV had a roll cage and 6 point harness exactly? THE SAME THING.

Not likely. The point of a full welded roll cage is to protect the occupant space no matter what the vehicle hits. Ever see some of the videos of WRC cars flying off ledges, hitting trees, or rolling for hundreds of yards? The cars are completely trashed, but the cage keeps the occupants from becoming crushed. Even if that SUV had a full roll cage and 5 point harness, the outcome still wouldn't be good.

koreez88 · 02-28-2012, 01:43 PM

From the description, the only body part that they found was his leg. He pretty much blew up in pieces.

He was also coming home to his wife and two kids...

Wakka · 02-28-2012, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by koreez88

From the description, the only body part that they found was his leg. He pretty much blew up in pieces.

He was also coming home to his wife and two kids...

but no... a roll cage would have been fine. just a semitruck moving at speed. PSH

As a mechanical engineer im telling you guys... he would have been destroyed... roll cage or not.

markham335i · 02-28-2012, 02:12 PM

will now be driving on the far right lane from now on. lol

CollinsE90 · 02-28-2012, 02:15 PM

I wonder what was going through his mind before impact.

escobar929 · 02-28-2012, 02:20 PM

yea, there is no way a roll cage would have done anything, there is nothing that would have lessen such impact, pretty horrific video

Blayne · 02-28-2012, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by escobar929

yea, there is no way a roll cage would have done anything, there is nothing that would have lessen such impact, pretty horrific video

You are wrong my friend, if he had the big ball that NASA used to land the the rover on Mars he still may be alive.

In all seriousness though, that's a bad way to go. May he RIP.

Wakka · 02-28-2012, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by CollinsE90

I wonder what was going through his mind before impact.

nothing that made him feel great im sure.

ragingclue · 02-28-2012, 02:44 PM

Hmm the suggestion that a MORE rigid housing would have helped him is a bit counterintuitive. Sure he might not have exploded, but his innards would be so scrambled that there would be no point. His neck would have snapped for sure.

What he needed was something which absorbed the energy. Otherwise, is acceleration would have been even closer to instantaneous than it already was. What he needed was a roll cage just big enough to encapsulate him, and maybe a hundred giant crumple zones in between the cage and the truck. Or a sobakawa pillow.

Joekerr · 02-28-2012, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by ragingclue

Hmm the suggestion that a MORE rigid housing would have helped him is a bit counterintuitive. Sure he might not have exploded, but his innards would be so scrambled that there would be no point. His neck would have snapped for sure.

What he needed was something which absorbed the energy. Otherwise, is acceleration would have been even closer to instantaneous than it already was. What he needed was a roll cage just big enough to encapsulate him, and maybe a hundred giant crumple zones in between the cage and the truck. Or a sobakawa pillow.

How about one of Wakka's women? He likes them big doesn't he?

BMWinNorthdakota · 02-28-2012, 03:13 PM

You can see his body explode (blood) if you pause and look close.

He dead

Gross

Bakeme521 · 02-28-2012, 03:30 PM

A roll cage wouldn't have done shit but contain his remains a little bit better. Fully loaded semi vs. an SUV, semi will win no matter what the suv is made of. Straight physics.

txz4 · 02-28-2012, 03:44 PM

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Originally Posted by BMWinNorthdakota

You can see his body explode (blood) if you pause and look close.

He dead

Gross

fighting the urge to try, just too appalled currently

RevsPlease · 02-28-2012, 03:51 PM

You guys are probably right about the average cage being ineffective in this kind of situation since there is such a huge transfer of energy, but you gotta wonder what they are capable of. Anyone remember the Allan McNish crash last year at Le Mans? High speed (200mph) impact into a crash barrier going sideways and the man climbs out of the wreckage unharmed and walks away. Granted we aren't talking about the average steel roll cage or LeMans car, but the point still stands.

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yakev724 Brigadier General 231 Rep 3,561 Posts Drives: 15 S3 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: NYC iTrader: (49)	According to description and related videos, SUV had one male driver who was killed (no passengers). Sad to see Russia can't afford dividers.
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jhv Lieutenant General 1699 Rep 17,304 Posts Drives: G80 M3 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Los Angeles iTrader: (1)	i don't think roll cages would do much, if anything, to protect against that sort of impact. i mean, they're called roll cages
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ragingclue One cam is enough 130 Rep 6,801 Posts Drives: VF Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: mulletville iTrader: (1)	Hmm the suggestion that a MORE rigid housing would have helped him is a bit counterintuitive. Sure he might not have exploded, but his innards would be so scrambled that there would be no point. His neck would have snapped for sure. What he needed was something which absorbed the energy. Otherwise, is acceleration would have been even closer to instantaneous than it already was. What he needed was a roll cage just big enough to encapsulate him, and maybe a hundred giant crumple zones in between the cage and the truck. Or a sobakawa pillow.
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RevsPlease Private First Class 10 Rep 167 Posts Drives: 2003 Z4 3.0i, Black Saphire Join Date: May 2011 Location: Portland, Oregon iTrader: (0) Garage List 2003 BMW Z4 3.0i [10.00]	You guys are probably right about the average cage being ineffective in this kind of situation since there is such a huge transfer of energy, but you gotta wonder what they are capable of. Anyone remember the Allan McNish crash last year at Le Mans? High speed (200mph) impact into a crash barrier going sideways and the man climbs out of the wreckage unharmed and walks away. Granted we aren't talking about the average steel roll cage or LeMans car, but the point still stands.
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