Crumple Zone appears to work

[sallylillian]

No comments about bad parking on the pitch. The crumple zone appears to have protected the driver and passenger although I have no fact to back that up.

 

[bigtree]

No comments about bad parking on the pitch. The crumple zone appears to have protected the driver and passenger although I have no fact to back that up.
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Now that looks like a Concorde I could afford. ????

 

[eddie]

No comments about bad parking on the pitch. The crumple zone appears to have protected the driver and passenger although I have no fact to back that up.
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Apparently doing 12 mph at point of impact!

Couldn't have been doing a lot more looking at the Sapling that it ran into that is unaffected lol

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

Ooer, expensive.

 

[JJ]

Typical...

...motorhomer smashing up trees and giving the rest of us a bad name...


JJ

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[Paul and Kate]

Skidded off the road due to grey waste dribbler ????

Still
Even at low speed it must of been butt clenching.

 

[Southdowners]

That’s awful... what a sickener!

I wonder how it happened?

 

[Deneb]

Apparently doing 12 mph at point of impact!

Couldn't have been doing a lot more looking at the Sapling that it ran into that is unaffected lol

Trees are some of the most unmovable objects at the roadside Eddie, more so than buildings or brick walls.

Having seen the crash testing at Thatcham, a 12mph impact is all it takes to completely deform front crash bars by design. Many vehicles will be total write offs after a 20mph frontal impact due to the designed in deformation of crumple zones.

 

[eddie]

Trees are some of the most unmovable objects at the roadside Eddie, more so than buildings or brick walls.

Having seen the crash testing at Thatcham, a 12mph impact is all it takes to completely deform front crash bars by design. Many vehicles will be total write offs after a 20mph frontal impact due to the designed in deformation of crumple zones.

 

[sallylillian]

I understood that there was no wood used in any German Van's?

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[funflair]

The tree didn’t survive well in this one,

And Yes it is a Vario,

Martin

 

[busby]

Apparently doing 12 mph at point of impact!

Couldn't have been doing a lot more looking at the Sapling that it ran into that is unaffected lol

Trees don't appear to sustain damage when hit with a vehicle..BUSBY.

 

[busby]

The tree didn’t survive well in this one,

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And Yes it is a Vario,

Martin

You have just destroyed my previous comment???BUSBY.

 

[steve 6644]

Hope he wasn't picking his nose at the time.

 

[sallylillian]

The tree didn’t survive well in this one,

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And Yes it is a Vario,

Martin

Another German van with wood in it!

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[Two on Tour]

Not all A class survive a good knock.

 

[GAVLAD]

It’s one of them driverless vehicles

 

[Figaro]

That front alloy looks salvageable

 

[Two on Tour]

Look how little damage there is to the truck it hit.

 

[PeteH]

Interestingly despite the carnage, the Driver seat appears to have survived? hopefully the driver did too? It is a bit extreme as "crash survivability" goes though!.

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[Two on Tour]

Apparently the driver had not twigged that traffic ahead was stationary and ploughed into the back corner of the truck wiping out his wife in the process.
He survived with minor injuries.

There would appear to only be a bit of fiberglass and a windscreen for frontal protection on that Hymer.

 

[jongood]

Its easy to be crtitical of MH safety but the rear of a truck is tough, they are built to take being backed up against loading bays day after day for years. Look what happens when a truck hits the back of another one. Driver escaped seriously injury miraculously.

 

[Two on Tour]

Yes it is easy to be critical of MH safety when it appears that you only have fiberglass and a windscreen for frontal protection in the case of that Hymer, no visual sign of a safety structure to protect the front seat occupants, you can justify that.

 

[Allanm]

Is a C class or coachbuilt van with original steel cab any safer? Probably won’t shatter like an A class, but all the stuff in the back would surely move forwards at great speed.

 

[Deneb]

I've seen a Transit van less than 18 inches long with two people inside between two lorries, and an XJS less than 2 feet tall with a couple of hands sticking out, amongst many other things during my career. If you have an argument with a lorry, don't think many smaller vehicles will come out of it well ?

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[ctc]

Not very green, damaging those trees.