is a small car or big car safest in a head on crash?

[dave]

answer = neither
http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/...lchester_woman_victim_in_Brantham_road_crash/

both drivers dead

 

[karbineftw]

Makes me want to sell my car and get something safer... badly

 

[Gary]

t's not so much the size of the vehicle its more how old the vehicle is

Look at this with Siecento:

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1aM9edDxj4"]YouTube- incredibile crash test della 600[/nomedia]

Compared to 2005 Panda:



I know which one i would rather be in !!

 

[Helz]

Focus is mid-sized and it doesn't say what type of Audi it is at all, could be an a2, A8, in between or something sporty. What's that to do with large/ small cars A very sad waste of life though, especially at this festive time of year After last year though I've taken a much bigger interest in the safety aspects of my cars!

 

[Andy Monty]

you have to remember that Ncap only crash the cars into a deformable block at 45mph....... that 22.5mph per car in the real world if they are coming together now take a NSL road with both drivers doing the speed limit 120MPH closing speed there ain't going to be much left worth salvaging......

 

[dave]

i thought it said a ford KA when i first put the link up

 

[Hellcat]

New big car vs New small car.



Not sure what the closing speed was for these two, don't think it will have been very high.

 

[AppleSei]

nothing to do with video but it could depend on the era of the vehicle.

A small modern car VS a large car from the 80's i would imagine would be safer?

 

[the mk1 kid]

I think the 500 did really well for its size, but when the bonnet of the volvo meets the screen of the fiat theres only going to be one outcome.

Anyone see the Renault Modus kill a Volvo 940 on 5th gear?



Size matters - demonstrated by the height of the bonnet on the XC whatever it is, but the age also makes a massive difference.


Tom

 

[punto_matt]

Volvo? Its a Q7. Even says in the title lol

 

[bozzy]

My best man recently had a bad crash that saw him his wife and two foster kids end up in intensive care. He expects to get around £600 k in compensation and he's in the process of ordering a 4 x 4. He was hit head on by a Nissan X-trail (he was in a Jag). All of them suffered badly and are unlikely to fully recover. I suppose personal experience counts.

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

you have to remember that Ncap only crash the cars into a deformable block at 45mph....... that 22.5mph per car in the real world if they are coming together now take a NSL road with both drivers doing the speed limit 120MPH closing speed there ain't going to be much left worth salvaging......

Andy.

EuroNcap (bear in mind there are several different Ncap programes from country to country outside of the EU) test at 42mph (60km/h iirc) into a 40% off set deformable barrier (barrier hits only 40% of the front section of the vehicle).

This is the equivilent to the average head-on on an average road, between two vehicles of equal mass traveling at approximatly 35mph, not 22.5 or 21 or what not.

Can't remember the exact science between it, but its to do with the 'forces' involved and not the speed, and ultimatly in alot of accidents, speed isn't something that kills directly, its the forces.

Car hits brick wall at 70mph, and another identicle with identicle passengers etc could hit a solid oak tree at 30mph. All could survive the 70mph smash as the forces involved would probably be less as the wall would deform and abzorb some of the energy, where as the oak tree won't. (this is only an example remember guys).

Jon.

 

[the mk1 kid]

Volvo? Its a Q7. Even says in the title lol

LOL - sorry i had Volvo on my brain!