It is a sound safe car. It lacks electronic safety aids that I believe are not essential. Nice but its the driver they are nannying with most of these things. Passive safety in the Panda is Ok and even good. All the electronic things are also good too ....... until the fuse blows.
I saw a compilation on YouTube yesterday of (I think) the US crash authority... they crashed a large number of popular cars corner on to a concrete wall and not one car fared well. Not even the Honda Jazz or one of the large Lexus models or a whole list of world manufacturer cars!
Concrete's nearly as bad as trees. Avoid crashing into concrete, for sure.
Hard to tell who was where when it happened.
True that. I wonder if the next generation of cars will potentially come up with a way of holding up a little better in that corner-on scenario though. At first I thought it was just the Americans trying to make anything Japanese / European look bad versus some giant Ford F150 monstrosity, but plenty of American badge cars also failed miserably
In the article it mentions a tourist in a rental car took full responsibilty, it's likely the Panda was in the right.
Good point. And one thing is for certain if the insurers could have either not covered it or found the Panda driver even 50/50 they would have done so.
I wonder what the Snap on version cost on that
Blue car could have spun after the impact, just based on other driver admitting full liability
The blue car was clearly facing the other way round pre accident. The point being the blue car would not have knocked the panda onto the wrong side of the road, from hitting it head on.
100%. The fact they mention it was a rental car and driver from another country strongly suggests that they maybe forgot themselves and ended up defaulting to the right hand side resulting in that head on collision
