accident survivability in DP motorhome
This has been one thing running through my mind since our new DP purchase last month. Now the dually we had was engineered to adsorb (as all cars & trucks)a collision. The energy transfer in modern ca...
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It is going to depend more than anything else on the mass (or resistance) of what you hit. Motorhomes do well statistically on crash survival because some good proportion of the things they run into are small enough to bounce off or slide underneath the frame rails. The same survival advantage enjoyed by large trucks and why so many people are driving around the largest SUVs they can afford, when their transportation needs would be served by a compact or subcompact.
If you hit something big enough (solid enough) to crush the front end, you will be sitting in the crush zone. Even the biggest long-nose trucks fare poorly in head-ons with each other, or crashes into immovable objects like overpass abutments.
If you hit something big enough (solid enough) to crush the front end, you will be sitting in the crush zone. Even the biggest long-nose trucks fare poorly in head-ons with each other, or crashes into immovable objects like overpass abutments.
