Campfire Time wrote:
BenK wrote:
There is a difference and this accident locally telling. As this head on
(license plate to license plate) shows the Camry based CUV doing better
than the Saturn Vue based CUV
Wonder if the one with a higher front bumper is the reason it did better...
A single accident is hardly conclusive. Did any of the passengers fail to wear seatbelts? Was the boy properly secured or bouncing around the back of the vehicle like I see so many kids doing? Was the mother hanging over the seat tending to the boy, or just turned away from facing front and in a bad position to not get the protection from the air bags? Seat belts are made to protect you if only you are facing forward and not twisted in the seat. We just don't know enough about this to draw the right conclusion.
Agree that the driver of the Chevy must have been distracted in some
way to cross over the line and smack the Lexus license plate to license plate
Maybe her kid unbuckled, or some such...and why the kid died
Crash crumple zones are designed for bumper to bumper impact or into
a wall, or some such....and....is what I was talking about...how well
the vehicle did via how it looks in those pictures
When the bumper heights are NOT even...the one higher will ride up
and move FARTHER into the lower bumper vehicle...as indicated by the
pictures posted (re-posted below)
By riding higher and above the stress raiser-ed 'crumple' sheetmetal...it
may and think did on this one...hit something that does NOT have
stress raiser-ed sheetmetal...or ride deeper into the lower vehicle
to make contact with the passenger compartment
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