[Previous] Talking about Z4 hit again...

 [Next] Driving in Canada Pt 2...

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

 [ZEN AND THE ART OF GUITAR MAINTENANCE] The Explosion: and shouted to me that a cars petrol tank had exploded round the corner near the Boongate roundabout. Cars.... Slowly facts start emerging. It's a car crash.... It involves a lorry, someone has seen a dead body in the road. A helicopter hovers over the site. Then nothing for a while. More intelligence trickles

 [More than Just Blues From Bluesbaby] Fun on the Web vol 4 Issue 34: Why can't women put on mascara with their mouth closed? If a transport truck carrying a load of cars gets into a car accident, does it increase the number of the cars in the pile-up...

 [Bridger.us] Crash Testing: MINI Cooper vs Ford F150: I would like to see some proof, that single car crashes are more common than a 2 vehicle crash.Our roads are so crowded with vehicles, that it dosen't sound right.Personally i would like to be the guy driving in the f150.There is a lot of talk about accident avoidance being important part of the vehicle design(better brakes, suspention etc.), but here's how i see it:Most time i can control my own driving by not driving like an idiot, thus decreasing a chance of hitting as stationary object like bridge pillar or a tree.Therefore the most likely accident scenario for me would be getting hit by someone else, which is very hard to control and avoid even if i have a good handling vehicle.I'm going to exagerate to make my point:A semi truck is probably the poorest handling vehicle on the road and if it hits a non-deformable object like a bridge pillar, it will literally crush itself under it's own weight.Having said that if the big truck hits any passenger-type vehicle on the road, it won't suffer much damage at all and the worst thing that can happen top the trucker is that he will spill his coffe.The same cannot be said about the pass. vehicle.So if operating under assumption that i'm more likely to be hit by someone else, rather than hitting something one has to arrive to a conclusion that bigger/heavier vehicle is much safer than a smaller/lighter vehicle.

[Worldmagblog.com] 'Crash course': This brave trooper turned his car around, got in front of the truck, & let the truck hit the car (I think at least a couple times) to slow it down, so the driver could pull off the road before hitting anyone.

 [Pbs.org] FRONTLINE/WORLD . Dispatches . Dispatches . Nicaragua: Crash | PBS: "I just thought, God, he has a mother," she said later. "If he had any consciousness at all, he must have been so scared and wanted his mother." So she talked quietly to him -- in English -- telling him over and over to keep breathing, that everything was going to be OK, that she was there.

[Gbmini.net] GBMINI (MINI Cooper) weblog: Crash! MINI vs dump truck: This picture makes it very clear that the dump truck attempted to drive up and over the top of the MINI - you can see the deep tire track / indentation running up the bonnet, stopped thankfully by the solid frame of the passenger cell:

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Cars, Funky Cars