Crash test videos - The Good and the Bad

Aaron Buckley · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:19 pm

I have pictures of an e30 offset head on with a 2000 Mustang, each car going around 35 mph.

The e30 didn't look pretty when done, but saved my life. I can say that weight had a significant play in the amount of damage. - AB

Wes Eargle · **Joined:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:47 am **Posts:** 3683

Chuck Frank wrote:

actually the stationary frontal crash test @ 40mph simulates two cars hitting head on with each traveling at just 20 MPH! Both traveling at 40mph would generate the force of hitting a stationary object at 80 MPH! :shock:

If facing the situation, avoiding the head-on at any cost is the safer option.

That's not the physics that I remember. If you add the momentum vectors together, you'll see that.

Carl Fisher · **Posted:** Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:50 pm

Wes Eargle wrote:

Chuck Frank wrote:

actually the stationary frontal crash test @ 40mph simulates two cars hitting head on with each traveling at just 20 MPH! Both traveling at 40mph would generate the force of hitting a stationary object at 80 MPH! :shock:

If facing the situation, avoiding the head-on at any cost is the safer option.

That's not the physics that I remember. If you add the momentum vectors together, you'll see that.

Sorry Chuck, Wes is right. If 2 vehicles of the same weight hit each other head-on at 40mph, the same energy is transferred is if each hit an immovable object at 40mph.

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