Skoda Taxi Crash - How safe is Continental Cars ?

[Cbx750p]

What a way to go ! Straight into a brick wall at 110 kmph ! How safe is safe when continental cars are concerned ? Guess no cars are designed to crash into a brick wall in excess of 100 kmph !

 

 

CBX

[Xiao_qiang]

My god!!

 

The crash is so serious only at 110KM/h.

[Bsbs]

OMG! the wheelbase became shorter than QQ . I hope the skoda taxi uncles will now think twice b4 speeding around at F1 speed . BTW there is already another thread on this topic, but this pic is definately more gruesome!

 

http://www.mycarforum.com/forum/General_C1...hed..._P1995854

Edited August 7, 2007 by Bsbs

[Soonalvin]

NCAP ratings are relevant for

[Passion]

yup.Don't play play with pillars and retaining wall.They are build to support tons of weight.Just one tonne wanna bring it down?Think again.

[Putter]

European NCSP tests at 40mph which is 64km/h into a deformable barrier. This is 1 solid concrete, I think even trucker will be killed.

[Rickster]

Don't forget princess diana's huge merc crashed against the pillar at around 100km/hr also. No cars can survive any direct crashes at such speed.

[Rickster]

NCAP frontal ratings are based on an off-set direct crash at 64km/hr

[Familymanz]

My god!!

 

The crash is so serious only at 110KM/h.

 

ONLY?!!!

 

think maybe an Armoured Tank can survive tat speed ba..... if those metal can reached tat speed in the 1st place

[Vidz]

but inside will still be minced meat...

Edited August 8, 2007 by Vidz

[Nkps]

wonder armour tank can ever travel up to that speed?

[Mustank]

my 2.5 ton mustank kena that wall also no chance man!

 

that kind of concrete wall is reinforced with steel bar

[Nine_eleven]

you answered your own question!

 

no car is designed to handle that kind of stopping force ie: concrete wall.

 

'speeding never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you' (someone's signature)

[Soonalvin]

jeremy clarkson said that.

[Woolff]

What if it is a chinese car...pancake?

[Mustank]

http://www.euroncap.com/Content-Web-Faq/21...b0-734ae8cb74e9

 

ncap faq:

 

 

"Why have you chosen such a high front impact test speed?

By carrying out frontal impact tests at 64km/h (about 40 mph) we are simulating a car impacting a similar sized car where both cars are travelling the same speed of 55 km/h. This speed has been shown by accident studies to address a high proportion of fatal and severe injury accidents.

 

 

Should this not be higher given driving speed limits are higher?

Accident research shows that carrying out frontal impacts at 64km/h speed covers a large proportion of the serious and fatal accidents which occur. Even if the maximum speed limit is 120 km/h, few accidents occur at such speeds and where they do, it is beyond current capabilities to provide protection for the car's occupants.

[Suxelis]

Don't forget princess diana's huge merc crashed against the pillar at around 100km/hr also. No cars can survive any direct crashes at such speed.

 

She would have survived if she wore her seatbelt. I wonder how strong the skoda is compared to its cousins Passat and A4? But its true anyway there is not much difference bewteen continental and non-European cars in crash safety nowadays; as long as they want to sell in EC, they will be as strong and as heavy as the europeans.

[Turbonetics]

talking about high speed crash,no car is safe,even not for Rolls Royce.