Now *THIS* is a car crash!!!

Sorry, an American made car is going to get destroyed in this situation too - no way you survive a head on collision with a semi. What makes the car explode is that it's hit side on while still moving. Imagine a truck running side-on into a car at 100 mph; that's what's happening here. No amount of safety engineering is going to save you unless you're in a tank.

People die all the time from accidents with trucks, and the truck drivers aren't too much better off. The way a lot of semis are built, there's no crush zone for the engine. So when they hit something the engine pretty much goes straight into the cab.

Kevin52 wrote:

Dude in the box truck made a nice recovery.

Very impressive. Had to make a hard right to avoid the oncoming car, and then quickly got it under control. Anyone who's done this stuff in snowy parking lots knows it's not easy to regain control that quickly.

It's hilarious how people seem to think American cars are superior in quality to anything else. American cars are sh\it, the only reasons anybody buys them is that they are cheap and that the buyers are brainwashed to "buy American".

Anyway, no SUV would save the driver's life in that collision. Could have been an armored Humvee and it would still shatter like flower vase. But had it been a quality hi-tech SUV like a BMW X5 the driver would not have lost control and flown across the road like that. Those things are full of stability control and other "active safety" features and they really work (even if they make it less fun to drive sometimes). It's only in Detroit people think that safety is equal to the amount of steel.

I'd bet that the SUV had bald tires. Reminds me of Atlanta when a little snow falls.