>I thought the impact was frontal ?30mph. What the hell was he driving? A
>Morris Minor?
>Robbie Coull
It was a late middle-aged Siera estate.
The explanation for the very severe deformation is that the impact was
almost exatctly head on but involved less than 1/2 the width of the vehicle
hitting an utterly imovable concrete wall.
I'm sure you have seen the pictures of "crash tests" which involve 30mph
impact into a large steel faced concrete block - this was the same sort of
thing but with a much smaller impact area.
Impact speed can't have been very much above 30 - 35 because of the
distance from a traffic light where the car had been stationary.
Martin Hargreaves
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