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Offline howlingmoon

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Re: Effect of 100km/h to 0km/h on a Golf Mk6 GTD in a second
« Reply #10 on: 20 September 2009, 22:23 »
If I correctly interpret the report, the occupants except one were flung out of the car after the impact with the tree... Makes me feel how easy it is to die. Packing a car like sardines is a sure way to kill many in an accident. Sometimes we put too little value to our mortality. Always thinking we are invulnerable when we are so easily snuffed out...
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Re: Effect of 100km/h to 0km/h on a Golf Mk6 GTD in a second
« Reply #11 on: 20 September 2009, 22:30 »
Isnt there something like 7 airbags in the front and sides of the new gti ? Shows how much help they done.
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Re: Effect of 100km/h to 0km/h on a Golf Mk6 GTD in a second
« Reply #12 on: 20 September 2009, 22:31 »
Airbags only works when the seatbelt is worn...
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Re: Effect of 100km/h to 0km/h on a Golf Mk6 GTD in a second
« Reply #13 on: 20 September 2009, 23:34 »
Can't get over how the door is wrapped round the tree trunk.
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Re: Effect of 100km/h to 0km/h on a Golf Mk6 GTD in a second
« Reply #14 on: 20 September 2009, 23:52 »
60mph IS fast, it doesn't feel like it in our cocooned, sound proofed and deceptively smooth cars but you stand beside a dual carriageway and imagine cars travelling at that speed hitting an immovable object....

All that kinetic energy is going to do something - no energy absorbing crumple zones in a side on collision, just a few mm of steel.  :sad:
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Re: Effect of 100km/h to 0km/h on a Golf Mk6 GTD in a second
« Reply #15 on: 21 September 2009, 00:01 »
Looks like emergency services chopped it up to get bodies out.  I doubt that could happen in an accident.
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Re: Effect of 100km/h to 0km/h on a Golf Mk6 GTD in a second
« Reply #16 on: 21 September 2009, 02:03 »
Quote from: howlingmoon on 20 September 2009, 22:31
Airbags only works when the seatbelt is worn...

Is that true ? Surely not.
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Re: Effect of 100km/h to 0km/h on a Golf Mk6 GTD in a second
« Reply #17 on: 21 September 2009, 02:04 »
Quote from: gossa on 21 September 2009, 00:01
Looks like emergency services chopped it up to get bodies out.  I doubt that could happen in an accident.

Aha, why didnt I think of that, thats probably spot on.
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Re: Effect of 100km/h to 0km/h on a Golf Mk6 GTD in a second
« Reply #18 on: 21 September 2009, 07:06 »
Quote from: Aur on 20 September 2009, 23:34
Can't get over how the door is wrapped round the tree trunk.

That was my thought too - not only that though, but look how high up the tree it is.  The car must've been flying sideways.
I don't think airbags or seatbelts were going to help anyone there.  Thats nasty.
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Re: Effect of 100km/h to 0km/h on a Golf Mk6 GTD in a second
« Reply #19 on: 21 September 2009, 08:33 »
Quote from: VWKev on 20 September 2009, 22:08
Quote from: Horney on 20 September 2009, 22:01
Car's do split in two when they hit a tree side on, but that has to have been more than 100kph (62mph).

nick

Agreed. If my car hits a tree at 60mph and it splits in two, I'd be taking VW to court.

good luck as you'll probably be as in as many pieces as the car itself

Quote from: ub7rm on 20 September 2009, 23:52
60mph IS fast, it doesn't feel like it in our cocooned, sound proofed and deceptively smooth cars but you stand beside a dual carriageway and imagine cars travelling at that speed hitting an immovable object....

All that kinetic energy is going to do something - no energy absorbing crumple zones in a side on collision, just a few mm of steel.  :sad:

+1

most cars are tested upto 40mph

have a look here and you'll see no cars are tested in 60mph conditions

Euro NCAP Tests
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