Effect of 100km/h to 0km/h on a Golf Mk6 GTD in a second

[howlingmoon]

The point here is not how much your car costs. Its you, the driver... Even if the car is built to withstand any impact (hypothetically), if you the driver drives like a c0ck... nothing is gonna save you or your passengers. The lady in Aberdeen aquaplaned, nothing any driver can do about it. She is lucky to be alive considering the impact.

Yeah, the GTI has seatbelt warnings which activates after 60 seconds or so. Its bloody annoying.

HM

[Aidy06]

Mind it was 100Km/h not mph. I'm not sticking up for them but it looks like a big wide road with 2 possibly 3 lanes.
Don't know what the VW seatbelt warning is like but if its anything like my Mazda it goes off after 60 seconds.

Mine starts to off when you get to around 15mph

[mac7]

Surly more than 100kmh to split one in two with a tree?

Ouch. Side impacts are the worst - there's no crumple zone to absorb the energy.

Simple physics guys - kinetic energy is half the mass times the velocity squared, so velocity has a huge effect in the amount of energy. You know how much damage an impact at 15mph causes to your pride and joy - well at 60mph there's sixteen times as much energy...

This little fact is why a surprisingly small difference in speed can have such a marked influence on the likely survival of pedestrian collisions.

Now pay attention class, I'll be giving you a test later on. 

[VWKev]

The point here is not how much your car costs. Its you, the driver... Even if the car is built to withstand any impact (hypothetically), if you the driver drives like a c0ck... nothing is gonna save you or your passengers. The lady in Aberdeen aquaplaned, nothing any driver can do about it. She is lucky to be alive considering the impact.

Yeah, the GTI has seatbelt warnings which activates after 60 seconds or so. Its bloody annoying.

HM

I'm not making a point of how much a car costs, I'm trying to make the point that you should be getting better and more protection in a car at any given price compared to one at say half the price. If a £30k car has the same safetly rating and protection of a car at £10k then I will be asking questions. As you say, if the driver drives like a c0ck then he is asking for trouble, but the c0ck driver should be more protected in a car that costs a fair amount of money.

[gizzywizzy]

That is so tragic, a total useless waste of 4 lives just for the sake of not wearing seat belts!!! Obviously driving like an idiot with a car packed to the gunnels and no belts is kind of asking for trouble but 4 lives have been lost and that is sad.

[mac7]

That is so tragic, a total useless waste of 4 lives just for the sake of not wearing seat belts!!!

Whoever was sitting next to that door stuck on the tree would have been a gonner whether or not they had a seatbelt on.

[howlingmoon]

I dont think the rescue services had cut the car and then dragged the smaller rear section several meters away... The more I look at the pictures, the more convinced I am that I will not want to remap my car or try to go any faster than necessary. Chills my bones just to imagine the impact... and in one of the pictures, there's so much blood on the street.

[GolfTi]

Shocking.

Really does make you think.

[Hairy Porter]

My Dad bought a new white car.
He died after two weeks of ownership.

After that I have never bought a white car and take extra care when hiring one.

It's a jinxed colour in my mind.

[R32UK]

My Dad bought a new white car.
He died after two weeks of ownership.

After that I have never bought a white car and take extra care when hiring one.

It's a jinxed colour in my mind.

It doesnt matter what colour a car is if you drive like a kn0b.