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I have no idea how this guy survived!

 

Glad I don't drive a car

 

wow... i like his new licence plate on the 05 STi... F1NLKY... that he is...

 

That guy should have gone & bought a lottery ticket that day.

 

Thats why I wont trade my truck for ten cars! I totaled a 2004.5 2500 ctd
Got t-boned by a NEON! 45 mph dead center between pass. doors, it wacked the frame real hard bent the truck like a horseshoe.

 

That is one lucky boy! I've seen some fatalities on the highways. It always makes me ill and haunts me for a long time. Someone's dad, mother, kid, it's always somebody's someone. It's incredible he didn't get killed in a horrible way.
I used to feel safe in my 2500. One day while sitting at a traffic light at a big six lane intersection, I watched in disbelief as an eighteen wheeler pulled from the left lane to the left turn lane narrowly missing another eighteen wheeler in front of him in the straight lane. Trouble was there was a white F-250 that slipped in behind the truck in the straight lane. The trailer wheels caught the rear of the F-250 and like slow motion folded the truck up like a V, turned it to the right and spit it out. Didn't even take out a tire on the trailer. The driver of the left turner said he didn't know he was on a pickup until the driver of the straight bound truck started hollering at him to stop! The F-250 driver wasn't hurt but his truck was a total loss. I'll never forget how the F-250 sounded like someone crushing a huge beer can and how it didn't seem to phase the eighteen wheeler in the slightest way. It picked the back of the 250 up like we would pick up a red wagon to move it out of the way. It was a white XL ext cab gasser. The driver said it's a brand new truck and his boss was going to freak! Sorry for rambling but that morning totally ruined my thought that a 3/4 ton truck would stop a bigger truck in it's tracks in such a situation. I got hit by an eighteen wheeler in my Isuzu truck years ago and it just flicked me into the median like a ping pong ball as he went on to hit some more cars. I guess our pickup truck frames are like toothpicks to an eighteen wheeler.

 

Size matters. In a war between 80,000 lbs and 7,000 lbs....we don't stand a chance.

God was watching over the guy in the Subaru that day. A crash that bad and all he got was scrapes and bruises. Amazing!

 

We see stuff like this pretty frequently. Weird thing… sometimes the cars look like this one and no one gets hurt and other times the cars have very little damage and the people get killed. I have seen a car that was ripped straight down the middle by a semi and the guy just stepped out of the car like nothing happened. And I have seen a car with very little rear end damage and the whole family is killed. Doesn’t make much sense.

Dumb luck I guess.

Britt

 

Hannibal,

Fact is, our trucks really don't stand much of a chance against an 18 wheeler. But to me it sounds like the lifting of the rear of the pickup truck put a cantilever load on the rest of the frame, such that the frame was not designed to deal with.

Similar to hanging a ruler off the end of the table and pushing down on the free end. It doesn't take much to break the ruler (or bend it if its metal). But stand a ruler up on its end and push down on it like your trying to drive the ruler into the table, and it would take a huge load before it broke. Still, what you saw would be an eye opener.

- JyRO

 

Your ruler principle also works with a egg. Across ways squeeze it in your hand you have a mess, but end to end try that.

Tony

 

You can stand on a couple of eggs if you stand on them just right...

 

I have to pull this one back to say I used to live right by there! WOW that guy is lucky.

I'm suprised stuff like this doesn't happen every day (the accidents anyway) around here in the metro DC area. People drive like idiots, and they go fast while doing it.