Friends don't let friends drive Neons

[SVXyGirl]

Originally Posted by NikFu S.

Thing is, crash tests are not relegated to excess of 35-40mph. I don't expect Neons to survive beyond that.

I'm kind of interested in how far away the Suburban was as the Neon flung itself over and whether the driver was even paying attention.

These are pictures of my neon after I T-boned a van going about 45mph. The driver of the van crossed the highway without looking and I hit them. I walked away from the crash with a little whip lash. The car was obviously totaled, but I'm sure someone got some parts off of it...or it was crushed.



The best thing is that I used the money from the accident to buy my SVX

My neon wasn't a bad car, but don't think I'd own another one. I'll stick with the SVX for a while

[NapaBavarian]

Are you sure that was 45mph at point of impact, or was it 45mph when you hit the brakes?

[SVXyGirl]

Originally Posted by NapaBavarian

Are you sure that was 45mph at point of impact, or was it 45mph when you hit the brakes?

I was doing about 65 when I hit the brakes. It was a lot worse in person.

[NapaBavarian]

That look amazing for the type of impact you are talking about, prthaps they finally got it together and built a proper safty cage into the second gen neon...

[SVXyGirl]

I know. Up close the engine had jumped around from the impact and a lot of stuff had been crushed. When I hit the van I went under it a little and flipped it over. But as far as neons go I like the second generations a lot more than the first generations.

[NikFu S.]

I think you would have had much more tragic results had you smashed concretely into a brick wall at the same speed. It seems you were lucky a great deal of kinetic force was lost or not transferred to the van.

[NapaBavarian]

Something more like this?

http://www.iwiwitness.com/testimony1.php

[SVXyGirl]

Originally Posted by NikFu S.

I think you would have had much more tragic results had you smashed concretely into a brick wall at the same speed. It seems you were lucky a great deal of kinetic force was lost or not transferred to the van.

I'm sure I would have if I hit a wall, but luckily I didn't.

[NapaBavarian]

turns out the driver was friends with someone I IM with regularly I'm gonna go have a bottle

[svxsubaru1]

Originally Posted by Landshark

i remember reading that the 2002 Imprezas were designed to be twice as rigid as the previous generation. that's why i bought one for the wife - they are safe little tanks.

"ring-shaped reinforcement frames" in the front, center, and rear of the body structure are designed to disperse impact energy around the passenger compartment. the engineers knew what they were doing.

I agree with you complety all iam saying was it was complete luck that the guy getting sandwitched between two semies was pure luck, and the subie probably was one of the smaller factors in him surviving the accident.

[Landshark]

Originally Posted by svxsubaru1

I agree with you complety all iam saying was it was complete luck that the guy getting sandwitched between two semies was pure luck, and the subie probably was one of the smaller factors in him surviving the accident.

complete luck? maybe really bad luck!


if i remember right, he and the semi in front of him were stopped, and the other semi blasted him from behind.

[subi-crosser]

Originally Posted by Landshark

complete luck? maybe really bad luck!


if i remember right, he and the semi in front of him were stopped, and the other semi blasted him from behind.

My first subi was/is a 91 Legacy wagon. It got clobbered (while parked), by a 96 full sized Dodge van! It slid to the curb, and bounced back out into the 'line of fire', and was hit again, and pushed back into the curb!
The 'estimate was over $3,000., the car written off by the insurance company, and 3 weeks later, I had it at the AUTO-CROSS, and lost to an MGB by 15/100's of a second! (bent struts and all!!)

You will never convince ME that it was all LUCK!!! I still drive the car!!
BT,DT, got the tee shirt!!
Jerry

[svxsubaru1]

Originally Posted by svxsubaru1

I agree with you complety all iam saying was it was complete luck that the guy getting sandwitched between two semies was pure luck, and the subie probably was one of the smaller factors in him surviving the accident.

ill rephrase it. It was complete luck that he survived the crash the sube was probably the smallest factor in him surviving.

[Landshark]

Originally Posted by svxsubaru1

ill rephrase it. It was complete luck that he survived the crash the sube was probably the smallest factor in him surviving.

O RLY? this little gem was posted on NASIOC today:

the Jaws of Life.......pwn3d by Subaru!

[NapaBavarian]

Where is page 28?