youre about to crash....what now..???

an accident i had this week made me think....

faced with this scenario what would you do....

dual carriageway /motorway / freeway.... 70mph or so.... you head over the brow of a hill and SHIT.... stationary vehicles.. do you...

give yourself a fighting chance and plough into the queue of stationary cars risking injury and possible death to the occupants of the car ahead of you...

or.... do you take the honourable way out and hit the tree that would probably end your life but not risk anyone elses....

an honest answer please...

 

News cars are engineered to take the hit, thats why my ride is almost 30 years old....its a plow. And since im not ready to die yet id just lock it up and let god, the cops or whoever sort the rest out.

 

depends on how drunk I am.

 

I would do everything I could to lose speed and slam into the cars in front of me

 

if new cars are engineered to take the hit...why are so many people still dying from their injuries?....

 

Just not as many. I was in an EMT class once and for a full day we talked about the advances in car crash technology. It's vital to our jobs to know the types of injuries sustained from an older moldel car as opposed to a newer one. You'd be surprised.

 

Cars are not deathproof. (is that a word) But with the ratio of cars on the road vs the deaths its way less than 20 years ago. My ins. agent explained this all to me cause, like I said my ride is 30 years old and I had to let them take pics of it(not sure why) in order for them to ins. it and the conversation led to this.

 

id lose speed by forcefully but with control, turning the wheel slightly back and forth from the right to the left (as to not spin the car) but to add more time to the slow down process and then try to hit the last car in the row on the right rear panel, as to minimize any damage to other drivers/passengers.

 

enlighten me....are there different types of injuries now?.. there have been 2 fatal accidents on the A414 near me in the last 2 weeks....did the drivers of the cars that hit them have choices?

in my case i still recieved whiplash and sternum injuries from a 40mph rear impact... my car and his were new... how would that have differed from older cars in the same situation?

 

i dont know interval...how much thinking time do we actualy get?

 

Honest answer? Brace yourself. First instinct, I would choose "give yourself a fighting chance and plough into the queue of stationary cars risking injury and possible death to the occupants of the car ahead of you". Yes, it may be a selfish way, but I've got three young children and a husband whom I love dearly and I'm going to fight like hell, just like I did two years ago when death was on my doorstep. I'm not going out without a fight.

Then again, as I sit here and think about it, how would I be able to deal with knowing that I seriously injured or killed someone? Would the guilt be more than I could handle? Would I regret my decision and wish I had done the honorable thing? I would live my life grateful that I was still able to be with my beloved family, yet severely immersed in guilt to the point in which it affected my quality of life, and that of my family.

So really, which is the better route?

 

Its obvious this is a no win topic.

 

Definitely.

 

Newer cars are made of metal and plastic that absorb impact better. The engine is also designed to drop when in a high impact collision so as to keep it from setting fire. In newer cars the windshields are made to spider out instead of shattering like the older ones. Stuff like whiplash and sternum injuries from impact are still gonna be common. If two cars hit each other at say 30mph each they stop, but as soon as you collide you're body is gonna be going 30mph towards that stearing wheel or air bag.

You're still gonna suffer some injuries.

 

youre probably right...self preservation would mean taking a chance that all involved would survive... but i dont know... i saw it once many years ago...and the driver ahead of me took the tree and lost his life... i just thought maybe i was the only one who couldnt do that... the crash i just had brought it all flooding back

 

If you ever wondered why drunk people survive car crashes more than sober people is because they don't brace themselves. Most injuries like broken limbs and stuff happen because you brace yourself. If you're body is relaxed in a crash you're more likely to survive.

 

the relaxed muscles, it's like cats who fall from higher windows, they have time to relax after they've righted themselves, whereas a cat who falls from a second floor may break a leg there have been accounts of cats falling as far as 6 stories with no more harm becoming them but bruised footpads

 

youre so right...when i was a kid my uncle was driving us to Poland and on an Autoban in germany he fell asleep at the wheel and we went off the road domn an embankment and the car overturned...we ALL escaped injury because we were asleep and relaxed....

 

why was death on your doorstep 2 years ago Hippychick?

 

6 stories and they still survive?..... so how come cats have this capability and we dont?....brace yourself is a natural reaction