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http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/article_0520dac8-1723-11e2-a6db-0019bb2963f4.html
The driver, sadly did not make it.
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Gfn8r
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Good Lord!
Can't see the driver's side, obviously, but it looks untouched, although you certainly can see deformation on the interior. Wonder if she would have made it if the curtain airbag had deployed on the driver's side. (Almost no damage forward of the "A"-pillar--even the washer-fluid reservoir is intact.)
Tragic.
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xBeastx
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Aww that's sad...seeing both a good person and car go...and also near where I live!
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garoto628
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I'm disappointed that the Civic didn't save her life, considering that the impact was on the opposite end. We do not know what was the cause of death, and I understand that the civic can't do anything about that G-force, but the car doesn't look as bad as other side swipes I've seen. My condolences.
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garoto628
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Looking at that first photo, maybe the sideswipe was indeed pretty bad.
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VTEC_Inside
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garoto628 wrote:
I'm disappointed that the Civic didn't save her life, considering that the impact was on the opposite end. We do not know what was the cause of death, and I understand that the civic can't do anything about that G-force, but the car doesn't look as bad as other side swipes I've seen. My condolences.
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The roof panels are folded in half and the quarter panel near the gas door looks to have at least slighty buckled. They dont come much worse than this short of ripping the car in half.
I'm also curious as to the injuries suffered by the driver though. The drivers curtain doesnt look to have deployed. Lateral whiplash of sorts? May have hit her head on something on the drivers side pretty hard.
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CVCC1974
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There was another recent accident (this time in Canada) involving a Honda and sadly 3 people died in the old CR-V, but miraculously the 6yr old girl survived.
Story: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Crash+survivor+classmates+share+their+sympathy+those+killed+Malahat/7399296/story.html
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av911
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Damn, that sucks!!
The car still looks better than the 9th gen.
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DCR
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VTEC_Inside wrote:
The roof panels are folded in half and the quarter panel near the gas door looks to have at least slighty buckled. They dont come much worse than this short of ripping the car in half.
I'm also curious as to the injuries suffered by the driver though. The drivers curtain doesnt look to have deployed. Lateral whiplash of sorts? May have hit her head on something on the drivers side pretty hard.
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This is exactly it.
With that sort of impact, the driver would be pulled violently toward the passenger side of the vehicle, enduring whatever shower of debris or objects that come loose on impact, and once the interior momentum shifts, the driver now gets to contend with the driver door, driver window, A pillar and B pillar, all with a force no one wants to experience.
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TonyEX
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DCR wrote:
VTEC_Inside wrote:
The roof panels are folded in half and the quarter panel near the gas door looks to have at least slighty buckled. They dont come much worse than this short of ripping the car in half.
I'm also curious as to the injuries suffered by the driver though. The drivers curtain doesnt look to have deployed. Lateral whiplash of sorts? May have hit her head on something on the drivers side pretty hard.
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This is exactly it.
With that sort of impact, the driver would be pulled violently toward the passenger side of the vehicle, enduring whatever shower of debris or objects that come loose on impact, and once the interior momentum shifts, the driver now gets to contend with the driver door, driver window, A pillar and B pillar, all with a force no one wants to experience.
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Take a look at it again....
It looks like the passenger side moved into the passenger's seat and roof folded down into the middle of the car... so the driver's head and shoulder would have hit that mass of metal. Pretty jagged metal and lots of broken glass.
If you think about the momentum and the accelerations involved.... hitting a much larger mass -semi- coming the other way is worse than hitting a wall.... it actually sends you flying back... your forward velocity now becomes negative velocity....
I don't the impact due to the bounce against the driver's wall would have been near as severe as both car and driver were moving in the same direction at that point.
I think the fatal trauma was the head hitting a wall of roof with some real serious accelerations. You had a body moving forward and a wall of metal moving backwards.. 70 mph?
The acceleration alone could have done a job on the brain too.
IMHO she was gone by the time she hit the driver's side.
The only way to be safe when hitting a semi is to be in another semi or an M1 tank.
Was she texting? I mean, how can you miss a semi?
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DCR
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You are probably right...hard to tell if the deeper impressions were made while the car was grinding to a halt or not. Either way, the odds of surviving that are not very good as you say given the vehicles involved.
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