Worst crash test ever

Borderfox

Dont know what year this is...

cabrwab

At least it has crumble zones, one big crumble zone!

That is unreal.
Looks like an old car anyway

Victor

Well, hopefully the three kids in the boot survived.

corktina

jeez....some one want to say "it'll polish out?"

peasant

This must have been going faster than the usual 50 or 60 km/h ...plus it's not an NCAP style offset test either

Borderfox

Stick the kids in a trailer on the back

peasant

And before anyone brings up this old chestnut again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D827IxEJVS4

This is not a chinese van and it is not a crash test either.

In fact it was a test of the test facility itself where they took an old VW Transporter, loaded it to the gills with sandbags and smashed it into the wall at 120 km/h to see if the wall would stand it.

MarkR

From another youtube link

The test was conducted in 1992 and was part of a series of tests to commission our crash test facility. The test was of the drive system, not the car.

The car was a standard 'second hand' car except that the tail shaft was removed. 300kg of sand ballast was placed in the footwells and boot and a ballast dummy (75kg) was placed on the rear seat.

The test speed was 100km/h into a solid concrete reaction block.

Colin Jackson
Crash Barrier Manager
RTA Crashlab

Howitzer

Some details on it from youtube...

**UPDATE**
The test was conducted in 1992 and was part of a series of tests to commission our crash test facility. The test was of the drive system, not the car.

The car was a standard 'second hand' car except that the tail shaft was removed. 300kg of sand ballast was placed in the footwells and boot and a ballast dummy (75kg) was placed on the rear seat.

The test speed was 100km/h into a solid concrete reaction block.

Colin Jackson
Crash Barrier Manager
RTA Crashlab
(02) 9830 1721

So I have condensed it down to the following that you can attach to video:
"Special testing of new facility in 1992. Car was loaded with 375 Kg /827 lb of sand and was 100Kmh into a solid wall not alloy honeycomb. Not a real test of the car." a test crash of the holden commadore this is an old model so you will not find annything on google about it (i checked)

unkel

@OP, we've done that one many times before. It's a '78 car driven at 140km/h into a solid concrete wall. The safest modern car wouldn't fare any better...

BrianD3

I think a Golf V would have fared better. Passenger compartment shows amazing strength in the 100 km/h offset test below. I know it is into a deformable barrier but the car has barely slowed before impacting the solid barrier behind it. Occupants still well and truly dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B8M_FfNw3I

A 100+ km/h full head on test would be easier on the cars structure but probably even harder on the occupants. This sort of deceleration is rare even in racing crashes which tend to be glancing blows rather than sudden stops.

And obviously 300kg of ballast makes a difference...