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Originally Posted by RH77
Two vehicles hitting offset at 35 mph = 70 mph combined force. The odds of surviving a collision of this magnitude, in any vehicle, is slim.
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Collisions like those occur relatively often and you'd be surpised how people can be left unharmed. Look at this collision with a fleeing suspect in one car, a mother, and her child in another car:
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/v/Ugpbbrco03s[/YOUTUBE]
Remember, when there's 2 vehicles involved, there are two crumple zones. A vehicle hitting a rigid barier at "X" speed is the same as two identical vehicles colliding head on at "X" speed, times two.