You think you are safe in your cage? NOT!

[Zapf]

http://www.bancorp.co.nz/temp/car-crash3.jpg

http://www.bancorp.co.nz/temp/car-crash1.jpg

Reality check!

[inlinefour]

If its gonna happen then it will, no matter what. Therefore you might as well be on a bike having a blardy good time when it does...

[crazylittleshit]

You can get away from a bike, a cage crushes in on you I really don't like the idea of sharp metal coming at me. :spudwhat:

[gav]

Actually doesnt look like there is too much damage around where the driver sits, and the car has stood up remarkably well, he's probably survived this? How about if your bike was cut in half like that? How would you get on?

[Motu]

Yeah,the front occupant area looks very intact,but I wouldn't want to be a rear seat passenger,but that goes for any hatch....in anything but a frontal they are gonners.But check out the drivers door,and door glass on the ground - the glass has been ''rolled'' out of the frame.Was this how they got the driver out?

[**R1**]

Actually doesnt look like there is too much damage around where the driver sits, and the car has stood up remarkably well, he's probably survived this? How about if your bike was cut in half like that? How would you get on?U'd probly be fine....coz no doubt you have already been flung 100feet clear of the seem, its just the 2hours it takes them to find you, ya might bleed to death or sumin.

Fully dont feel safe in cages, but then who would with me on the roads:devil2:

[Lou Girardin]

You can get away from a bike, a cage crushes in on you I really don't like the idea of sharp metal coming at me. :spudwhat:

You can't be serious.

[speedpro]

The cops did something like that to a few of their Commodores years ago while I was in Perth. I don't recall that anyone was all that hurt.

[Monsterbishi]

Impressive how the front end on the car is still all but perfect, bonnet geometry looks fine, and the windscreen is still intact - so all the force that took the arse end off the car wasn't able to compromise the front - I'm thinking it was designed to do that...

As per every second or third day of the week, I almost got the bike imprinted on the side of a driver who thought a red filter was a green one, the speed she was going, had I been quicker off the lights when I took off, I'd be f&*ked - in a cage, I'd be fine.

[Darryboy]

Is that blood on the inside of the windshield and lower right of the airbag in the first pic?
Also looks like blood on the ground by the drivers door in second pic.

And looks like someone's thrown a few flowers at the car as well.

No good at all. :no:

[Wolf]

Actually doesnt look like there is too much damage around where the driver sits, and the car has stood up remarkably well, he's probably survived this? How about if your bike was cut in half like that? How would you get on?
I'd certainly hope that if my bike were cut in half like that it would be after I had rolled/slid to a stop a safe distance away.

Mind you, we don't always get a choice I suppose.

[bugjuice]

whoa, what the hell happened there?
Well I'm sure it'll be welded shut again and sold on as pre-loved, low k's, one careful owner yada yada..

I've seen some case actually, where I reckon under the same horrific circumstances, a biker would have lived, even walked away, where as the cage was a fatality. Equally, it could be far far less and we end up with wings, so I'm not saying it's any better.. Just saying... ah fuk it, I don't know what I'm saying..

[bugjuice]

And looks like someone's thrown a few flowers at the car as well.

No good at all. :no:
I've always said flowers were bloody dangerous. Look what it's done!
See, don't throw flowers at moving cars..

[Wolf]

I've seen some case actually, where I reckon under the same horrific circumstances, a biker would have lived, even walked away, where as the cage was a fatality. Equally, it could be far far less and we end up with wings, so I'm not saying it's any better.. Just saying... ah fuk it, I don't know what I'm saying..
Swings 'n' roundabouts, bj, swings 'n' roundabouts.

Both cars and bikes have their own particular risks. I always think of cars as a trap but in some instances the extra armour could be a life-saver, conversely there are occasions when it's better to kick away from the bike and leave it to it's fate while in a car you're stuck.

[ManDownUnder]

Considering the lack of deformation, but the amount of stuff removed (like half of the car being sheared off - that was a fast and hard hit that car took. Anything of medium pace would have pushed the car along the road a bit and spun it around rather than cleave off the back bit.)

Anyone on a bike taking that would NOT be in hood shape

Just my 5c... as you were!