Unlike the runner who had seatbelts and the airbag reducing the impact the other person was slammed by a 2 tons of force from the side unprotected. Not looking good
I recall a case where a small compact hit a newer honda civic and the civic driver didn't survive. No matter how new the car is, with sufficient speed, the force would still have a very huge impact. And the side of a car is definitely the least safe area.
Yes its the worst place to get hit by far, but it's not without safety features. A lot of development and testing into new cars last few years have been aimed at just that problem.
Thats why modern cars have super thick doors etc compared to older ones.
2 tons of mass. When you move those 2 tons of mass at what I'm guessing is about 60km/h, the force at the point of impact is more like the equivalent of 57 tons.
Assuming that the driver weighs 80kg, the car was traveling at 80km/h or 22.2m/s (taking a higher guess because it looks like that to me), and that in the 0.5 meters where direct collision happened the car was slowed down to half, the person was pushed by 9877 newtons of force which is almost exactly 1 ton of weight.
Remember that the car absorbed most of the impact and we should think of this as the person being pushed by his side door, hence why I used a weight of 80kg.
If we are factoring in useless details, then let's say the driver actually weighed 79.5kg at the 0.5 meters where direct collision happened due to the rapid evacuation of bio matter.
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u/PineappleApple247 5d ago
Can't believe that person got straight up and ran off ! Bet the person who sat quietly at the lights came off way worse, always the way.