KB Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 Holy shit..... That's really crazy. I wonder where this accident happened. Austria I believe..............but I may be wrong. Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willith Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 Seeing that steering wheel reminds me of the movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. The guy got into a wreck and was so scared he bent the wheel over just like that. It doesn't look like much was salvageable from that wreck. Knowing my insurance company they would tell me that they are going to repair it and not total it out. Too bad they died, but I'll bet they were having a lot of fun just before that wreck. Nanuq is showing off his tracking skills, "It looks like a car was through here recently". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomasng Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 I think Nanuq is referring to the car paint skid marks on the trees, that could have occured when cars hit the trees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cucumber_Jones Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 That is an old crash - happend last year. I remember seeing all these photos on the Audi forums. Check it out the key is in the ignition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lollipop Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 Umm where's the airbag?? IT DIDN'T DEPLOY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugwash Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 One gee is -32 f/s^2 so they experienced maybe 324 gees of deceleration? At least that much. Apart from a tree isn't solid and they started decelerating the moment the car was off-axis. Still, it was a hideous amound of rapid deceleration and the bodies were flung so far out of the car as to leave no organic debris behind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk45ca Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 Yeah yeah yeah... and I neglected the temperature of the tires and the atmospheric humidity, and threw out the rotational moment of the vehicle and the centrifugal forces too, not to mention the nonlinear deceleration as the body impacted the frame, then the occupants. It's generalities. There's no way they were only going 120mph either... but it worked out to a simple conversion to get fps. wreckedexotics.com i would say ay the point of impact the car wasn't going ant faster than about 80 mph, the halves didn't go very far after impact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryyannon Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 "Let's see, just out of curiosity... Acceleration is delta-V/delta-T. Initial velocity was, what do you guess... 120mph or better? Once they slid into the side of the tree they deformed the chassis by about 3' before it stopped compressing and tore in half. Even then the halves went another 60-80 feet. But let's say the passenger compartment stopped against the side of the tree and the halves went on beyond the tree. So delta-V is -120mph, or -176fps. Delta-T is what... 176fps/3ft or about 1/59 second? Thinking linearly here. So -176/(1/59) is -10,384 f/sec^2." So I think you left out the part about what would happen if you super-glued a Rolex to the tree just at the point of impact... No need to answer, but like I say, we're on to you, Nanuq. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugwash Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 and the centrifugal forces Reactive and fictitious? I think we can safely say "Very fast to very slow in too short a time." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bres3000 Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 Holy [censored]..... That's really crazy. I wonder where this accident happened. Their are traces of head cheese on the ground which suggest that someone was there for a picnic just before the accident. The head cheese also suggests that the accident site is somewhere in Canada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmytim Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 Seen b4, but still amazing...poor...Audi, got torn apart by trees... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clos Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 unbelievable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 Geeze jf I hope you went out and brought a lottery ticket after that one Ken Edit to add.............you too Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amptor Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 good thing it was only an audi. did the driver survive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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