re: Horrible dash cam footage shows drunk douche bag ram into a car at 100+ MPH

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Joke all you want about big trucks or expensive oversized SUVs, they won't explode like that little car did though. Don't mind spending money on vehicles that will keep my family safe from other's actions

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Full size pickups are relatively safe in most collisions, but if you roll one, you're a dead man. The weight of the truck will crush the cab and occupants usually die of massive head trauma.

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There’s not a lot of things out there that survives 100 mph (which is actually 100+ + the speed of the other vehicle) that’s a massive amount of energy transferred

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This incident is awful. But your physics are WAY off. Sorry to quibble, but when the two vehicles are both traveling the same direction, the correct way to determine the energy involved is to first SUBTRACT the speeds.

So the truck at, say, 110 and the car at, say 65.. results in the equivalent of a 45 MPH crash into a parked car, more or less.

If the two hit head on at those speeds, the complete obliteration of the truck would have been assured, unless it climbed the hood of the car.

The damn thing was moving so fast that it was a blur. He must have been going 120+.

Then he tried to run off.

Hope he dies in prison.

I would go to prison just to butt rape this guy to death

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Joke all you want about big trucks or expensive oversized SUVs, they won't explode like that little car did though. Don't mind spending money on vehicles that will keep my family safe from other's actions

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That completely depends on the mode of the accident. I spent 20+ years reading and dealing with the physics of passenger vehicle collisions and I will take a car every time over a pickup or large SUV. While we have always had a large SUV or pickup as a third vehicle I only drive it when the situation merits mainly due to safety.

The biggest disparity between a pickup/large SUV and a smaller particularly a performance car is in actuve safety. Pickups and large SUVs accelerate, stop and handle very poorly compared to almost every smaller car. Active safety is what allows a good driver to avoid accidents and or reduce the force vectors. Avoiding an accident is always preferable to surviving an accident.

Now in this particular accident, a large SUV/PU would have had significantly higher survivability and if we knew what sort of deadly crash we might be in we could choose the best vehicle. The statistics show that smaller cars are indeed safer than particularly PUs. To each their own but I will always choose a vehicle with a high emphasis on active safety as well as SOA passive safety. I simply put greater emphasis on avoiding accidents than the highest structural integrity which PU really don't have in spades anyway.

Modern trucks do not accelerate, brake or handle poorly. To say they do as a reason to rate them poorly for safety is laughable.

Add in stability control, traction control etc along with all the airbags devised by man and you have an incredibly safe vehicle.

Saw a 2010, note 9 years old now, Suburban get hit in the drivers door at 60MPH and the guy lived. Won't happen in a car.

The 2007-2014 GM trucks survived a roof crush test that dropped them 12 feet upside down and the roof deflected 2 inches.

Cars are safer my arse.

You guys who glorify drinking and driving should be made to watch videos like this.

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Maintaining a safe distance and being aware of surroundings are more important than any of the performance metrics u mentioned, in my eyes

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Obviously, the driver is the most important "active safety feature" in a vehicle BUT when the driver has to make an emergency maneuver this is where the abilities of the car come into play.

Truck driver is a piece of shite for sure.

Though dude who posted video had to much real estate in front of him to be in the left lane.