[baron95]

Safety is the ultimate feature in a vehicle.

This was obviously a mostly head on high-speed accident. The fact that even the glass on the right side of the 5-series is intact and intrusion into the driver space is minimal is amazing.

Note to self: Stop complaining that my G87 is 3,800lbs.

[KoenG]

Here you see the crash test results of the Skoda Fabia. It's a small city car weighting ~40% of what the i5 does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W8O6kZ7LdI

The driver would have stand a much better chance when he was in a latest gen (Mk4), instead of in the Mk1 version.

No mistery this little old car got obliterated entirely in this unequal fight.
RIP, so sad this still happens in 2024!

[Neusser]

Originally Posted by MrMarioG

There was a heavy crash with a new G60 today in Germany (Gilserberg, Hessen).

The driver of the other car didn't survive the crash (RIP), and the 40 year old bimmer driver was heavily injured. Hope he will get well soon.

https://www.hessennews.tv/news-go/bl...ei-gilserberg/

A crash like that on a Landstrasse.

I can guess what was going on.

Life's too short to do stupid shit.

[KoenG]

Originally Posted by AP

I assume the speed may have been over 40mph given that bother full frontal and offset crashes that we see via euro cap and IIHS at that speed don’t show any intrusion into the passenger cell. This has clearly happened though in this case , the footwell and dashboard look to have been moved back a few inches suggesting a higher speed?

I'd say that the delta in speed is easily 100mph to come to such a devastation of the 5 series (against a little old Skoda Fabia which almost entirely desintegrated). Even the 5 driver needed luck to survive this.

[KoenG]

Originally Posted by ddavtian

I cannot understand what this means. "Awesome crashes"?

probably translates to "Horrible crashes".

[Neusser]

Originally Posted by ddavtian

I cannot understand what this means. "Awesome crashes"?

English ain't his mother tongue, methinks. Awesome can also mean extraordinary.

[F32Fleet]

Man I hope the BMW driver isn't at fault.

[Dagey]

Wow!! definitely too much speed.
Sending healing energy to both families & especially the families of the person that passed.
Let's be careful out there people.

[M1903a3]

Originally Posted by Trevor G

Crazy amount of twisted metal and a tragic loss of a life. Be safe my fellow BMWers. Today on my way to work I was able to see a plane crash land on the Southern State Parkway in Long Island NY at exit 33 east bound lanes. Thankfully no one was killed. 2 people in the plane taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Notice the right wing ripped off, this led to a massive jet fuel spill that had to be cleaned up before the road could be re-opened.

Not Jet fuel. Small aircraft like that use 100LL AVGAS. Slight differences from pump gas to accommodate using it at high altitudes and extremely cold conditions.

[Trevor G]

Originally Posted by M1903a3

Not Jet fuel. Small aircraft like that use 100LL AVGAS. Slight differences from pump gas to accommodate using it at high altitudes and extremely cold conditions.

Did a few lessons on a Cessna a long time ago. Did not have the time to get all the hours in for my pilots license unfortunately. Guess it is just habit to call it jet fuel having worked on an aircraft carrier as temporary assigned duty for a few months. Still in the end jet fuel just sounds cooler

[mgamer5]

Omg