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PostPosted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 7:46 pm 
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Did I type Atlantic!?

How embarrasment!

I meant Austin America of course. Just checked and I did say America in the article. That would have been more embarrasing.

Glad that's been cleared up.

My wife Jayne also had a Moke-crumpling experience, but she was doing a lot more than the 30mph crash test speed, and it was a head-on collision, so virtually double the impact speed.

A friend of mine also crumpled his Moke along the side-boxes. But then, he did have two wopping holes cut into the inner wall of the side-boxes for his big speakers. Funny how that takes away a lot of the strength.

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30 MPH into brick wall = 2 identical cars head on at 30 mph each.

The double speed thing is bull.

If you have a choice, crash into the parked car or another car that weighs less than yours and travelling slower. Don't hit the solid object (tree, wall) or the bigger, faster car.

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Mokesta wrote:
30 MPH into brick wall = 2 identical cars head on at 30 mph each.


Umm, not it doesn't, and besides, what are the chances of having a head-on with an identical car when you are driving a Moke? Even the Corona that cleaned me up pushed me backwards. Brick walls don't do that.

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^^^^ Get a better education 8)


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Mokesta wrote:
^^^^ Get a better education 8)


From who? Your hijack got some scientifc basis? Cos it contradicts everything I have ever read on the subject. :?

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I woulda thought that an inanimate object couldn't have the same inertia as a car traveling at 30MPH. Yes the resistance because it was stationary would = something, but not the equivalent of 30 MPH.

Can somebody prove this for us?


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From what I have seen and cut people out from:

2 cars - Holden ute and ford sedan - head on, open road (one car doing 110Kph the other up to 160KPH) = 2 dead kids and one hell of a lump of smashed metal.

-OR-

1 car in to a tree car doing approx 80 KPH - 1 dead kid and still a lot of crushed metal.

At the end of the day - despite the science - the end result is still some what the same.

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