Stan in Oly, WA
Well-known Member
I've been watching YouTube videos of car crashes. The vast majority of them seem to be from Russia where drivers apparently buy dashcams instead of car insurance. (There's a huge amount of road rage there, too. I suspect that alcohol plays a big part in both accidents and assaults.) A very common type of accident is on the freeway where one car sideswipes another, and the sideswiped car spins out of control hitting other cars, crashing into the freeway barriers, rolling over, etc. It often appears that the initial impact wasn't forceful enough to cause such devastating results so I suspect that the real cause of most of the wreck is over-correction by the startled driver of either car. The same thing often happens in single car accidents when a driver drifts out of his or her lane or drops two wheels off the shoulder and suddenly the car is crashing into barriers, running off the road, or rolling.
If a car is sideswiped by another vehicle of relatively similar weight, travelling the same direction, and at about the same speed, would the driver have a good chance of avoiding a terrible wreck by simply holding as steady as possible to the course the car was on?
Stan
P.S. Falling asleep at the wheel or taking your eyes off the road appear to not be good, either.
If a car is sideswiped by another vehicle of relatively similar weight, travelling the same direction, and at about the same speed, would the driver have a good chance of avoiding a terrible wreck by simply holding as steady as possible to the course the car was on?
Stan
P.S. Falling asleep at the wheel or taking your eyes off the road appear to not be good, either.