this is so typical of the bullshit truck drivers have to put up with. a corvette slams into the back of a tractor trailer and somehow its the trailers fault the guy almost died? the dot bar is in the position it should be in. hey fucknuts you drove into the back of a semi with a fiberglass body and its the trailers fault your car is destroyed and you almost got your head cut off?

http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/lucky-corvette-driver-survives-trailer-crash-experts-call-200318166.html

truck driver almost pkd me once lol. he was on the side of the highway going like 25 mph. i was passing a semi on the highway. the guy on the side of the highway decides to merge infront of the semi i was passing. he couldnt stop in time so his only hope was to get in the left lane where i was. i went off the highway then sideways down the pavement. i was going 70 mph lol good thing i was paying attention or i would have got wtf pwnt

while i doubt the corvette would of done much better even with stronger bumper on the truck...it still needs to get changed.

i mean christ look at the trailer that did best in those test...instead of adding 1-2 more supports to the guard they simply moved them out further...wtf just add more supports instead of being so fucking cheap :/

theres always going to be some dumbasses driving the trucks. im not talking about situations such as this one where the truck driver would not be at fault yet its all about how the safety feature of the trailer failed when it didnt. its still in place and done what it was supposed to (to an extent). i never really cared for those that only came down in the center anyway when i was at usa truck we had some like that and others that the bar had 4 braces and covered the entire back of the trailer.




yeah but to say the trailer failed is nothing more than trying to pass blame on. the government made the regulations that said a DOT bumper like that was ok and just fine to use. i dont even have to watch the video and i know what kind of bumper is obviously going to do better.

but i think they would also have to test for a vehicle like a corvette. the material its made from and the whole design of the car is going to make it way easier for one to still get destroyed by the other bumper probably. an impala is not really comparable in a crash to a corvette

This post was edited by JDH on Mar 15 2013 03:38pm

I drink a slushy too fast one day and got brain freeze.
It was the slushy machines fault.

eh imo this situation is diffrent, its a corvette made of lightweight materials and its low to the ground, wedge shaped im not suprised it went under the bar in this instance

I dont think it went UNDER the bar, more like THROUGH the bar. That is the issue being pointed out I believe.

idk you can see the bar in the pic, the tires and rims dont look damaged to me. but i see no problem with the vette just flying through a bar easily

the bar sheared off the top part of the car. its because the cars bumper impact zone is so low down. if you look at the video of the malibu when it hits full center on the bar like the corvette did, the bumper takes full impact and stops the car. thats how its meant to work. the corvette cannot get a strike on that bumper in the same way because of its design and height.