This is the most insane thing ever. It just goes to show how safe our cars really are. I've seen so many of my friends get into INSANE wrecks over the past few years, and ALL of them have survived (Connie, Dan_E, Kier, etc).

http://userweb.suscom.net/~friendlyauction/wreckedx.wmv

 

Impreza = tank.

 

wow!!!

 

He can use the insurance money to replace those God awful rims he has. Had. Whatever.

 

wow really really lucky guy.

 

Amazing and lucky.

 

21WHP on CBS!! Stupid, but funny. Its crazy that he survived that crash.

Kurlee Daddee
(THE ORIGINAL)

 

the car might be well built, but it was luck that saved that dude. when the car is crushed into a "cube" or whatnot, there's really nowhere to hide...brute force negates all safety measures that subaru might have built into the car.

that guy is truly only lucky SOB.

 

I agree, that guy was just lucky as hell... simple as that.


Oh, from the junkyard pix, it looks like someone got the engine.

 

He bought an STi.

The safety of this car is one of my favorite things about it. I love the WRX.

 

wow. i cant beleive he got out of that ok. I was expecting major front end damage or something... not a tangled mess of what used to be a car

 

it is not about "subaru=tank"...

LUCKY guy is what that is. that subaru is beyond being a tank on crashes like that..nothing can withstand an accident like that and most victims get decapitated.....

 

Luckiest man alive indeed! Although I do think that a well-engineered car has something to do with it. He's alive because of sheer luck. He only had minor injuries because the car is designed to crumple away from and around the passenger compartment.

 

how can well engineering help that situation? lol that thing was crushed!!! daym that was cool.

 

i think in a minor incident (or maybe a medium severity incident), that "crumple zone logic" might hold; but in this case, the car was crushed to that of no shape or form. there is no "passenger compartment" per se.

think of it this way...if you incorporate crumple zones on a pepsi can and throw a rat into it, a minor/moderate level impact would cause the can to crumple in a shape/form so that the rat survives, and that is by design. however, if you crush teh can beyond recognition (i.e. completely flat), no amount of safety features/design would save that rat.

it's more like:

0.1(design) + 0.9(luck) = survivor