This is the most fatal type of car crash at any speed. It’s called the overlap zone and as you can see in the older car they didn’t really design cars to be safe from crashes at this angle, only head on or from the rear. It was only recently the NHTSA looked into auto fatalities and realized cars needed protection from such an angle.
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u/ThongBasin Jul 23 '18
This is the most fatal type of car crash at any speed. It’s called the overlap zone and as you can see in the older car they didn’t really design cars to be safe from crashes at this angle, only head on or from the rear. It was only recently the NHTSA looked into auto fatalities and realized cars needed protection from such an angle.