BMW crash worthiness

Well Fred - No Air Bags! Luckily no passenger either as it seems as no blood....

Let turns. When I was out there most accidents or rather incidents like this were caused by U turns and those Left turns on the interstates as I presume this one was.

Now I have read in the UK motoring press that many states have started using the UK & Euro style "Roundabouts" or as you using the "Olde English" "Rotary".

There are quite a few I know of and apparently where these are in place there has been an 80% reduction in collisions such as yours and general accidents.

Never mind Fred.............. Now is the time to replace it with......... ?????

Back in '89 I had good reason to be pleased about my 1983 735i crash worthiness (thank you Dr. Dieter Waldmann) - BMW's are very good in this regard.

How did the occupants of the other car do?

PS most large German saloons are pretty robust. If the rear occupants of a Mercedes 280SEL that hit a support pillar in a tunnel in Paris ten years ago at 75-94mph had been wearing their seat belts they would have probably walked away.

another E30 goes to heaven - pity

You want to see some crash damage, look at these cars in a BMW breakers in the UK:

My 3-series seems to do OK in the crash tests.

Goodness. Lucky escape.

DAS

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On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:10:23 -0400, pltrgyst waffled on about something:

Ouch! Poor E30.

Glad you're alright though... I see you broke the steering wheel with what I call the "Jeeeeeeesssssuuusssss!" arm brace!

Pretty impressive escape considering no airbags. What was the other car? An pics?

Dodgy.

Euro NCAP give the car 2stars out of 5 (not Good)

Major intrusion to the interior - looks a pretty close call.

In most safety surveys the E30 came out very poorly.....still 50MPH is waay higher than most crash tests, and you're still in one piece!

Cripes - is all that interior trash OEM? And about that radio....

On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:51:12 GMT, "Tommy" waffled on about something:

I remember seeing the E36 not coming out very well either. However mine stood up very well when white pickup man decided to park himself in the back of me at 30mph.

One of us drove home... And the other had a space hopper in his face, no windscreen, radiator, front lights and a bonnet a foot shorter.

Dodgy.

I had a landrover with a tow-bar reverse into the offside rear door on my E36 at full speed and it hardly dented it - I was pleasantly surprised.

Crikey. My E39 is forever collecting small dents from things like supermarket trolleys and other's car doors. Far more so than any other car I've owned. I put it down to the steel being paper thin.