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We personally hate driving around semis, but perhaps not for the same reasons as a lot of people. While they might be annoyingly slow to some drivers, we realize the incredible destructive force big rigs pack. Just their sheer size and weight, not to mention the solid reinforcements in their structure, make them something you don’t want to hit or get hit by on the road.
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This footage of crash tests between some common passenger vehicles and semi-trucks conducted somewhere in Asia helps illustrate the dangers. The commentary overlaid in the video is at times annoying and questionable, so feel free to mute it if you would like.
While people might want to use this video as indisputable evidence about their ride of choice being great or others being awful, we don’t know this safety institute and we can’t vouch for the validity of the crash test results.
What we can say is when a car submarines or goes under a semi’s trailer, people oftentimes die. It’s a scary situation and one of the reasons we give big rigs plenty of room on the road. We don’t even like driving next to them, if it can be avoided.
Just watching these cars do an offset crash on the passenger side with the back of the trailer proves that these sorts of collisions are ugly. Many of the vehicles have their A-pillars break, some of them coming into the passenger compartment and impaling the front passenger.
With others you see the B- and C-pillars deform along with the roof as everything collapses around the occupants. Even if you’re a in a huge full-size truck or SUV, you’re greatly dwarfed by a semi-truck and size, as well as weight, matters so very much in a crash.
For use, the big takeaway from this video is that giving commercial trucks lots of space on the road is the wise thing to do. We can’t believe people tailgate and cut off semis since they’re putting their life on the line.
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