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[lee76]

100mph head on impact.

Edited by lee76, 02 September 2011 - 05:57 PM.

[maggies_minder]

100mph head on impact.

was that engine still usable?

[Tamworthbay]

my first mini was a clubman and was written off when an idiot in a MK3 escort tried overtaking as I was turning right. I was unhurt apart from a cut to my right hand where his car had ridden up the door and I cut my hand on his indicator plastic as it broke! It was over 20 years ago so I only have 'real' pics not digi ones but if I get a chance I will scan them in. I had to hammer the door outwards before I could move the car as it wedged the steering wheel. It still drove - but not in a straight line!

[lee76]

Yep engine was good as gold, New trumpets and a check over, seeing the snapped cambelt looked like there would be loads of damage but it all survived

[maggies_minder]

Yep engine was good as gold, New trumpets and a check over, seeing the snapped cambelt looked like there would be loads of damage but it all survived

good stuff, it doesnt look like the kind of setup you'd be happy about scrapping.

[Andrew O]

100mph head on impact.

Any injuries to you ( Assuming you were driving ? )

[Cooperman]

100mph head on impact.

Any injuries to you ( Assuming you were driving ? )

Does anyone really expect anyone to believe that the picture shows a Mini which had been in a 100 mph head-on impact? If the impact speed had been 100 mph there would have been nothing left, and that applies to any production road-car.
That looks like about a 30 mph combined impact velocity, bearing-in-mind the strength lost with the flip-front.

[Andrew O]

100mph head on impact.

Any injuries to you ( Assuming you were driving ? )

Does anyone really expect anyone to believe that the picture shows a Mini which had been in a 100 mph head-on impact? If the impact speed had been 100 mph there would have been nothing left, and that applies to any production road-car.
That looks like about a 30 mph combined impact velocity, bearing-in-mind the strength lost with the flip-front.

You don't know that, All crashes are different. Were you there ?

[Tupers]

That's Bill Richards Mini after he had that massive shunt on the last corner of Brands Hatch isn't it Lee?

[Cooperman]

I can tell you from experience that that is not a "100 mph head-on impact".
The crash might have started when the speed was 100 mph, but that photo shows an impact speed of around 35 to 40 mph at most. I did more damage than that in a head-on in Italy on a rally with a 7.5 tonne Fiat truck in a Cooper 'S' with a seam welded shell, sump guard, etc, and the estimated combined impact speed was only about 30 to 40 mph.
Of course, if a vehicle travelling at 100 mph runs into one going more-or-less the same direction and doing 60 mph, then that is a 'head-on impact' of 40 mph.
The severity of most accidents is determined by the initial impact speed divided by the distance taken to come to rest, converted into a 'G' figure. So a 100 mph initial speed (that's not 'head-on impact speed') which takes, say, 300 metres to stop completely is less of an impact than a 40 mph head-on impact. The term 'head-on impact' indicates a very short stopping distance, like just a few metres, which at any speed over about 50 mph or even less is likely to prove fatal or to cause life-threatening injuries.
Remember, it's not necessarily the impact speed which kills, it's the 'G' loading on the restrained human body.

[jaydee]

The mini suffers a lot on head on and side impact, but depending on the impact angle can be reasonably stiff..

I have to add that not all the crashes are head on impact, i had to scrap a mini after a head-on impact at low speed. The shell was bent.

I've been hitted at the seam welds once, in the traffic, by a reanult coming at full speed, the impact angle was very little, but damn hard. Well some serious damage here! I tought.
Suprisingly i had no structural damage, just a dent on the front panel, while the renault was litterally opened by the welded seams acting like a can opener on the renault body. He broke his CVs too..

[Jackmorton]

My brother lost a freind in a mini crash last year when he lost control ( no one knows how or why ) and ended up sideways in the road and a BMW ( cant remeber what model sorry ) hit him square on side inpact at about 30-40 mph. The bulkhead was bent, Car between front and rear quater was about 1/2 too 3/4 of the width it should of been due to the side impact. Cross member had folder up and around back into the car itself along with passenger footwell etc. Passenger side seat ( Cobra clubman ) was folded inhalf. < so very lucky he had no passengers Front wheel a 13x7 superlight alloy was cracked from the hub bit. Pretty sure the diff had cracked off the back of the engine to.

Not a scratch on hi but unfortionally he died later in the day in hospital due to multiple organs being damaged, his spinal cord had broken and internal bleeding.

I wish i could show you pictures of the car but i dont want to upset his family. In his case a full rollcage would of helped him and i'd personally recomend getting one. Drive safely people please

[redhot-mini]

'Crashing a mini' i wish i neva found this post last night, i fink it gave me bad luck... as this morning my wheel fell of and i crashed my mini
il up loads sum pics in a sec

[Andrew O]

'Crashing a mini' i wish i neva found this post last night, i fink it gave me bad luck... as this morning my wheel fell of and i crashed my mini
il up loads sum pics in a sec

Im sorry to hear that, Get those pics up

[redhot-mini]

it wasnt a bad crash i was going like 10 mph and the wheel fell of and got stuck on the fiberglass arch and was holding the car up but its got a body kit an its fiberglassed on but its verry stong the metal broke and bent befor the fiberglass.. well i did use the best bolt glue filberglasss and filler the arches on