Car crash overkill ??

[bassist]

Amazing how much damage the emergency services can do to a car in such a short space of time.
Passengers escaped with "very minor injuries" which is not what you can say about the Mercedes.
Boot lid removed, roof removed, all 4 doors and n/s b pillar removed.
It's going to take a bit more than a rub over with the polish to sort that out.

 

[seymansey]

All things considered, I'd rather let the emergency services chop up my Merc to be on the safe side, than face a life potentially paralysed. Besides, it would be a write off anyway!

It's only metal.

 

[Mr E]

I've attended RTCs where one or more of the occupants has complained of back/hip/neck pains - there is very little option then other than for the rescue services to chop open the car to safely extract them. I've then subsequently heard that they suffered only minimal injuries.

I, for one, am glad, though, that the rescue services place the value of humans above the value of cars.

 

[st4]

I am not fussed, the emergency services can cut me out of my car worse cases, I'd rather they did that than I was more seriously injured or killed.

Look at it another way, after the emergency services are done with the car, its even more f*cked meaning it won't make it way onto the market as a cut and shut job as its beyond the state of repair. Some nasty accident damaged cars are bodged up and resold without many being nonethewiser. After these boys have been at it, no chance, the car is too badly damaged to be repaired to be resold on. Good, one less death trap on the road and someone else saved.

 

[Hi-Ho Silver]

Looks like those cars were write-offs anyways. How did you come by this photo?

 

[MOCAŠ]

How did you come by this photo?

Saffron Walden News | Local News & Events In Saffron Walden | Saffron Walden Weekly Newspaper | Four people in hospital after crash

 

[HowardD]

I can't work out why the photo looks odd. I can't see how they would have ended up face to face like that. No tyre marks behind the 3-series.

Oops. I'm overworking things again.

 

[219]

I've attended RTCs where one or more of the occupants has complained of back/hip/neck pains - there is very little option then other than for the rescue services to chop open the car to safely extract them. I've then subsequently heard that they suffered only minimal injuries.

I, for one, am glad, though, that the rescue services place the value of humans above the value of cars.

I heard of a case a couple of years ago , where Police attended a crash and allowed a 'walking wounded' casualty , who had got out of his car by himself , to sit in the back of their patrol car . Some time later , the casualty started complaining of neck pain , so FF's cut the roof off the new patrol car which had never been involved in the crash , to extricate him on a spine board ! Apparently , the police were not best pleased but could do nothing as Fire & Rescue have premacy in such circumstances .

 

[Rashman]

I can't work out why the photo looks odd. I can't see how they would have ended up face to face like that. No tyre marks behind the 3-series.

Oops. I'm overworking things again.

Actually, I agree.

 

[stwat]

Actually, I agree.

ABS and or total lack of time to react before impact.

 

[Mr E]

ABS and or total lack of time to react before impact.

Nope - reading the story says that the car with the roof chopped off had overturned, so these are not in their original positions. Also, no pic of the third car involved either.

 

[The mallard]

Perhaps the vehicles had been placed into their impact positons as part of the accident reconstruction when the photograph was taken?

Note the yelow crosses marking the wheels on the road

 

[corned]

^ Good call.

 

[bassist]

The vehicle which overturned -the 3rd involved -was a Chrysler PT Cruiser- not in photo.

I wasn't being critical of the ES just amazed as to how much of the car they removed to extricate the passenger. It does look from the photo that the driver could probably have walked out as there appears to be no intrusion onto the cabin area.

 

[The mallard]

In a head on collision like that the 'sudden stop' puts huge forces through the neck. As other posters have said, the paramedics must play safe and assume the worst. To remove someone on a spinal board necessitates removing the roof and sliding the door down their back. The doors are removed to allow the lifting of the person with no movement of their neck or back, I am actually surprised the seat backs were not cut off as well.

As for walking away, I kniow of a motorcyclist who fell off and slid into the back of a car at low speed. He stood up and moved his head, and dropped dead with a broken neck----quite horrible!