People, fortunately, even sometimes insurance adjusters, generally presume that in a rear -
end car crash, the person that strikes another from behind is automatically deemed negligent and at fault for the accident.
That being said, many parents may also be curious about how well a rear - facing child restraint system could protect a baby in a rear -
end car crash.
Our accident lawyers see more rear -
end car crashes than any type of car accident in our law practice.
Not exact matches
Tesla Motors and Mobileye are
ending their partnership, as a result of the fatal
car crash of a Model S vehicle while Autopilot was enabled.
An untrained or unpractised driver, lacking control of his
car,
ends up by
crashing, perhaps killing himself or others.
There in front of the station a
car had
crashed into a light post — and, to judge from the condition of the
car's front
end, had done so at a significant rate of speed.
If Sato was in the
car it'd be terrific for the championship too, as Lewis Hamilton would get so distracted by his big shiny ring that he'd
end up
crashing out and allowing Sebastian Vettel back in the title fight.
He
ended up
crashing into another
car before then taking out Ismail.
It was a massive shame for Massa to
end his home race that way but no matter, instead he got out of his
car and walked down the pitlane (which was closed due his
crash) to huge cheers from the crowd as he held a Brazilian flag with pride.
A heavy
crash usually signals the
end of the race for the
car involved, but Jose Maria Lopez was having none of that.
A few people got past but at least 10
cars ended up becoming part of a decent (but slightly slower speed) replica of the GT3
crash from Macau.
Considering the damage that was done to Vettel's
car in the
crash, naturally there were concerns he could have been on the receiving
end of a five - place grid drop for taking a new gearbox out of sequence.
On 6 May 1990, the day he was expected at Heathrow to join his team - mates on an
end - of - season tour of Singapore, Tony Adams was uninjured when he
crashed his
car, but after subsequent breath tests he was charged with reckless driving and driving with excess alcohol, but despite the ruling was told he was free to leave the station.
-LCB- «id»: 54210313, «title»: «Study shows rear - facing
car seats perform well in rear -
end crashes», «duration»: «1:05», «description»: «The findings are consistent with previous studies.»
The finding, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is based on an analysis of 506 race -
ending crashes in Formula One — a class of racing featuring single - seater, open wheeled
cars and speeds in excess of 350 kilometers per hour — between 1970 and 2014.
16 Many high -
end vehicles are already partly autonomous, with brakes that activate if sensors indicate an impending
crash, steering that prevents drifting, sonar systems that navigate into parking spaces, and cruise control that prevents following the next
car too closely.
Because the size of a vehicle's «crumple zone» can be crucially important for protecting passengers in a front -
end crash, automakers should be discouraged from shrinking
cars to enhance fuel economy.
A growing number of
cars include
crash - imminent braking systems, which rely on optics to detect potential front -
end impacts and proactively apply brakes.
It was not the project's first
crash, but it was the first caused in part by nonhuman error (most incidents involve the driverless
cars getting rear -
ended by human drivers not paying attention at traffic lights).
THE KAVLI FOUNDATION: At the
end of 2011 there were several news stories about how a battery in the Chevy Volt, GM's first mainstream electric vehicle since the EV1, caught fire several weeks after the
car was subject to
crash testing.
Stacie Reis, of British Columbia, Canada, was nearing the
end of a long drive home after visiting her sick grandpa when her
car crashed 40 feet down a steep cliff not visible from the highway.
The song is about a man that reads in the newspaper a story about a
car crash and allegedly, if you play the
end of the song backwards you can hear «Paul is dead, miss him, miss him.»
Without giving too much away, the alternate
ending includes a
car chase (and
crash), birth, and implications of death... all within a few minutes.
But a
car crash puts an
end to his rock - n - roll lifestyle when his hands are seriously injured.
THE ANIMAL (Grade: C): Rob Schneider plays a small - town doofus who
ends up in the hands of a mysterious doctor after a
car crash and wakes up the abilities of various animals.
Crash is the story of James Ballard (James Spader), a filmmaker who has a
car crash with Helen Remington (Holly Hunter) and
ends up with a weird cult of people who get off sexually by watching and experiencing
car crashes.
While speeding in his sports
car, texting about who his next lucky patient will be, he
crashes, severely injuring his hands and
ending his career.
It pretty much has everything that would please a cult film or exploitation fan; there's violence, fist fights,
car chases and
crashes, explosions, nudity, sex, outrageous punk rock looks, a punk and new wave score, a classic 1956 Chevy convertible, and a stunt that
ended up setting the world record for a truck jump at 162 feet.
When Tim
crashes his
car into a tree in what appears to be a passive / aggressive suicide attempt, Jim bears some of the blame, having offhandedly suggested moments earlier that Tim, living at home with a dead -
end job and alimony payments, would be better off dead.
An out - of - control
car race ensues,
ending with a
crash and a local diner going up in flames.
10:30 am — TCM — Topper Cary Grant and Constance Bennett are hard - living young couple who
crash their fancy
car after a night of drinking and
end up as ghosts.
The only major disappointment in Landis» quirky homage to the werewolf film comes in the mystifying
ending, in which Landis resorts to more
car crashes (a la The Blues Brothers) to provide some excitement, but in this bloody horror film, they are far from necessary.
If you're approaching a vehicle too quickly, the system will first warn you with a series of beeps and then auto brake to either stop the E250 before rear -
ending the other
car or mitigate the severity of the
crash at least.
The new small overlap frontal
crash test, designed to simulate what would happen when the front corner of a
car collides with another vehicle or object, constitutes the front
end of the driver's side striking a five - foot tall rigid barrier at 40 mph.
The energy of the
crash was absorbed by the front
end of the
car, preserving the driver's survival space very well.
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Add in the omission of any active safety features to prevent
crashes, and the Mirage
ends up on the margins of how safe a new
car should be.
Back in 2015, we launched a Road Map for Safer Vehicles to encourage both governments and manufacturers to ensure that by the
end of the decade all new
cars should pass UN
crash test standards for occupant and pedestrian protection and be fitted with electronic stability control.
Toyota Prius C was among six subcompact
cars that earned a «poor» rating in a new kind of front -
end crash test by Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
«
Cars» front -
end structures are designed to manage a tremendous amount of
crash energy in a way that minimizes injuries for their occupants,» says Adrian Lund, Institute president.
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The 45 % reduction in rear -
end frontal
crashes in Sweden relates to
cars equipped with the third generation of this technology.
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What's certain is that after the back
end stepped out, the rear tires ran out of asphalt almost immediately, launching the
car off the mountain and
crashing into the road 100 feet below.
The
car's front
end is equipped to meet head - on and offset barrier standards for North America while still conforming to European standards for pedestrian protection — thanks to hours of computer modeling and 180 validating
crash tests.
The researchers identified 2,641 property damage liability claims for rear -
end crashes of the
cars included in the study — Taurus and Sable models with and without improved restraint geometry, Volvo S70s with and without WHIPS, Toyota and Lexus models with and without the WIL system, plus a number of Buick, Nissan, Pontiac, and Saab models with and without active head restraints.
[2] Hand has also raced sporadically in the American LeMans Series; in 2006, Hand was involved in a spectacular
end - over-
end crash at the Mid-Ohio Sports
Car Course, [3] while in 2009, he won the first pole position for a BMW in eight years in the ALMS at Road America.
Crashing a sports
car that is capable of well over 200 mph can have some disastrous
ends.
The season
ended with fireworks at Laguna Seca as Magnussen walked away from his battered race
car after a high - speed
crash on the final lap of the season.
IIHS
crash tests show that compliance with the Canadian standard does not ensure guards can prevent underride when
cars run into the outer
ends of a trailer, where the underride guards are weakest (see «Not good enough,» March 14, 2013).