On our Alabama Consumer Law Blog, we recently posted about the requirement by Hyundai to submit any claims to arbitration. While you ponder that from a consumer standpoint on being able to properly enforce your lemon law rights, consider this interesting video of a Hyundai van. We don't know the details but it does cause you to raise an eyebrow, eh?
Here is one more car wreck video - of course in the real world the impact is not always so controlled but this does show what happens to a car in a frontal impact....
This video is a little bit long (15 minutes) but it is very interesting to see what happens to various popular vehicles when there is an impact from all different directions. This reminds us why the human body can be so badly injured - even if the car survives - that force and energy from the impact can travel to the human body. We hope you find this video interesting and educational and make your own experience with crashing cars limited to watching videos....
We found this YouTube video showing what happens when a 4X4 t-bones an older (1992) Honda. This shows the terrible impact that can result when high speeds are involved in a wreck. Be careful out there driving....
You can also see the vulnerability of SUVs to roll over when in a wreck.
As you know, we highly recommend Ken Shigley's blog - one reason is the depth and variety of posts he has including a nice variety of videos. One new video he has involves a YouTube video of a bobtail tractor (just the truck part without the trailer) skidding on wet pavement. Its interesting, particularly if you are looking at a truck case. Here is the video:
Over the years we have handled numerous trucking cases but what is shown in this excellent video which Ken Shigley has posted about is not something we have seen in video form. It shows what happens to a vehicle that strikes a truck from the side and then what happens when the truck is equipped with safety devices to minimize the harm to the vehicle's driver. First, though, the video shows a rear impact with and without the safety devices. Take a look at the video:
This video makes it very easy to see why truck wrecks so often result in the death of the driver of the car even if the truck is not moving. Be careful out on the roads since we don't (for some reason) have the same safety devices as other countries on our trucks.
Thanks to Ken Shigley of the excellent Atlanta Injury Law Blog who alerted us to this fascinating link of a video of a truck jack-knifing, hitting a vehicle, and ending up in flames. This graphically illustrates why truck wrecks can happen so fast and be so deadly.
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