May 6 2015, 12:35 AM
QUOTE(Dwango @ May 5 2015, 08:29 PM)
I'm a bit late in posting this but just got to know about this news today after coming back from a holiday. Apparently the writeup on Star paper on Sunday was a bit different from the online writeup here http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015...t-Family-Death/
The writeup of the manner of accident is intriguing and raises some questions. Firstly, it was said that the speeding Myvi crashed onto the Mitsubishi Pajero Sport when the Pajero was struck on the rear when the vehicle was trying to merge into the fast lane. The sentence "when trying to merge into the fast lane" may suggest that the Pajero may be driven at moderate speeds. I was suprised that the speeding Myvi that hit the rear of the Pajero had caused the vehicle to overturn several times as reported. The crash must be pretty bad. Though the driver of the Myvi survived that crash I presume. What baffles me is how can a larger and heavier Pajero Sport overturned several times and the smaller and lighter Myvi seemed to be intact with the driver having "minor injury".
Secondly, it was reported that the crash caused the three occupants in the Pajero Sport to be thrown out from the vehicle. Presuming the seatbelts are on, how could that possibly happen? Or the crash is seriously terribly bad that the seatbelts failed to secure the occupants and snapped, causing all three to be flung out from the vehicle?
Any thoughts? Really bad news this one as the deceased had left behind two young daughters.
The writeup of the manner of accident is intriguing and raises some questions. Firstly, it was said that the speeding Myvi crashed onto the Mitsubishi Pajero Sport when the Pajero was struck on the rear when the vehicle was trying to merge into the fast lane. The sentence "when trying to merge into the fast lane" may suggest that the Pajero may be driven at moderate speeds. I was suprised that the speeding Myvi that hit the rear of the Pajero had caused the vehicle to overturn several times as reported. The crash must be pretty bad. Though the driver of the Myvi survived that crash I presume. What baffles me is how can a larger and heavier Pajero Sport overturned several times and the smaller and lighter Myvi seemed to be intact with the driver having "minor injury".
Secondly, it was reported that the crash caused the three occupants in the Pajero Sport to be thrown out from the vehicle. Presuming the seatbelts are on, how could that possibly happen? Or the crash is seriously terribly bad that the seatbelts failed to secure the occupants and snapped, causing all three to be flung out from the vehicle?
Any thoughts? Really bad news this one as the deceased had left behind two young daughters.
QUOTE(kadajawi @ May 5 2015, 09:41 PM)
I highly doubt the passengers wore seatbelts, which is why they died.
Basically the Myvi must have made the Pajero lose control.
Btw., you still think that safety features are not so important? Defensive driving more important, and it all depends on fate? Seatbelts and airbags could have saved the Pajero passengers. Stability control might even have prevented the car from losing control and rolling.
Pajero is a very tall SUV while Myvi is much lower. Then if the SUV was hit at relatively higher speeds at an angle from the side rear then it will easily spin (just like the technique that police use to spin criminal's cars they're chasing). Then there's another speeding myvi at the other lane hitting it again presumably at another angle from the side, so no surprise that it rolled over, with or without VSC. To make matter worse there's a chance that at those wee hours, the Pajero driver might be a bit sleepy and hence swerved unexpectedly at even lower speeds resulting in a much bigger speed difference with the speeding myvis, and he was not in the proper condition to also do any sort of last ditch attempt to correct it. I know this last bit is speculation but it's not impossible too, who knows. Basically the Myvi must have made the Pajero lose control.
Btw., you still think that safety features are not so important? Defensive driving more important, and it all depends on fate? Seatbelts and airbags could have saved the Pajero passengers. Stability control might even have prevented the car from losing control and rolling.
As for how come they're thrown out, maybe they just didn't wear seat belts? This though with thorough investigation should be able to get confirmed whether the seat belts were functioning properly but they didn't wear them, or it was faulty (but I doubt it was faulty for all 3 passengers).
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