The level of safety offered by automobiles has really gone up considerably in the last decades, and we have now reached a point where all cars, even the cheapest and smallest of them, are able to protect their occupants in the most severe and violent of crashes. Just check out this video, shot in Alabama, in December of 2012.
This man is just minding his own business, driving his Honda Fit/Jazz through the rain, onto the highway. However, something destabilizes the car, and it snaps into oversteer, turns onto its side and rolls seven times, landing on its roof far away from the road.
The video is shot from inside the car, and we get to see the horror of the crash from the point of view of the driver, who, by the way, managed to walk away unscathed!
As he gets out of the overturned Fit, he grabs his camera to capture one final shot of the wreck. It reveals that despite being severely bent out of shape, the Japanese supermini’s passenger cell had kept its shape quite well.
By Andrei Nedelea
Thanks to Marko S.M. for the video tip!
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