Has to be the worst festiva that i have seen .

[Festiva_Fred]

Oh my....

[Festivame]

Wow it looks like the car did absorb a lot. Sure curious as to just what happened.

Festivame

[NOS-tiva]

Roll cages ftw! Always my first add to mine. Already had one pay off.

[zombietech]

It looks like a squirrel hit it from the side.

Btt seriously that is the worst festy i ever saw as well.

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[DriverOne]

That looks like a truck accident... Jeez, I'm glad there was nobody in the passenger seat. I'm with NOS-tiva; I'm now a serious advocate of roll-cages in Festivas. To look at it, you'd think it was around an 80mph combined impact, (which means the two cars were only at 40mph during the collision) but in reality I'd say that could've happened at 40mph if the car got hit by (a bird) a good sized truck.

[Rocketman]

That looks like a truck accident... Jeez, I'm glad there was nobody in the passenger seat. I'm with NOS-tiva; I'm now a serious advocate of roll-cages in Festivas. To look at it, you'd think it was around an 80mph combined impact, (which means the two cars were only at 40mph during the collision) but in reality I'd say that could've happened at 40mph if the car got hit by (a bird) a good sized truck.

two cars colliding at 40mph is like hitting a brick wall at 40mph, the speeds don't add or combine. Check with the mythbusters

That is a nasty wreck though, reminds me of the Grand Prix I found a tree with

[jamesmc]

two cars colliding at 40mph is like hitting a brick wall at 40mph, the speeds don't add or combine. Check with the mythbusters

Saw that one the other day, pretty interesting. Reminds me of that one episode with the Aspire.

[KingFish]

I love that episode, watching the fresh red paint atomize from the impact was epic..

[DriverOne]

Festiva vs. Chuck Norris.

[FestYboy]

^ the only think Chuck couldn't kill....

[rockin86ranger]

two cars colliding at 40mph is like hitting a brick wall at 40mph, the speeds don't add or combine. Check with the mythbusters

That is a nasty wreck though, reminds me of the Grand Prix I found a tree with

anybody that listens to anything mythbusters has done in the last 5 years is a moron. they forr some unkown reason don't believe in using any form of the scientific method.

[jamesmc]

anybody that listens to anything mythbusters has done in the last 5 years is a moron. they forr some unkown reason don't believe in using any form of the scientific method.

I tend to agree, but they were correct in that particular episode. I try to not take them too seriously, but I still enjoy the show at times. Their experiments/tests are usually interesting.

[kellen302]

The collision thing is correct though. According to Newton's third law. You can only impart as much force on an object as it imparts on you, or vise versa. So when you punch a kleenex, even if you're the Italian Stallion, you can only give it as much force as is equivalent to its resistive force, in this case, its inertia because it is stationary.

[neanderpaul]

Brutal! Notice, no blood.

[BigElCat]

Impact energies combine in a head-on collision. Momentum is mass x velocity. Impact energy would be momentum plus momentum minus the dissipation of any built in crumble zones.

This Festiva did not hit another vehicle, though. It hit an 8" diameter steel pole. The pole was thick walled and set very rigidly. The pole did not shear or fall over the car after impact.

You can see the first point of impact on the plastic bumper skin, just to the center of the passenger side turn signal. It looks like a 2" wide crease. The second visible point of impact was the leading edge of the hood. See the perfect imprint of the pole. This tells us it was not a wood pole.

The pole did not drop on the car. It may have been bent. My guesstimate is that the Festiva was going about 35 mph. If the pole had a concrete base, the base was not tall enough to hit the front bumper.

The Festiva partially 'orbited' the pole, meaning it spun around (in a clockwise) rotation. The steering wheel is not 'broke away', this tells us the driver was wearing his/her seat belt. The driver probably walked away from this one. The absence of blood tells us there was no passenger, the passenger would have probably been killed.

Viva La Festiva!