Defenders in accidents....

instantsquid · Dec 11, 2010

Fifth Gear did a crash test with a Discovery and a Renault Espace. Makes quite sobering viewing...
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad8dHYAIhZ4"]YouTube - Fifth Gear: 4x4 Crash Test[/nomedia]

G-man · Dec 11, 2010

landrover11019 said:
Much rather be in my mondeo in an accident than my landy......

my uncle was in an pile up on the A47 in his disco (300tdi), it was so bad the disco was written off (bent chassis, tow hitch pushed up through the boot floor!) the guy in the mondeo 3 behind was killed instantly and he was 5 cars in! my uncle said you couldn't tell which end of the mondeo was which it was cubed!

khaos · Dec 12, 2010

tombardier said:
i was with the girlfriend, and she pulled in to the side of the lane to let a big truck past, but managed to pull in a bit too far and hit an old tree stump with the bumper. It bent it right in under the wing. Managed to get it almost completely straight again by whipping it off and driving over it (credit has to go to Sypher for that idea )

I bent my old bumper in on a banking. I tied it to my grandma's Disco 3 and reversed

Good as new. Got my bull bars on now though.

khaos · Dec 12, 2010

This is to illustrate how 4x4s destroy other cars in impacts. It's only an old shogun so imagine if that was a defender or a new disco.
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGTiRvvdvBs"]YouTube - Car Crashtest Mitsubishi Shogun vs. Honda Civic. The Civic is destroyed when 4wd plows into it.[/nomedia]

Mike_B · Dec 12, 2010

If you hit a defneder side on, in the body panels, as you would with a normal car, the defenders occupants would be hurt. There arent any side impact protection bars. The Defenders height, however, means that most other cars hit em low down, causing little damage and little harm to the occupants.

On a different note, My mate hit a concrete perimeter fence post at round 30mph in his 90... Post was snapped in half, held together only by it's rebar inner. The fence was flat.
Unfortunately his defender took quite a knock!
He had to spend a whole 40 quid on a new bumper!

Land Rover 1-0 perimeter fence.

G-man · Dec 12, 2010

Mike_B said:
If you hit a defneder side on, in the body panels, as you would with a normal car, the defenders occupants would be hurt. There arent any side impact protection bars. The Defenders height, however, means that most other cars hit em low down, causing little damage and little harm to the occupants.

On a different note, My mate hit a concrete perimeter fence post at round 30mph in his 90... Post was snapped in half, held together only by it's rebar inner. The fence was flat.
Unfortunately his defender took quite a knock!
He had to spend a whole 40 quid on a new bumper!

Land Rover 1-0 perimeter fence.

bloke i knew in norfolk got hit side on in his defender (quite hard too) it destroyed his alloy and he needed to get the axle replaced..... the car that hit it was totalled

Mike_B · Dec 12, 2010

Gives you a slightly smug feeling, knowing that the Defender is such a tough beast, as long as nobody else is injured...My missus took the front bumper of a car in work car park. Scratched my towball! She doesnt get to drive it now!!

ANGELO DAMATO · Dec 12, 2010

The are safe as house if driven sensibly i gues that goes for most cars but on defenders put a roll cage on as they don't have the best reputation when roll'd

juiceyv8 · Dec 12, 2010

ANGELO DAMATO said:
The are safe as house if driven sensibly i gues that goes for most cars but on defenders put a roll cage on as they don't have the best reputation when roll'd

plan to do it with the rangie.

TrigonBill · Dec 15, 2010

Had a mini (old type) slam ito the front 1/4 of 110 200tdi station wagon - totalled the mini and bent landy bumper. I crowbarred bumper stright-ish again on site and left him to explain how he wiped-out his wifes car!

allenf · Dec 15, 2010

I recall reading a Dept of Transport report into vehicle safety.
This was a formal report spanning over a decade of accident statistics involving nearly all makes and models of cars, published around 2007 IIRC.
In multi-vehicle fatal accidents on public roads, statistically the safest vehicle to be travelling in (the least likely to die basically) when involved in one of those accidents was a Land Rover Defender. This was a regressive analysis which eliminated performance biasing eg: Defender typically driven (crashed) at a slower speed than an Impreza etc.

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