Damn I didn't know you could die getting hit from the rear, I always though a rear hit is safer than a front head on hit.

It looks like the driver is still alive but in critical condition.

 

no driver is no longer alive, he died today.

 

Makes me glad I have 255's on the rear and 215's on the front...

 

Edit: Long day at work, thinking at current moment != logical.

Poor driver. You gotta always have good rubber on all 4 tires. I know it may be a recession but your car is one of the the last places you want to skimp on.

 

Is that the excuse you tell your wife? hahaha

 

sad story...

like others have said, tires are VERY important.

drive safely everyone.

 

wow... yeh those tires are horid..
and look at the weather...

you know tho... accidents are a sad but weird tihng.... if you look at the passenger side... i've seen ppl walk out of worse than that.
its just so sad.

 

RIP to both passengers

s2k's are dropping off the planet like flies. What makes this so sad is that a couple hundred bucks to buy new tires (even if it was just rear tires) would have avoided this whole situation

 

No, it's not. Hitting a completely stationary object is much worse than hitting another vehicle. What I hit was a Jersey-type wall, so it has a bit more give than a permanent concrete wall. Plus, I was lucky enouth that it was angled, so I partially glanced off of it. But hitting a stationary object at X mph dead on is like hitting a car dead on at twice that MPH.

 

No, you have the math wrong.

The point is that both vehicles share the impact energy, while in the concrete wall case the car takes almost all the impact energy. It's twice as bad to hit a wall as hitting a stationary car. Thus, hitting a wall is approximately as bad as hitting another car head on which is travelling the same speed as you.

In this case that truck was heavier than the car, so the energy was not equally shared. Thus the collision in this case was somewhere between hitting another car and hitting a stationary wall.