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Test shocker * UK - Show what can happen when a car crashes into the back of a lorry at 56mph!
London,UK -AutoExpress (UK) -30 Nov 2006: -- Barriers fitted to a truck's rear end are supposed to stop vehicles smashing under the trailer on impact. But new crash tests by German breakdown organisation ADAC show stricter EU laws, due in March, don't go far enough... The regulations currently dictate the impact the barrier can withstand without breaking. This is set to increase, but when ADAC tested the new standard rear underrun protection at 56mph, the bar snapped "like a matchstick". As these pictures show, the Ford Focus test vehicle was left wedged under the HGV, and the trailer smashed through the windscreen into the cabin... ADAC says the risk of fatalities in a car-to-truck collision is three times greater than when a car hits another car... (These horror pictures: Under harm: New EU laws mean trucks’ underrun bars are stronger – but ADAC test proved that protection is still insufficient)
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