Range Rover vs Peugeot 107 - Does this make sense?

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Fri 22 Nov 2013 13:44
Range Rover vs Peugeot 107 - Does this make sense? - galileo

tinyurl.com/ox8ey9c

The link refers to a crash where a new Range Rover (with just a broken headlamp) had the roof cut off, while the Peugeot 107 driver walked away.

Given relative sizes/weights/safety features, this seems a very unlikely result.

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Fri 22 Nov 2013 13:56
Range Rover vs Peugeot 107 - Does this make sense? - madf

The paper reprot has a full explanation.

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Fri 22 Nov 2013 14:09
Range Rover vs Peugeot 107 - Does this make sense? - motorprop

No common sense in Yorkshire

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Fri 22 Nov 2013 14:20
Range Rover vs Peugeot 107 - Does this make sense? - DrippingSump

I refuse to believe the driver was injured from this very minor crash. With 3 tons of Rover to protect her plus state of the art safety equipment it is impossible to have sustained an injury - unless she is made of rice paper.

This is more likely a chance for compo not working out quite to plan.

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Fri 22 Nov 2013 14:24
Range Rover vs Peugeot 107 - Does this make sense? - Bromptonaut

Maybe 'against the run of play' but shows that you're not always safer in a 4x4.

Perhaps though the rangie's driver had a pre-exisiting back/neck condition which was triggered/worsened by the crash.

Edited by Bromptonaut on 22/11/2013 at 14:25

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Fri 22 Nov 2013 15:00
Range Rover vs Peugeot 107 - Does this make sense? - bazza

A great example of the hopeless nannying, risk averse, litigious-fearing mess of a society we have created for ourselves.

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Fri 22 Nov 2013 15:09
Range Rover vs Peugeot 107 - Does this make sense? - jamie745

Was the Rangie driver wearing a seatbelt?

Lack of a seatbelt is a huge leveller, even in a 3 tonne SUV.

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Fri 22 Nov 2013 15:39
Range Rover vs Peugeot 107 - Does this make sense? - bazza

This kind of thing has happened before . A driver was shaken up in a bump and good samaritan helped them over to their own car to calm down and gather their thoughts. Rescue services then carried out one of their "a**e-covering risk assessments ( cos that's all they are really) and decided to cut off the roof of good samaritans car to remove shaken up casualty!!!! How pathetic is that?! I'm glad the government is supposedly tightening up on this clown-like situation we have with whiplash and the like.

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Fri 22 Nov 2013 15:42
Range Rover vs Peugeot 107 - Does this make sense? - jamie745

Yeah it's things like that which will make me leave injured people in the middle of the road, unless the Fire Service wishes to pay for another Jaguar. Upgraded of course.

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