From the crash tests EV,s do better than ICE usually as the suspicion means tested highly.
That looks like a malicious stirring of the you know what in order to instigate an impassioned debate between two seemingly, firmly entrenched camps.
Nevertheless, it’d be interesting to know if there are any significant safety differences between the Chinese marques, Tesla and traditional European manufacturers’ EVs
Bloody hell!
Glad you were all able to walk away, even if not quite unscathed.
Airbags can easily break a nose - better that than your sternum though.
Hard to see if the Audi’s deployed - though you’d expect them to have done so.
I hope the other driver is insured.
Did you have a dashcam? - it was a particular point when I bought the S3, an now that t’ missus has just bought a new car as well I think we’ll be getting one installed as a priority.
Invaluable evidence when this sort of thing happens.
I think we’d all like to see those. The very low positioning of the battery pack and other parts designed to move over the batteries together with disconnection protocols. The Renault Zoe a European car, nil stars!
Given the recentness of the car and type of driver, I’d imagine that to be the case.
Overall the Audi/BM point I was making was that the driver in a recent A3 hatchback appeared to have come off far worse than the people in a 12 year old version of BMW’s smallest SUV. It’s not comparing like with like, but remains interesting.
And of course, you can’t choose the vehicle with which you might collide.
But I hope we can find another affordable BM X1 XDrive (that’s the 4X4 version)
Crikey, glad you both and the dog walked away relatively unscathed. Although concerning, the car is just a replaceable chunk of plastic and metal doing its job.
I fractured my sternum about 45 years ago in a car crash , I remember it being quite painful so I hope your wife recovers quickly.
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Firstly, @DrMarkH , glad to see that you all escaped without too much injury, as that piccy of yours looks pretty horrible. As for stupid driving, it’s not just overtaking. Yesterday, I approached a roundabout and waited for the guy on my left on the roundabout to pass. As he did, I pulled out behind him and then he slammed his braked on and went into reverse. Luckily I was able to quickly reversed a few metres before he slammed into me. He’d missed his exit and decided the best thing would be to reverse around the roundabout, without looking behind him instead of going round again.
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The French dont understand roundabouts.
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Some don’t, just as in Britain, but some do. I don’t know how the French are taught in their car driving schools but I can tell you that the subject is covered with much emphasis to HGV drivers, and is repeated every 5 or 7 years (depending on experience) in their obligatory refresher courses.
Nothing can excuse what happened to @hairbear , but it is not the norm in my experience. Bad lane discipline is the worst offence, but again, that is a strong point of the HGV rules of the road.
Nor in my experience. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen something as stupid as that in France or elsewhere. My experience around here is that drivers are almost always very courteous and careful when driving. It’s just the odd maniac that I see behaving dangerously.
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How do these people pass their test? In the UK the training is about mindset, it seems to me, and not just technique.
Just came across dashcam footage of the Audi driver Mark.
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Sorry Mark hope that wasnt on bad taste,
Thanks for being so considerate, but it wasn’t at all offensive!
I’d misread your post and thinking the car was yet another Audi, replied jokingly 'Not another Audi! and that I hoped you weren’t trying to wind-up @billybutcher.
I deleted the post when I realised that it wasn’t ‘another Audi’.
But I bet there’s more of 'em out there… 
Don’t worry, no offense taken.
As to the video - I very much doubt it is is genuine in car footage - it is terrible resolution but looks to be CGI. If it is genuine I doubt it is in Germany and I doubt it is at the speed suggested - at one point a very stereotypically American police car in lane 3 is undertaken by our protagonist in lane 1.
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Well spotted!
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A second suspiciously US looking police car is passed a second or two later.
On more detailed review it does appear to be depicted as Germany though. The only structure which is visible in any detail is an overhead sign which appears to be an exit on the A2
That does match a real exit sign on the A2
But the gantry is wrong and the bridge and junction afterwards are not great matches for reality.
Definitely CGI I think.
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That ghosting of the gantry does seem to indicate some fiddling. Trees are hedgrows so some time passed.
Which is why we didn’t buy one! Our VW has top marks.
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Glad you have your priorities right…sacrum can be a slow heal.
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