Volvo For Life - Your Not Kidding!!!

[tingy]

good god thats a mess glad your ok (for the most part) every time i see pics like this it makes me glad i drive what an ovlov

good luck with the ins and the new ovlov

[4 forty]

i think volvo h.q. would be interested in your photographs, they do request ones of severe collisions which help their research.

[v70_awd]

I can say I really do appreciate the safety of these cars, and ever more so with a car that was approaching ten years old, and had nearly done 150,000 mls, just a shame its gone, just a bit surreal as its as if that isnt my car on those pictures, it was a bloody good car too!!!

Steve

[v70_awd]

I think they would, have thought about sending the photos away to them, and to take on something weighing three times as much as its own weight, and more crucially to remain structurally intact in the cabin its amazing!

Check out how rippled the roof is!!!

Steve

[stinkychemist]

Originally Posted by testrider

Glad to hear you're safe thanks to the Volvo. Looking at the photos made me think though, surely we'd all be safer in left hand drive cars?

These type of on-coming collisions nearly always stove in the right hand side and thus, the driver too, so why don't we all sit on the other side out of harms way?

Aaaaagh, no, the thought of how much earache I'd get if Our Lass were on the side that got hit most.....

[carnut1100]

Having seen just how much damage can happen in even a low speed impact, I am quite happy I drive a Volvo.
The only accident I have ever been in was a very low speed one resulting in a little bit of damage to a bumper, but my brother has been in quite a few, and I have seen some of the cars afterwards. What I have seen makes me like my Volvo even more, as I have also seen how well they stand up to impacts.
My father's '79 245 has been rear ended in traffic 3 times that I know of, and those "stupid ugly bumpers" have meant that each time the other car has been towed away and the Volvo has had only minor marks on the rubber.
Volvo for life!

[pjay]

just glad you are o.k. there, it just goes to prove that, and i quote 'an old mans car' is far better safety wise than most of the latest so called super safe cars, i am more than happy with my 6th volvo and love em', hope you get better quick there mate, volvo's always prove themselves.....

[stevo48]

Happy to hear you are relatively unscathed, that looks like a hell of an impact, testament to the build quality of these superb cars.
Volvo for life and how!!!

[1stRaven]

Just moved the thread to showroom.

Glad your ok. The car can be replaced. You cant.

[Chris Wickers]

I am very glad you are OK - that is all that matters - metal can be replaced!

Whilst taking my daughter to Pleasurewood Hills in July, the third party coming the other way had failed to see the traffic in front of her stop, and so pulled out into my path to avoid going into the back of stationary traffic. I do hope she genuinely thought she could make a third lane on a narrow road, as opposed to thinking a head on smash would be better than a rear end into stationary traffic!

I do not scare easily, and have had my fair share of prangs in the past, but all at relatively slow speed, just with metal damage, never injury - thankfully.

The third party bounced of the side of my wife's Corsa (car written off) and no-one was seriously hurt. Had she been six inches further over I would not be writing this, but would be dead. It was a sobering thought.

The Corsa was great - 55mpg, cheap to run etc. and a replacement widely available.

I still however keep coming back to the fact that I nearly died. I had always assumed I would see an accident coming, and have enough time to take avoiding action - reality is nothing like this - it was instant.

So now I am looking for a Volvo to protect my wife and daughter, and as later model as possible with as many safety features as possible.

The Volvo produced 'LIV' magazine do articles on 'Volvo Saved My Life' - I am sure they would be interested.

Once again - I am glad you are OK!

Chris