European Marque Worth It's Cost For Safety Or Otherwise?

[Vulcann]

Either this branded car is really worth the premium price for it's sturdiness or the aluminium-like railings were too flimsy ...

 

Then again these latest type of road-divider railings might not have been designed to withstand vehicular impact in the first place, unlike first generation mild steel types that were more strong.

 

Notice the windscreen was still intact despite the scattered damaged railings lying all over...

 

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sg...4/accident.html

An accident involving two cars along Balestier Road yesterday morning (Oct 8) resulted in extensive damage. STOMPer Hawkeye cautions all motorists to "drive with care".

 

At about 5.30 AM, a Mercedes Benz ploughed through the centre divider in front of Shaw Plaza, knocking over a lamp post in the process, and ended up on the other side of the road.

 

Another car then hit the stray lamp post, and landed on top of it.

 

All three lanes outside Shaw Plaza were blocked off for one and half hours as a result.

 

Hawkeye gives us a detailed description of the accident:

 

 

[Skunk]

someone else wrote it's a Hyundai Sonata lol

[VellfireS]

It is a Hyundai Sonata..

[Beehive3783]

Yup, it's a bugeye EF Sonata

[Hermitage]

Think those green type railings are designed to collapse in that way so as not to cause major injury to the occupants of crashed vehicles. They act more like a brake to slow down the car safely, rather than letting it come to a sudden halt from speed.

[Mockngbrd]

what a shitty european car... mod till look like hyundai sommore... sux

[Contax]

what a shitty european car... mod till look like hyundai sommore... sux

 

[Nzy]

I think he knocked down a lamp post also. Very safe car. lol.