2003 Accord 4dr crash test video w/sound

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Jul 5, 2003

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2003 Accord 4dr crash test video w/sound

http://www.nhtsa.org/NCAP/movie/2003/03%20Accord4.wmv

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that would HURT to go from 35-0 in an INSTANT.. ouch

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poor car, they could of gave it to me insted of wrecking it

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maybe its just me but it doesnt look like it faired to well in crash tests. Looked pretty harsh. Didnt look like the cars body absorbed all the energy.

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Yea um ouch, thats one more good car lost.

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the car is supposed to be severely dadamged and save the people inside any harm

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The car did perfectly fine. Its supposed to be completely destroyed all the way up until the a pillar..

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Dont forget since its hitting a solid unmovable wall, its the equivalent of a COMBINED head on impact of 70MPH.

The 7th Gen Civic has a double 5 star rating for frontal impact, so I am quite happy

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Dont forget since its hitting a solid unmovable wall, its the equivalent of a COMBINED head on impact of 70MPH.

The 7th Gen Civic has a double 5 star rating for frontal impact, so I am quite happy

No actually you're wrong. Hitting a wall at 35 mph is like hitting a wall at 35 mph. Hitting another car going 35 mph when you're going 35 mph is like hitting a wall going 70 mph. That may have been what you meant. The whole point is to say wow, look at it hitting something not moving (wall), and imagine if you hit another car going to same speed head on. It would be like hitting a brick wall going twice the speed. Get it?

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I don't think there's a Honda now that doesn't pass the crash test with flying colors. A lot of new cars are a lot safer now than they were 5+ years ago.

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For testing frontal collisions, crash-test dummies are placed in driver and front passenger seats and secured with the vehicle's seat belts. Vehicles are crashed into a fixed barrier at 35 miles per hour (mph), which is equivalent to a head-on collision between two similar vehicles each moving at 35 mph

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/NCAP/Info.html#iq8

So according to their site, I have only a 10% chance of serious injury if I had either a 35mph dead on impact with a concrete wall, and a 10% chance of serious injury if I had a headon with a combined speed of 70MPH. Makes me feel quite alot better behind the wheel in a city of this size. I used to drive a '91 Tercel Coupe and that thing made me nervous. Im not afraid of death, but I DONT want to have a slow twitching death after having a bad car accident.

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