Smart Car Gets Hit by TWO Trucks

ee-YOW!!

What you see here is, essentially, a real-world crash test of the much loved (by some) Mercedes Benz Smart ForTwo city car.

This comes by way of CarScoop by way of Jalopnik, and it happened somewhere in North America (there’s some discussion going on as to whether it’s the USA or Canada). Seems that this particular Smart ForTwo got rear-ended by a friggin’ GMC box truck (gross weight of around 10 to 12 thousand pounds) and THEN it got creamed in an offset frontal impact by a FULL SIZED GMC van (and those weigh in at, what, 5500 or 6000 pounds?).

Yes, It might be small, but it’s a small Mercedes Benz, and those guys know how to build them tough.

I know form personal experience. I used to own an 84 300 turbo diesel. We called it The Bismarck because, “it’ll take a lucky shot from the Royal Navy to stop this thing.” Seems like that can be applied here as well. Yes, I know. Physics, size, crush-space, mass, momentum, etc.. But small and light doesn’t mean “unsafe”; it just means that safety is more of an engineering challenge.

Holy crap. I knew these things were safe, but wow.

There’s a video on YouTube where Tiff Needell of Fifth Gear crashed one of those smart’s into a jersey barrier at highway speeds. They were blown away by how well it stood up to the crash.

The car has fender mounted side turn indicator repeaters, not something that appears on US market vehicles under their FMVSS-108 regulations. (Unless the particular lamps are ‘dummied’).

This article states that this photo was taken somewhere in North America, but there is discussion as to the country that it happened in. But they’re able to give the make and gross weight of the vehicles it hit?

Smart For Two ? How About “Coffin For Two” I’ve seen them totally destroyed in a SOLO accident - mercedes or not - it only takes one foot to crush a beer can

This site shows additional pics. It’s a Toronto police car at the scene, so I’m guessing Canada…

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