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I had a similar crash about 5 years ago when someone in a pickup abruptly made a u-turn in front of me. Said they didn't see me lol. Based on how the crash felt, I was stunned when I saw how fucked up the front of my car was. Well, that and wondering how people survive freeway crashes when a ~40mph crash screwed my car up that much!

We were a bit bruised but everyone walked away. I consider us lucky the pickup driver hadn't modified their truck and it had the OEM ride height and bumpers. Lots of people like deleting their bumpers and lifting the truck. that would have been so bad.

[TheCleric]

This is the counterintuitive thing. It’s actually good that cars get so messed up in accidents now. It usually means that the energy was dissipated via the cars designed failure modes (like crumple zones) instead of just transferring all of it to you.