Can a 10 mph accident cause frame damage?

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Based on your experiences with the bumper cars at the carnival.

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Physics and a comprehensive understanding of the space time continuum In a non binary star system.

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I suggest you actually try that sometime. a 5mph crash is NOT going to cause that much damage. Not even close. My son was in an accident in his Mazda last winter. Some guy slid into him on an icy road doing about 10mph and did far less damage. I was behind my son and witnessed the whole thing.

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I am not an accident reconstruction specialist but have seen plenty of car accidents. I am amazed and impressed by how much punishment a car would take and have the occupants survive and many times have minor injuries. Kudos to the car designers for having the car absorb the force and keep it off the passengers. My best guess on the OPā€™s accident would be 20 mph

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Here in in south Jersey, there are a number of parking lots with those pull through barriers.

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please join us in the real world :wink:

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A 5 MPH crash is barely going to warp the plastic which for the most part would pop back into shape within seconds.

That car suffered frame damage, has been declared a total loss, and a 5 MPH impact is not going to cause that.

And who in the world drives anywhere at 5 MPH except over a large speed bump?

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Sometimes 5 mph would be fast:

Edit - I just noticed, part of this was shot in Dallas, on the LBJ freeway not far from meā€¦

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Got a point there. I forgot about a Burlington Northern railroad crossing I go across in a small town about 10 miles from here. They used to keep that crossing up; working on it all the time.
About 3 years ago they disappeared and have not touched it since.
Crossing it now at 5 MPH will toss someone out of their seat. Even farmers in 1 tons will creep over it.

Even worse is a 4 lane highway which merges to 2 lanes. At the merger and on both lanes going south the road surface is like rumble strips on steroids. No matter the speed thereā€™s a 150 yards of bouncing one out of their seat.
Itā€™s been like that for 50 years and finally they are redoing 10 miles of roadway; ripping up asphalt, cement, and all. Unfortunately, theyā€™re doing the north lanes first and completion date will probably be midway through this millenium.

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Office Space is one of my favorite movies :smiley:

Thereā€™s just so many memorable scenes in that movie . . .

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25+ years ago at work some woman who worked in another department parked her right inches from my car door. I could NOT get in. She didnā€™t register the car with security (which is company policy) so we couldnā€™t call her to more her car. Security called a tow truck. She left work as they were towing it away.

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Heheā€¦
15+ years back I used to work in a place where all parking spots were reserved for individual tenants and some guy from the company next door was parking his BMW getting a foot or so into our parking spotā€¦
Leaving friendly messages under the windshield wiper was getting me nowhereā€¦
Iā€™ve just traded my shiny ever-breaking Focus for the old 10-years old Subaru, bought it essentially for pocket changeā€¦ and I parked it deliberately close to his shiny BMW, leaving 1-2 inches of space to his driver door :slight_smile:
That seem to get the message delivered, as he did not do that ā€œking of the mountainā€ thing anymore.
I came to the security cameras the next day to entertain myself and my coworkers with a nice 5-minutes clip of how he discovered the news and finally get out of that spot.
We also noted on the camera what as he was leaving, one of his tires was completely flat, but it was none of my making, it was sheer karma :slight_smile:

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