By adamg on Sun., 1/1/2023 - 12:06 pm 
Nancy spotted this bad crash in Washington Square in Brookline shortly before 11 a.m.
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This Should Not Be Possible
By SomervilleSteve
Sun, 01/01/2023 - 10:01pm
We must urgently rebuild our urban streets to make it impossible for any vehicle to travel fast enough to flip itself over. I’m 100% serious.
"any vehicle"
By Wiffleball
Sun, 01/01/2023 - 10:38pm
You've been warned, unicycle riders.
I’m glad to see the
By Tipsdown
Mon, 01/02/2023 - 7:24am
I’m glad to see the delusional comments starting the new year off with a bang.
Thanks
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 01/02/2023 - 9:23am
Thanks for adding a couple of bottle rockets to the display.
Speed?
By Sock_Puppet
Mon, 01/02/2023 - 7:55am
Or T-boned?
The whole side of that car is pushed in. It didn't do that by rolling itself.
Talk to the automakers
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 01/02/2023 - 9:31am
Any moving vehicle can flip over at any speed if it just gets some rotation going.
Even turtles get flipped over sometimes.
Not sure if this car is really going "10 mph" but it certainly isn't doing more than 20 and is travelling at a very reasonable speed for the conditions.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2CUQc9SgIU&t=10s[...
Important note: jersey barriers were designed to minimize damage, but also can induce roll over rather than allow a vehicle to plow into oncoming traffic at high speeds.
28 degree approach angle
By Sock_Puppet
Mon, 01/02/2023 - 11:02am
That ugly chin plus a handful of other factors makes the Supermaket Utility Vehicle "capable of off-road use," thus an "off-road vehicle" rather than a "passenger vehicle." That gives it a 10MPG mulligan on CAFE, which is why automakers make all those SUVs and crossovers look so boaty, and also makes them more prone to tip over.
Again, I don't think the Washington Square vehicle rolled from speed - it looks to me more like it was T-boned. But if you want to know why most big American vehicles can easily roll over in normal use, it's because that 28 degree approach angle on the front makes them climb over small obstacles, and keep going up, instead of bumping into them horizontally and stopping, like a typical passenger car.
It's not the roads, it's the
By Don't Panic
Mon, 01/02/2023 - 11:26pm
[b]This Should Not Be Possible[/b]
By SomervilleSteve on Sun, 01/01/2023 - 10:01pm.
[i]We must urgently rebuild our urban streets to make it impossible for any vehicle to travel fast enough to flip itself over. I’m 100% serious.[/i]
It's not the roads, it's the vehicles. This kind of thing hardly ever happened in the 1960s, 1970s, and the 1980s. Come the 1990s and Minivans are introduced, followed rather quickly by SUVs. These things may look nice and futuristic but design-wise, they are an accident waiting to happen at any speed.
History repeats itself, then
By adamg
Mon, 01/02/2023 - 11:53pm
Cars (and trains and planes) used to turn turtle all the time back in the day.
Then along came...
By Don't Panic
Tue, 01/03/2023 - 11:46pm
Ralph Nader with "Unsafe at any Speed". Suddenly for a few decades safety came first. Unless you count the Pinto.
Cars flipping over: it's not the roads or vehicles, but people.
By mplo
Tue, 01/03/2023 - 6:12pm
When cars and/or other vehicles are involved in roll-over incidents, more otten than not, it's the driver(s) who are at fault. People drive too fast for existing conditions (which is how most vehicular accidents occur, anyhow.), and sometimes it's a combination of the driver, and/or the use of an extremely small, light vehicle that is more prone to rolling over when the conditions (i.e. curves, extreme wind, etc.),
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