If you look closely at the pic taken from the rear quarter of the Toyota, it's not quite direct, the hit was offset by maybe 15-20 degrees. This looks to be some part of the U.K., as the cars are RHD.
It looks to me like a classic impact due to a medical problem/nodding off/messing something in the car by the driver of the Toyota, who drifted into the path of the oncoming E-Class. The Mercedes driver had moved over toward the shoulder but ran out of room. Very hard situation for the average driver to overcome. I posted several months back on having seen some EU crash test results, which use different impact standards to our NA ones, and the stats on some of the best selling Japanese cars (including some with very high NHTSA ratings) were disturbing. Exactly this massive failure of parts of the protective shell, most notably the A-pillars and/or footwell areas. Godawful. Mac on 12/19/06 2:55 PM, Zeitgeist at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That's a pretty rare hit; direct frontal assault on each other. Usually one > or the other chicken's out and they end up tagging each other at the > corners. Looks like a Toyota Corolla v. the latest E-class. The MB's > occupants may have walked away under their own power. Don't think the > Toyota faired so well. > > On 12/19/06, Christopher McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> http://benzinsider.com/
