Gen 3 camry rollover crash test into a pole video.

[ghettosled]

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interesting video. the camry debuts at about 1:18 in the video.

[Ninjatito]

Nice find. it appears that the Camry did pretty well. I don't know if the passenger would have survived.... but he stood a chance. it would b interesting to see a gen 4 camry in a roll over test into a pole. as well as several other comparable cars ie. Accord/Maxima w/e if you see the first vehicle they use in the roll over before the camry. the roof buckles on the roll over

[73sport]

yea, thanks for sharing!

That was rough. . . Notice the front wheel still had the rotor attached as went past the camera? What broke to allow that to happen? Can't see, maybe part of the steering knuckle was attached?

Plus you have to wonder if the roof would've crumpled as far w/out the moon roof cut out? Then again, maybe those are even stronger due to added support?? IDK

Now think about all these people with the dog in the front seat/back seat or maybe gallon of milk, case a pepsi, your new Brembo Rotors. . . . yikes!

[KiDGiB]

Thats good to know that the camry does good in a roll over.
It looks like the A-arm is still connected to the strut.

[LynchburgCSI]

Well.... that looks like a fun ride.

[bigbird]

wow...kinda creepy, that almost happened to me on a road trip in my green gen3.5 xle. car wanted to roll after hitting the median but i saved it...ended up with NO damage at all.

[ricamryman]

Yikes!

[ghettosled]

i think ive watched the last 20 seconds of video about 20 times.

[Bankos66]

I feel safer im my camry now.

[diddly]

I was lucky enough to take a ride like that once: (Lucky enough to be here and write about it, that is). I was in my 65 day old Nissan Sentra station wagon, heading down to Florida, from Boston, to find some warmer weather to go camping in, (it was January--a bit nippy for camping in Beantown). I was the passenger, with a friend from Japan driving my car. The last thing I did before closing my eyes for a little nap, was to ask him if he was okay to drive: "Yeah; okay", was the response. It was somewhere between 9 and 10 p.m. and we cruisin' south on I-95, just outside of D.C. I awoke sometime later (hard to tell how much later, but I felt it wasn't very long), to some horrendous noise and a jerky ride. My friend was in the midst of a 3-fishtail manuever, before the tires caught good enough to send us over.....and over and over. (I've always said it rolled three times, but how the hell do I know? I was just bouncin' around inside like that crash test dummy in the video.) I remember the incredibly LOUD noise that seemed to go on forever, before the even more incredibly DEAD silence. (Talk about quiet: it seemed like I'd be able to hear a mosquito fart from the next county over!) The car landed on the driver's side, on dry pavement. After checking with the pilot to make sure he was okay, we proceeded to crawl out the whole that used to be a windshield. The next scene was totally surreal. The cars around us during our little fishtail exhibition, had plenty of time to slow down and stop and watch the drama unfold in front of them --- It must have been something to watch; Kinda like this video, only in real life! Anyway, the surreal part was the view looking back at the stopped cars, across the stretch of highway that we had just 'rolled' on. (I wish we had been rolling on tires, instead of sheetmetal). Illuminated by the solid line of headlights from the cars that had the front row seats, were thousands of little sparkly, twinkling pieces of glass, puncuated only by a random piece of twisted metal, a sleeping bag, a flashlight, camp stove, etc. That's all I could see as I looked back across the 75 yards or so that we had tumbled; everything else was lost in the blinding glare of headlights. Then people started appearing out of the light, (kind of like in Close Encounters of the Third Kind), to see if we were okay.
Like ricamryman said,"Yikes."
I don't want to do that again! Once was enough. I got out of it with a minor broken neck, (compression fracture of the 3rd cervical vertebra, if I remember right) and that was it. I feel lucky now that there was no pole at the end, like there is in this camry video. That pole brings that car to a 'screeching' halt, and after all, it's the decelleration that kills ya!
I hope this story didn't bore you sick. I'll always remember what my friend Ed said to me, after seeing me for the first time after the 'adventure'. On my way out the door he said, "Hey; remember; from now on, keep the shiny side up and the rubber side down!" Luckily; in the 27 years since then; I've done just that: I hope you guys do too!.....diddly.

[LynchburgCSI]

JESUS... space out your post, man.

[diddly]

Sorry man; point taken: I just got a little reminiscent after seeing the 'tumbling dummies': I'll shorten 'em up from now on.

[Chris Crash]

Don't listen to lynch. He's just hatin'.

I enjoyed your story, and am glad to hear you were okay (well...sort of..)

[LynchburgCSI]

Hatin the post, not the playa.

[diddly]

Gee, thanks fellas: I'm feeling loved again! When I wrote it; I was hoping someone would like it; that's why I tried to throw in a few details. You know what the worst part of that deal was?...Taking a bus home Va. The New York City Greyhound Bus Station at 2:30 a.m. with a broken neck, was a nasty and intimidating place to be!