FW: Euro 90q20v Sport Bumpers Pics

[Brett Dikeman]

At 10:15 AM -0600 1/18/02, Livolsi, Stephane wrote:

>There is no way she could have been going more than 5 MPH when she
>rear ended and went under my rear bumper, but it was still a mess.
>Her hood, grill, both fenders with serious damage.


Volvo, in their trucks, has what is called an anti-submarining bar.
It is a very thick and well reinforced bar, very low, that keeps the
truck from going up over the car(and then crushing it.)  The vehicle
hits the bar, stops acting like a wedge.  It was in the press a few
years back, I think because Volvo volunteered their design to other
rig makers, but I'm really not sure, so don't take my word for it.
Used to be they had amusing footage of a volvo dumptruck getting
flipped sideways off a cliff...sounds silly at first, until you
realize that in stripmines(and many construction sites), you're
always driving next to a cliff to get up or down.


Despite the obvious advantages for such a device on the -back- of the
trailer as well, few trailer companies have actually retrofitted such
bars to improve safety in rear-end collisions.  There are notable
exceptions; some companies even paint them bright white and install
red+white reflective stripe tape etc.

-B
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