How likely are you to survive a car crash into a brick wall without wearing seat belts or having an airbag?

Mr. Smartypants

Crashing into a wall at 30 mph is like falling from the 3rd story of a building. Without seatbelts or airbags you'd probably die. If you did survive it would be just barely.

Bill

anything over 20mph, your chanches of survival are close to zero

Question asker

Pretty low chances of survival there mate.

Don

0.01% survive chance.

Otis

I've hit a solid wall at 30mph. It hurts WITH a seatbelt and airbag but I walked away. Without them, the driver will probably get impaled on the steering wheel. All ribs broken, minimum, probably serious if not fatal internal injuries. The passenger will go through the windscreen, probably get a broken neck as well as horrific facial injuries.

AlCapone

At 5 MPH, you chances are about 100%, at 20 MPH about 80%, at 50 MPH about 50%, and it goes downhill from there.

curtisports2

Depends on the speed. At speeds of 40 MPH and above, the chances of surviving go way, way down. Crashing while using airbags without a safety belt is not much safer than crashing with no belt and no bags. Update: At approximately 75 MPH into a brick wall with no restraints at all, you will create an instant mural of yourself. It won't be pretty.

JORGE N

At 33.333 meters per second you would have a steering wheel for your last meal.

Who

Just seat belts - you are dead virtually instantly - the crash will break your neck, crack several ribs - maybe puncturing lung and heart - and splatter liver airbag - very severe injuries - most likely you will die before anybody can even get to you Both - you might survive - but your life will never be the same again

Peter

For most cases, zero.

Barry

Depends upon the speed at impact.

Anonymous

Why don't you try it and find out.

Anonymous

you’re dead, unless you are someone who is very very lucky, you’re not getting out alive

Jerry S

very unlikely you would survive.

Steven

Anything above 23mph you would die due to interia and the lack of the seatbealt restraining you. Mainly would be the glass windshield that would kill you - the steering wheel is something you can avoid by jerking to the right. Heck best choice is get low so the glass or steering wheel doesn't hit you head on and kill you instantly. Anything under 50mph would be decent enough to survive. But over 80 it's highly unlikely.

Kringer

Faster you go the more painful it will be.

Mj

Dead.

doctormcgoveran

four factors come into play here. the angle of impact!!! this is important at 45 degrees you get 70% of the impact you get at 90 degrees.the speed of the impact, slower is better even a little bit slower is a lot better.Body type the more you look like danny devito and the less you look like uma thurman the better your chances.position in the car..I have wrecked a lot of cars and had not a scratch, if you are going to hit a wall on the front of the car pull yourself forward and get your head chest and knees against the steering wheel and dash.In most cases like this the car collides with something and stops then the passenger collides with the car. If you get against the side of the car in the direction of impact you get to "ride down the energy of the crash with the car."

Bertsta

How fast are you going, what car are you driving and how solid is the wall. A wall that collapses easily can actually absorb the impact. One that doesn't move at all, will kill you. In NCAP testing offset impact tests are carried out at ~30mph? into a solid concrete block. I'm too lazy to look up the speed but it's very low. The reason they don't do it at higher speed is because even with airbags and seat belts, the forces are simply to great. Statistically speaking the greatest advance in reducing road deaths was the introduction of the seat belt, closely followed by airbags, so you'd be a moron not to use them if available, but Darwin has a fix for stoopid.

boy boy

at 120km per hour ..with air bags and seat belts on less than 5% survival rate ...with none ...zero ..i have seen a video of a SMART car hitting a 5 tonne block of concrete at 70mph ...afterwards you could still open ..and shut both doors ...the car is built around a safety cell ...it works very well ....however ..all occupants would die ..no person can survive 70 to zero in a split second ...your own organs will kill you ..crushed

Jay P

Depends on the vehicle and the brick wall. Also, to a certain extent, the person. If the vehicle is heavy enough and the brick wall is thin enough, the vehicle will punch through the wall as opposed to stopping the vehicle. If that is the case, what is behind the wall would greatly determine what happens next. Any sudden deceleration can cause injury or even death. If the vehicle comes to an abrupt stop at 120 km/h, an unbelted person in the vehicle will continue to travel forward at 120 km/h until he/she hits something. If that person is the driver, their chest will strike the steering wheel and the head will likely strike the windshield. At that speed, it's likely fatal, even if the vehicle has a steering wheel airbag.

fuzzy

Single thickness wall with nothing behind it & weak mortar your chances of survival are good. If you are assuming the "brick wall" is a solid immoveable item then it depends on the speed you're travelling at. Any speed over 20 mph you're going t ohospital. Over 40 mph probably the morgue.

Mother Teresa

I've heard that g-forces are a biatche

STEPHEN

*rolls eyes* At 2 mph or 100 mph? It makes a difference.

Galib

yes,it right

Percyqted

If it,s a glancing blow maybe. If it's head on, probably not.