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Flipping over the New Year in Brookline

Flipped SUV in Brookline's Washington Square

Nancy spotted this bad crash in Washington Square in Brookline shortly before 11 a.m.

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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.

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You've been warned, unicycle riders.

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I’m glad to see the delusional comments starting the new year off with a bang.

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Thanks for adding a couple of bottle rockets to the display.

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Or T-boned?

The whole side of that car is pushed in. It didn't do that by rolling itself.

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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.

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.

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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.

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This Should Not Be Possible
By SomervilleSteve on 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.

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.

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Cars (and trains and planes) used to turn turtle all the time back in the day.

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Ralph Nader with "Unsafe at any Speed". Suddenly for a few decades safety came first. Unless you count the Pinto.

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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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