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Originally Posted by Katz6768
The video looks like a police chase gone wrong, hitting the rear of the car to make it loose control and stop works fine with a car, but with an SUV or Minivan can cause the vehicle to roll. It is not so much the driving technique, it is the high centre of gravity of the taller vehicles combined with the high speed. I don't think the driver of the SUV could have done any better.
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It wasn't a police chase at all. Cop cars have their cameras on any time the vehicle is in service. It was just a case of someone trying to change lanes into their blind spot without checking, the vehicle in that lane then swerving out of the way and rolling over once they were sideways off the road.
The fact is that for some reason, people seem to have drummed in to their heads that slamming on the brakes makes you a bad driver and that you have to try and be a Hollywood stunt driver. The overwhelming majority of wrecks can be avoided or mitigated simply by slamming on the brakes, NOT by swerving! If the SUV driver had simply jammed the brake pedal to the floor, he would have been fine.
For the record, one of the more famous videos used in court is of a BMW sedan rolling over on dry pavement during a slalom test on BMW proving grounds by a BMW engineer. Everything was perfectly fine until the vehicle simply hooked a rear wheel and catapulted over. Yes, even cars can be rolled over with surprising ease. High CG vehicles are of course easier to roll, but I would NOT guarantee that if it had been a car, it wouldn't have rolled over just as easily given the same circumstances.
FWIW, at least the driver of the SUV is ok.
http://woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4940480
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WEBBERVILLE -- A Grand Rapids woman is lucky to be alive after being involved in a rollover accident.
It was around 2:30 p.m. Monday when Emily Bowness, 29, was traveling east in the fast lane on I-96 near Webberville in Ingham County. A car in the middle lane swerved into Bowness' lane, as another vehicle was merging onto the highway. Bowness swerved to avoid a collision, which forced her vehicle to roll over several times, before coming to a stop in the ditch.
The whole accident was caught on the dashboard camera of an Oakland County sheriff's deputy's vehicle.
Bowness remarkably walked away from the scene. She was taken to Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, where she was treated for a broken thumb, lacerations on her head, and possibly broken ribs.
Ingham County Sheriff Gene Wriggelsworth says Bowness' seat belt saved her life.
The other driver did not stop, and now authorities want to find that person.
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