Speed to flip a car ?

[Mr-White]

Came back from the gym yesterday to find my route back to work blocked due to a women flipping her car. It's a straight 0.3 mile, 40mph dual carriageway, I couldn't see a second car and the car looked to be an A3 size. Still can't work out how she managed it

MW

 

[grudas]

curbs probably, it will surely depend on the car.. vans/trucks/4x4's are easier to flip due to extra height.. something like an a3 would need to hit something to flip.

 

[tom_e]

43.43176mph and a cute bunny in the middle of the road.

 

[hughtrimble]

There was a viral video a few years back where someone trying to get out of a car park managed to flip their car at what must have been very low speed. As Grudas said, curb height, angle of wheels, centre of balance, wheel drive etc. would all contribute.

 

[Glanza]

Swerved to dodge something and flipped?

 

[Skeeter]

I'm pretty certain that using the right curb and steering input you could flip a car at about 5mph.

 

[Orionaut]

Think about it mathematically

Say car weighs 1200Kg

Say 1.8M wide

Say C of G 0.75M high.

(All just ball park averages)

To flip car one needs to raise C of G from 0.75 to 0.9M

Hmmn.

MGH

That is only 1800J

You can mess with the figures but the answer wont change much.

It is actually frighteningly easy to flip a car!

 

[Mr Badger]

Mixing cross ply and radials.

 

[theone8181]

Like the a class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um-XlKerWvA

 

[nutcase]

I'm pretty certain that using the right curb and steering input you could flip a car at about 5mph.

This

 

[Cyanide]

Maybe she'd tried to reverse park?

 

[Deleted member 66701]

40 mph is easily enough:-


Go to 50s.

 

[bledd]

"When this baby hits 88 mph, you're going to see some serious ####!"

88 mph

 

[ttaskmaster]

Someone leaves something in road and/or the tyre blows out, driver loses control, hits curb, car flips, OP posts...
I don't really drive much - Do cars tend to skid out on big diesel spills?

 

[Jono]

Depends what she hit

 

[Usher]

Perhaps there was a handbag shop visible through the trees

 

[Lopéz]

It's quite easy to flip a car if the angle/leverage is right. A mate of mine rolled a car after clipping the apex of a hairpin junction at something like 10mph.

Watch a few Russian dash cam crash compilations and you'll see loads of cars being flipped at reasonably low speeds.

 

[spookywillow]

A Woman flipped her car on an island just by my house a few weeks ago, God knows how she managed it

 

[JustBen]

i flipped my civic and wasnt doing break neck speeds. just clipped the front against a kerb next thing i knew i was airborn

 

[Nasher]

My old boss managed to flip a hire car in the office carpark while trying to do J turns

It was some crappy thing that looked like a box on skinny wheels. Being quite tall with soft suspension it was never going to stay upright.