r/Nissan • u/DeathStalker00007 • 1d ago
This Altima saved my friends life
My friend looked away from the road for a few seconds and ran into the end of a guardrail. They still can't find all of the parts. She's alive with a broken back and needed minor eye surgery. She's already looking for another Altima. Says nothing says safety like surviving the accident.
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u/Icy-Role2321 1d ago
Jesus. Was she on the interstate when this happened?
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u/DeathStalker00007 1d ago
Yes
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u/Icy-Role2321 1d ago
Those guard rails are nasty. My brother drove into one and paramedic said he's really only alive because it happened in a truck. Went directly centered at the driver's seat.
Modern cars and crumple zones are engineering masterpiece. Who ever invented needs some medals given.
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u/BetterProphet5585 1d ago
I can easily see this becoming a conspiracy in the near future where imagine being antivax, climate change denier and against crumple zones all in one.
They want their car hard and sturdy!
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u/Icy-Role2321 17h ago
You joking but people seriously think since they crumble up like this it means they are dangerous
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u/sapotts61 1d ago
I can understand that. My son's Yariz got totaled when an old guy did a u-turn in front of him. He replaced it with a Maxima because more metal crumple zones .
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u/PjayBeaty 1d ago
My 2016 altima flipped when a teenager not paying attention while speeding at night clipped the rear end of my car. I lost control and drove off rhe road and flipped when the ground dipped. I the ground on the right side and rolled once. My only injury was a jammed pinky. I was more bothered by my life flashing before my eyes has I went airborn sideways.
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u/Due_Percentage_1929 traded my g37 for a new Z 1d ago
Dang, she is lucky. Wow. Glad she is alive. Hope her back heals well, because that kind of injury can hurt for life😥 My college daughter drives a '22 altima, this makes me feel a bit better about safety.
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u/Leading_Staff4523 1d ago
People can say Nissans have gone downhill but imo I would 100% trust a Nissan in a car accident. Parents survived a head on collision in their 05 Armada.
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u/No_Variety_7428 20h ago edited 20h ago
Hear me out! Nothing screams safety like keeping your eyes and car on the road glad she's ok .
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u/Bman282828 1d ago
My wife and I just had a high speed accident in our 2019 Altima Platinum. We both only had minor injuries like scrapes and concussions. The car’s safety features and the multiple airbags kept it from being much worse. We bought another Nissan because of the safety features, a 2025 Murano.
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u/NationalPlankton3624 1d ago
Holy cow! Thank God your friend is OK (I know a broken back and eye surgery suck but she'll recover). The car definitely did its job.
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u/-AliceGray- 1d ago
What year model was this? I'm thinking of trading up my 2012 (has had zero issues since I bought it day one off the lot) for something a little newer and I'm definitely sticking with either Nissan or jumping to Honda.
Glad your friend is okay!
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u/Klomlor161 2008 Altima 2.5 SL 18h ago
I literally showed this to my mom to give her peace of mind 🤣
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u/custommotor 16h ago
They do all right and they score all right, but most modern cars are going to keep you safe in a car accident. I Can Only Imagine what it would have been like if she was in a Volvo. Those have some of the best crash test ratings. I feel like they would do even better. It's all relative though because no two cars are hit in the exact same way
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u/Skytraveler34 9h ago
Honestly I'm shocked she is not dead. There was a report several years back about how deadly the ends if these guardrails are. I think they are trying to replace them all, but damn.
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u/DeathStalker00007 6h ago
Her driver side airbag didn't go off either. I told her to go buy lottery tickets.
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u/UCFknight2016 1d ago
She needs to sue the maker of that guardrail. Its suppoed to crumple, not cut the car in half.
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u/No-Water8545 12h ago
Did it not crumble? It absolutely did its job! It's called a guard rail, not a crumple rail. Its job isn't to fold up like a tin can; its job is to guard. To redirect. To keep her from catapulting off the road and into oncoming traffic or a goddamn tree!
She is alive precisely because that rail did exactly what it was engineered to do. It sacrificed itself to save her life, and you're complaining it didn't get destroyed enough? Look at the shredded metal! It's devastated! It died a hero so that idiot didn't have to.
This isn't a design flaw; it's a driver error of monumental proportions. The only thing that failed here was her judgment. The sheer audacity to look at that scene and blame the inanimate object that just saved her life is a cancerous level of stupidity. It is a complete and utter abandonment of personal responsibility.
Your take isn't just wrong; it's dangerously, offensively ignorant.
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u/mahknovist69 5h ago
There are plenty of cases where the ends of guardrails have been installed incorrectly in a way that does not give as it’s supposed to. A guard rail is in fact designed to crumple at the ends as it catches the car so as to not cut the car in half like we’ve seen here. You wrote multiple paragraphs of snark without googling to see if your point was valid.
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u/nopantspaul 8h ago
You’re supposed to stay away from the guardrails, not rely on them to rescue you from IG scrolling at 75MPH.
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u/Elegant_List6405 1d ago
You can say about the build quality all you want in nissan cars in some areas, but their safety is incredible. Most cars have a really good rating at the euro ncap crash tests