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Impact resistance

A British woman discovered that her sturdy little Toyota Yaris was not quite sturdy enough to cope with an impact from a large boulder. The woman had parked her car by the roadside and returned to find it squashed flat under the weight of the 5tonne lump of rock, which had fallen from a quarry industry vehicle as it drove past.
February 22, 2012 Read time: 1 min
A British woman discovered that her sturdy little Toyota Yaris was not quite sturdy enough to cope with an impact from a large boulder. The woman had parked her car by the roadside and returned to find it squashed flat under the weight of the 5tonne lump of rock, which had fallen from a quarry industry vehicle as it drove past. The boulder was so large that it initially proved too heavy for the truck loader crane brought in to remove it. When she returned from her shopping trip to discover her vehicle had been squashed as easily as a soft drink can by the lump of rock, the woman was comparatively unperturbed by the incident and explained that she has had an eventful life.

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