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Surveillance video released by the Phoenix Police Department on Wednesday, shows the moment three police officers were struck by a car outside a Quik Trip gas station around 2 AM local time in Phoenix on Tuesday. Phoenix Police Chief Joe Yahner wrote on his Facebook page that a suspect, identified as Marc LaQuon Payne, was "attempting to run them over."
A body camera captures a driver distracted by Pokemon Go crashing into a police patrol car.
A body camera captures a driver distracted by Pokemon Go crashing into a police patrol car.
A 16-year-old boy was almost killed on Monday after he fell asleep while driving to his home in El Cajon in southern California.
With the world’s first public crash test involving two fully electric vehicles, Mercedes-Benz is going above and beyond not only the legal requirements but also those of the ratings industry. Euro NCAP stipulates a frontal impact test using a 1,400 kg trolley with an aluminium honeycomb barrier replicating the front of another vehicle. In accordance with the specifications, the test vehicle and the trolley collide with an overlap and at a speed of 50 km/h. Mercedes-Benz, however, used two real vehicles, an EQA and an EQS SUV, which are significantly heavier at around 2.2 and three tonnes respectively. In addition, both models were faster, each going 56 km/h, which meant that the overall crash energy was considerably higher than required by law. The vehicles’ extensive deformation following the collision may seem alarming to the non-expert. For the Mercedes-Benz engineers, however, it shows that the vehicles were able to effectively absorb the energy of the collision by deforming. As a result, the passenger safety cell of both electric models remained intact and the doors could still be opened. In an emergency, this would make it possible for occupants to exit the vehicle on their own or for first responders and rescue personnel to reach them. The high-voltage system in the EQA and the EQS SUV switched off automatically during the collision.
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