[Chetan_Rao]

Originally Posted by Hickstead

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Only an image of the scattered MID is available. Does this belong to older generations Honda City ?
With difficulty, I am able to get the car image as attached.

Originally Posted by IshaanIan

Unlikely the tacho implies it was a diesel

Not a Honda. A Hyundai Xcent. Diesel like Ishaan mentions, redline marked lower.

[aditya.86]

Originally Posted by Hickstead

Four engineering students were killed in a fatal accident occured in the outskirts of Hyderabad on tuesday late night. There were no proper images of the ill fated vehicle available in any of the news papers. In one news paper, it was mentioned as a Honda Sedan. I am not sure whether it is true of not.

Only an image of the scattered MID is available. Does this belong to older generations Honda City ?
With difficulty, I am able to get the car image as attached.

Seems to be an Xcent Crdi/Grande i10 Crdi.

[anumod]

Originally Posted by Hickstead

With difficulty, I am able to get the car image as attached.

It is an Xcent .I got to know the registration number and cross validated it. Very sad to see people drive at a speed that they and car are not comfortable with.

[haldar_siliguri]

Originally Posted by aditya.86

Seems to be an Xcent Crdi/Grande i10 Crdi.

Yea looks like so. A crdi that was probably being driven towards the upper limits of its powertrain.

[SamitMukherjee]

Originally Posted by Hickstead

Four engineering students were killed in a fatal accident occured in the outskirts of Hyderabad on tuesday late night. There were no proper images of the ill fated vehicle available in any of the news papers. In one news paper, it was mentioned as a Honda Sedan. I am not sure whether it is true of not.

Only an image of the scattered MID is available. Does this belong to older generations Honda City ?
With difficulty, I am able to get the car image as attached.

Looks like Hyundai Xcent's MID. Even the car looks like an Xcent. Looking at the stuck needle position of the speedometer, it seems like the car was driven at some serious speeds.

[theMandarin]

Originally Posted by haldar_siliguri

Yea looks like so. A crdi that was probably being driven towards the upper limits of its powertrain.

Originally Posted by SamitMukherjee

Looking at the stuck needle position of the speedometer, it seems like the car was driven at some serious speeds.

In my opinion, the stuck needle does not necessarily indicate the vehicle speed at the time of impact. It could have been impacted by the force of impact during the collision.

[Thad E Ginathom]

The speed at 140, the tacho touching red at 5000. If the instruments are anything like right, they were literally screaming along.

[Rshrey22]

There is no shield over the meters, might be possible the photographer moved the needles by hand for a more shocking picture.

[VKumar]

Originally Posted by Rshrey22

There is no shield over the meters, might be possible the photographer moved the needles by hand for a more shocking picture.

But the Grand i10 (or Xcent) diesel actually does around 145 kph at 5000 rpm itself in fourth gear. There is a possibility that these guys were trying to race against some other vehicle and hence were pushing the car to limits - and finally lost if, forever.

[audioholic]

Originally Posted by Rshrey22

There is no shield over the meters, might be possible the photographer moved the needles by hand for a more shocking picture.

Not very easy to move the needles since they are driven by stepper motors which kind of lock up when not powered. The needle will break if its messed with. Thats the reason the meter needles dont return to zero position if they are suddenly deprived of power from the battery. But what surprises me is how the engine crossed it's redline. I thought it would have been limited to not exceed the redline. Or I may be wrong since to be frank I havent revved my cars so high.

[for_cars1]

Originally Posted by anumod

Very sad to see people drive at a speed that they and car are not comfortable with.

The problem is with the enormous stopping distance at these high speeds.
You'll often hear people say, 'I did 140, 150kmph'. Most cars can reach those speeds but the problem is with stopping the car when required.

Hope people realize that 140kmph, it takes about 350 metres or more than a thousand feet to bring a car to a halt after reacting and applying brakes.

In other words, at 140kmph, if any obstacle(human, animal, vehicle) comes in the path of the car at a distance of 350 metres or lesser, the car will simply not stop without hitting the obstacle even if the brakes are applied to the max. Its not about skills but just physics at work. The driver could swerve to avoid hitting, but thats again risking it.

At 140kmph, the driver would have to look far ahead beyond a 1000 feet to see if anything is in its path, this is humanly not possible which is why most countries have a top/national road speed limit of a 110 or 120kmph.

At 80kmph, the stopping distance is much lower at about a 100 metres or 300 feet needed to come to a stop.

[JoseVijay]

Originally Posted by Hickstead

Four engineering students were killed in a fatal accident occured in the outskirts of Hyderabad on tuesday late night.

The preliminary investigations indicate a case of Drunken driving after a prolonged party at one of the private resorts.

[haldar_siliguri]

Originally Posted by for_cars1

At 140kmph, the driver would have to look far ahead beyond a 1000 feet to see if anything is in its path, this is humanly not possible which is why most countries have a top/national road speed limit of a 110 or 120kmph.

Totally agree that most people lose their perspective when driving at speeds of 120 and above.

Also, the consequential adrenaline rush (totally a normal bodily adaptation to that situation) clouds judgement and impairs reaction times in such ways that people who aren't well versed with such speeds, either underestimate or overestimate what to do next when an obstacle appears, leading to gruesome consequences.

[deepakdsk]

Chennai Villivakkam DUI Accident

2 people, 1 seriously injured

Source (in Tamil): https://www.nakkheeran.in/24-by-7-ne...people-chennai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUNcUB8bwjU

[arun1100]

Clash of the Germans. Both the cars, both the airbags were deployed.