Car Accidents From 50's and 60's
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- Car Accidents From 1950's and 1960's.
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As a retired mechanic after fifty years in the business I can truthfully say "thank goodness they don't make them like they used to!". The steering wheel and steel dash boards killed more people then you might think, and even a minor crash could be fatal. Those strong bumpers had no give and passed the shock directly into the passenger compartment, and sometimes the engine and transmission wound up in the front seat. The worse crash I ever cleaned up was after a Corvette left the road and crashed into a woods. The engine/trans was the biggest piece, but the driver and his girl friend were also in small pieces. Every time I drive past that woods I think sadly of that accident and how much of those two people we never found.
I hear you. Those "fabulous" 50's cars were rolling hard and pointy death traps. Non-collapsible solid steering columns, hard metal all around the passenger compartment, a lot of pointy "stylish" accents, and no seatbelts. Yikes!
Was it just a single car accident, with the Corvette? DUI perhaps? What year was that?
1966 yes he was drunk and he bet the bartender he could make it to the next bar in five minutes. He obviously lost control and missed the curve. The girl's parents sued his family and won 100k in compensation. @@Sheriff_GrimLaw
I grew up in the eighties and there is a lot of nostalgia for cars from that era now. You see guys on RUclips welding and patching them up to relive their youth. But I always think what if you had a big accident in that car . Cars evolve for a reason and safety is just one of them.
Yeah, and let's not forget the supposed "safety" advantage of full-frame designs. On a modern unibody car, the entire structure is designed to share the load in an impact---back then it was just the two front frame rails, because the rest of the body was non-structural
Look how many heads hit the inside of the windshield. I'm 59 and I still remember up until my late teens and early 20's we still didn't wear seatbelts. I can't even image it now, it feels absolutely strange not to wear one.
'Back then... YOU WERE THE CRUMPLE ZONE!
Anybody noticed the 1950s pickup truck with a 1990's wheels on it
Or the guys smoking a joint behind the Volvo
Yes
I thought the same but different : wow those wheels are old !
I noticed that too
1:38 so weird
Nice, liked the music to.
Did spot one new pic, old chevy pick-up had modern truck wheels on it..
The beetle at 1:52, even the backseat passengers would have been annihalated 😱
Its amazing how many vehicles back then had BALD tires !!! 🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗🚙🚙🚙🚙🚙🚓🚓🚓🚓
Every time I get into my '61 Dodge, I remember that I am the crumple zone.
Yes, and your Lungs are the Air Bags.
My 62 Plymouth is not as heavy as our Dodge, but I feel the new cars are my crumple zone, for I have more steel than thay have plastic.
@@paulbroxon4626 don't kid yourself...your '62 Plymouth is a death trap, and your chances of surviving are much better in something newer than in old junk, hands down. Did you watch this video? Whether you did or not, search for the one where they did a crash test comparing an '09 Malibu to a '59 Bel Air. That sould be all the proof you need that big old cars being safer is a myth.
@@weirdkindofsexsymbol
Well...to be FAIR-that 1959 car had the engine removed for the crash test. It was also probably quite rusted (which, given that cars had Poor-or NO-rustproofing back then-is a problem unto itself. Rust has Zero structural strength.) There were also no seat belts-let alone airbags.
An Important point, however, is that there were no crumple zones, either. The "thick steel is safe" paradigm is a Myth.
@@drpoundsign It may be a myth to a point but you wouldn't want a head on with a tank, would you? I'm not seeing any airbags in them but I wouldn't feel unsafe driving one down the street.
I love the 56 Lincoln mark 11 in the background
Oh, you saw it, too! ✌✌For those who want to see that, skip to 4:17.
Technically, however, the Mark II wasn't a Lincoln. It was a Continental, which at the time was a separate division from Lincoln (though they did use Lincoln components for the drivetrain). That said, that is the only thing close to a Lincoln that I saw in these stills. There were a couple Caddies messed up badly, but no Lincolns. Not to hint that they're indestructible, nothing is indestructible; but, Lincolns were regarded as *the* safest cars built in America in that time, with Packards and Studebakers close behind in second and third place.
Thumbnail - Now you know where the term "I wrapped it around a lampost" comes from.
I literally recognized almost every single one of those cars; could remember the names of most st of them. Today’s cars all look the same …
Re the VW @ 1:44 'Halloo... Spark Brothers Plumbing, we're going to be delayed, we sort of had an accident with our van...'
The pole/ tree "ALWAYS WINS!!!!"
Such GREAT MUSIC ! .
I watch these to remind myself to slow the heck down .
-Nate
One has to wonder how many of those accidents were fatal. RIP
A good deal of them were.
No padded dash, no safety glass, no seat belts…
@@rosaamarillo2110 and the occupants were the crumple zone.
@@CaptHollister ‘No padded dash here! Just hose it off and sell it to the next guy!’ … Jay Leno 😂
I’m guessing the VW Bug jammed under the truck bumper was a fatality.
3:48 "Just stay put, Henry...ah don't see no gas leakin'....."
Even by the 1970s, car safely and improved massively.
Aaaaahhhh, the fabulous 50's, when YOU were the crumple zone. Those cars may have looked great, but they were extremely unsafe. I could list all the safety design issues with them, but you already know them.
1:37 early 50s Chevy truck but that left rear wheel says that wreck is not from the 50s or the 60s.
That's what I was thinking as well!
I was just scanning the comments to see if anyone else caught that.
Yup, the seats with headrests say later too.
Eso pensé
it also amazes me how many bystanders are standing right in the crash scene and the cops do not control the area like they do now and how many bystanders are helping the cops pull people out of cars
We have become more selfish as a species.
These cars all look so big and helpless...
I recall my uncle telling me his chrome-bumper yank tank was "solid" and not "tinny" like modern cars. But look how those things buckled in a crash.
Accidents were brutal back then, you were the crumple zone!
I am always amazed by the number of cars that manage to hit a pole or tree dead centre when there is a huge gap either side of it.
The tree/pole sometimes loses.... the car ALWAYS loses.
Observation bias. You will never see pictures of the cars that missed the pole.
Target fixation.
All drunk drivers
And there were no cell phones back then so they must have been doing something really stupid and not watching where they were going.
@ 0:12 ... Good Lord, they wrecked ECTO 1.
السيارات القديمه عباره عن دبابه لا تتحطم بسهوله ولكن الركاب سوف يموتون او اصابات شديده
الان اصبح العكس السيارات تتحطم بسهوله بالمقابل الركاب في أمان وهذا هو الأهم بشرط التقيد بالسرعه و ربط الحزام الامان
1:40 This picture seems to be from the 80s-90s considering the rear rim of this pick up. 😄
1:46 never thought those vws could ever gain enough speed to do that much damage!
It may have combined speed, a head-on.
That head-on with the commercial truck couldn't have Ended Well.
Yes, you're right. by the way, it was in Europe
That driver at 0.48 min really nailed the tree 🌲
OUCH ! that VW bus at .23 is about $40-60,000 today... mines safe in the garage, all original !
Don't get in an accident!
Also, the split-window bug shown. Very collectable today
super!
Sad to think that even the fender-benders were often fatal back then.
yep! you can see in many of these photos where one or both people in front seat hit and broke the windshield , thats never a good thing.all of the impact was transferred to the occupants rather than being absorbed by the body of the car as they do now. so todays accidents often look very severe but people walk away unscathed, a lot of these old accidents may just the hood and fender are damaged but the driver was dead.
Of course they were.... no seat belts, rigid steering columns- the car stopped, but you didn't !! If you hit something in one of them hard enough to seriously bend it, you usually got HURT.
@@ervinthompson6598
I love 1969 Mustangs.
I Sat in one once.
Scared the hell out of me.
Even more sad is that most if not all of those accidents would be walk away survivable in decent cars today.
Them old poles must have been made from some strong magnets.
Driving is so much saver now.
I am from a small country in Europe. Here is an interesting statistic:
In 1972 there were about 2.5 Mio cars and 2948 dead people from car/truck accidents.
Nowadays there are 7 Mio cars and just 370 dead people from car/truck accidents. 3 times the (faster) cars and just 1/10 dead people.
Late 60’s-70’s American cars were also worlds safer than the deathtrap pieces of shit being sold in Europe at the time. The stats vary from country to country depending on safety standards that were in place at the time.
Those cars hate poles!!!!
1:40... Busted! That 50s truck has a cushy seat with headrests and that rear wheel is from an 80s Chevy Blazer. Modern incident turned black and white to appear vintage.
It still would have bent the same way back in the day though.
Power poles jumped in front of cars even back then!
The advent of cats eyes , neon lights, air cushioned dashboards and tech generally has helped modern transport masses
almost all cars have completely collapsed in an accident... and then without a seatbelt; Good night...
2:47 . . . . . and How do you Rear End a Train ?
Some places the trains still run on streets , though they would allow it to be stopped there . Depending on several things , Dark with poor headlights , no reflectors or lights driver tired or drunk never saw the stopped train would be my guess for what happened
There were more auto fatalities in 1935 than there are today despite having exponentially more cars on the road today.
remember this video when you're driving on the highway and you "have to be first!" because even though there's a hundred cars in front of you, you know the fastest way
When you see this - Remember no seat belt. And no air bag - None of the safety we have today
TRUE. Even with those, however-the lack of a crumple zone was a Huge Problem.
Something to remember before complaining about government interference and the nanny state
@@CaptHollister Something also to think about when you see those nostalgia RUclips videos with people in the comments saying “things were so much better in the past.”
0:10 Ghostbusters?
no seat belts or head rests these days either.
That Chevy truck could really time travel cause, that rear wheel looks like mid 80's thru the 90's???
I saw that too
@1:12 Poor little bug! It was definitely the human that splattered on the windshield this time!😱
The truck probably went back to work afterwards.
Split window VW was toast
Those big old 50s cars are as soft as a cheese sandwich
Buddy of mine had a 52 Chevy coup for a while. It was cool but was like riding in a soup can that had a one star motel mattress for a seat cushion
1:52 ...no words
I remember as a kid during the 50's and 60's checking out all the wrecked cars looking for dried blood and pieces of human flesh. The wreckers would tow them into a yard that wasn't gated so we could get up close.
Charming little ghoul, weren't you?
Halloween will be here soon, buckwheat.
@@653j521 The crows and rats lap that stuff UP before you know it.
@@653j521 probably became a mortician. Lol
@@racingmach1 Yes. He works in LA. Their motto is “You Stab ‘Em, We Slab Em.”
Muy pocos sobrevivieron....
This shows that people who say they don’t build them like they used to….should be glad they don’t..
In 1959 I walked up the road from our house where a motorcycle had pulled out on the road into the path of a car that had just started passing a car and they hit head-on . The motorcycle rider was thrown in the air and then as he was falling back down he landed head first on the roof of the car cracking his skull . The fire department was jus starting to hose his brain matter off the car and also putting the fire out that had started when gas leaked on the hot exhaust of the motorcycle . It was a site I don't ever care to see again . I was 10 years old at the time , something I'll never forget .
Yeah, something like that will scar you for life.
And it’s repeated almost daily still. Most of the bike riders I’ve seen this year are riding like absolute morons! And they crash and die on a regular basis. Darwin theory at work! One group passed a line of cars and rode right between my truck and the cars they were passing. I was travelling the opposite direction on a two lane highway! Unbelievable!
The National Enquirer during the 50s & 60s had quite a few gore photos back then, and quite often you got the close-ups. It of course changed later to celebrity chasing.
@@tomrogers9467 Those were probably all young bold bikers.
I was traumatized just having the car I was riding in hit a lose dog. Then traumatized again when I drunk ran into the car I was riding in. The crash was so loud.
Theres literally 2mm of steel between your legs and the on coming obstacles in a vw bus.
Old vw’s are fucking deathtrap piles of shit even compared to American cars back then.
The Oval Split, wow! What a beautiful VW, but sad imagining that the driver didn’t survive.
From people's car to people's coffin.
@@marchellochiovelli7259Agreed. One of THE ugliest cars in history. I've never understood their appeal.
@@texasaggieproud nahh you crazy, käfers are very cute, and they just have that something in them.
@@texasaggieproud Join everyone in celebrating a car that wasn't perfect - but has a huge following. An Icon and Work of Art.
@@texasaggieproud Well it was "made in Germany".
💯🙋⭐ nice
1:15 that Beetle. omg even roof panel is dented at window frame. They can't have survived that.
The burnt school bus was an 1988 accident in Ohio that killed a lot of people
I thought so too. I-71 just north of Cincy.
Happened on I71 in Carrollton Kentucky about halfway between Louisville and Cincinnati May 14 1988
That was the 1988 bus crash that killed 27 people 24 children & 3 adults. That was one of the worst
If I’m not mistaken that incident resulted in a big push to diesel-ize the school bus fleets for safety
Heavy Metals - when a car was your character in motion. Modern cars are so dull. The thrill is gone. Lots of accidents today are much worse than these, despite all the 'safety" devices. Drivers are crap.
Funny to see police/fire doing there job with bystandres just a few feet away (gawkers).
Schade um die schönen alten Fahrzeugen
That's what happens when you shop at the Pennywise Food Mart, you get Punk in Drublic and wind up riping up a bunch of Fenders.
"Punk in Drublic" Ha-haa. Good one :)
I don't know which was worse. The pictures.or the accompanying noise.
It always amazes me when people hit things like trees and light poles in an accident. These are very noticeable objects....
In Richmond, VA there was a gas station lot called Timberlake Brothers. They would have wrecked cars. Some of them were tough to view for the onlookers..
1:25 that was in 1988 in Kentucky When a drink driver went the wrong way on I 71 hitting a church bus head on fuel leaking from the bus ran down to the burning pick up the drunk was driving the resulting fire killed two dozen teens .
Yeah that sounds about right. I used to take an old 70s Ford bus like that to school in late 80s. It broke down like twice a month 😂
1:23
This is the bus were many people died in the aftermath of the crash.
Yes Carrollton Ky 1989 I believe
Good vid. Some of these accidents look horrific.
AH the good old days, when you were the crumple zone...
seeing the '56 convertible smashed will haunt me for a long time
The images show the lack of planning in absorbing the blow
Anybody remember those old Cadillac ambulances?
Yes ,me 😂
Born 51
Yes, I was born in the early 60’s and we lived near the hospital. Those ambulance ran up and down Johnson street. I also remember when paramedics first started and they were not just ambulance men, anymore. My cousin became a paramedic, as well as one of my high school chums. By the time she became a paramedic, it was in the early 80’s, though.
As late as 1962 or so, hearses did double-duty as ambulances. It was odd to see a hearse speeding down the street, with the siren on.
At least you can still tell what make these wrecks are. Modern cars, even though a lot safer, you can't tell what make thay are in a crash. Even in a crash the old cars still had style.
I've been saying that for years! Todays cars all look the same!!
You can't tell what make they are even when they're fresh off the assembly line (or is that, fresh off a freighter at the dock?).
I'm sure that's a great consolation to the families of those who died in those stylish cars.
@@CaptHollister You are so right about your comment. Even I wondered what happen to those people. At lot of those accidents are from my timeline. I too was in a accident in 68, in a 66 Chey Caprice classic station wagon with camper. And believe me it makes these accidents look like fender benders. And I still have the pictures to prove it! And I am still suffering from it to this day! Even in the wreck I had I can still tell the make and model, but the camper completely demolished. It was shoved clear up to or should I say on top of my wagon. So I am not glamorizing these wrecks just because I can tell what make thay are. Thanks for your comment. It was a good one.
@@thomasschwarting5108maybe its just german cars
It looks like a lot of hippies crashed.
They're not built like they used to be. THANK THE GODS BOTH THE OLD AND THE NEW!!
It's apparent many of these accidents were fatal. I watch a lot of stupid driver videos and some of them have the most horrific appearing crashes, then it's reported there were no serious injuries. Say what you will about modern cars but our safety systems have come a LONG way. I've had cars that didn't even come with seat belts. My newest car has belts, more air bags than I can count, acceleration and braking that NO car of the 50's or 60's could match, crumple zones, and in a pinch it will even try to steer out of harm's' way by itself!
As much as I love my Studebakers and my Jeep XJ they don't make them like they used to, and in a lot of ways that's a very good thing.
I'm amazed at how many poles and trees jump out in front of cars. My uncle survived rolling a 55 Chevy convertible and getting hit head on by a drunk driver in his 74 Chevy truck.
My uncle didn't survive rolling his convertible on a gravel road in the 1950s. He was thrown out. The woman with him spent months in the hospital but lived.
The person in the split window Volkswagen didn’t make it for sure
unsafe at any speed.
Hot Kokk
Them gone hard towards the pole and also those trees
Rappmusic sings it much bro
No belts, no air bags! 😎👍
At 1:55 that beetle folded and opened up like a sardine tin
Now that's some wild background music ! Wonder who that band is/was?
The Last Ones by Jahzzar
@@autoresto111Thanx!
What did they do without Hurst tools!?
They used crow bars and people died while the police, ambulance men and tow truck drivers tried to get them out. A car cab be wrapped around a victim’s legs “like a steal trap” as was stated in one of those old Ohio state driver’s ed scare films from the early 60’s.
So upsetting watching this. Those lovely cars .
what about those lovely people, hurt or killed in those accidents? That's more upsetting to me, and how poorly the cars were engineered.
@@JakobusVdL Very true and well said. I was thinking the same thing as you.
4.47⚰️
Красивые автомобили производили в те времена. 😢😢😢
いつの時代も【電柱君】は強い
ＤＱＮ撲滅のエースで今まで輝かしい戦績を誇ってきた。設置数、強さ、実績とも文句なし。
Notice in some of these pictures where the windshield has spots where the glass is broken?
Now just imagine what caused it: the head of the driver or a passenger smacking into the glass.
Whenever I see one on the drivers side can't help but think about the non collapsible steering wheel in front of them.
@@jameswilson313
Reminds me of this Dragnet episode...
ruclips.net/video/ZgF_6eSOEY0/видео.html
hi and good morning Auto Resto I found this video to be absolutely smashing lol :-D ok the truth shocking and a little disturbing yes i've seen some gruesome wrecks like these in real life back in the 60's on up those poor people and probably some of them or more we're drinking and driving when they smashed up men and woman stopping at a bar after getting off work on the way home was the normal back then most people drank and smoked and even what of these car's had seat belts most people back then refused to wear seat belts most people we're like that in the 60's in to the 1970's till the seat belt law's and enough seat belt tickets got rote by the cops yes I do remember the early 60's on up well have great day and a great week Auto Resto :-)
Now you can take a deep breath.
Old cars are safer, they said😂
The car that's hood turned into a guillotine shows you gotta replace a bad hood with a good quality replacement that crumples right,even though that hood may have been the original back in the day.
In early March 2012 that I was in a car accident in a 2005 Ford Focus ZX5. My little car did rolled over. It was the impact of the other car that caused it and from that accident that I gotten a broken left ankle. I don’t mind the bruises from it. Luckily that I had my seatbelt on during it. This one guy that I used to know was in a bad car accident and did wore his seatbelt. He was in a coma for 2 weeks. He was fine when he told me. Even another guy that I used to know was in a fatal car accident. He was driving home when it happened. His car ripped off from the wheels and he died instantly. All of his bones break in the accident. I saw all of the flashing lights from the squad cars. My mother was driving towards my father’s job.
Road. Surfaces vary over years, glad to hear you recovered fully, fiestas width and abilities to stay on dangerous bends worried me for years
A high proprtion of these accidents must have been fatal, without virtually any safety systems
And steel dashboards.
Those sharp, pointy decorative features inside the cabin did not help either.
@@jameswilson313And solid, non-collapsible steering columns. Ouch!
01:44 Three Volkswagen in the Netherlands ?
Klopt
Right
Greetings from the Netherlands
@@petergerritgroen3157 Greetings from Germany
Never ceases to amaze, but how many of the cars had bald tires?
Accidents today are attention blips
People talk about how tough and long lived these cars and trucks were let me tell you the truth if you got 30 ,50 thousands miles out of one without major overhauls you were dam lucky and if you hit something hard you knew it cause the whole car was thrashed I know I used to drive them grew up in the 1960s.