Bronco totaled in head-on collision accident, but you should see the other guy! [Updates From Owner]

[Natai]

Glad everyone is okay.
Sucks to see something like this happen, especially so soon after a reservation holder gets their Bronco. But another example showing how well this vehicle holds up in a crash.

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[aFordOwner]

This is my Bronco. My heart is broken but we all are at home safe. I drove a Jeep for years and absolutely loved it. When Ford introduced this Bronco I couldn’t get to the computer fast enough to order it. I’m a 43 yr old female that’s not really into vehicles and don’t know much about them. My husband and son helped me pick this one out and after a year I finally received it. I was blown away. Everything about this vehicle is amazing. It held up like a beast. I received my Bronco on Dec 17th. Had surgery on Dec 21. I had only driven it a few days before I become a passenger due to my surgery. The surgery I had was serious and personal but to walk away from that crash with only 5 stitches is unheard of. God is good. Ford is tough and I will DEFINITELY be ordering another. I will keep everyone posted on the insurance and how they all turns out so everyone will know if anything like this happens to another Bronco Owner. I pray it doesn’t. Yes we really were going around 50 mph and it was down a mild hill. Not sure on the other car. Last minute swerve from my husband was an excellent decision due to my circumstances still healing from surgery. FORD has impressed me far above than I could have imagined. Man…. I loved my Bronco and can’t wait to get another. Impressive FORD super Impressive and job well done.

Original notes posted by Administrator:
The Bronco's safety made sure the owners of this Bronco walked away to tell the story... hit head-on going 50mph by a Crown Victoria / Grand Marquis driven by an underaged drunk driver. Good thing Bronco driver swerved last second to avoid full complete head-on contact. The Bronco only had 300+ miles on it. The drunk driver received a cut to the head and was at least insured.

That sucks especially when you find out there’s no way they’re gonna total it…

 

[HoosierDaddy]

This is my Bronco. My heart is broken but we all are at home safe. I drove a Jeep for years and absolutely loved it. When Ford introduced this Bronco I couldn’t get to the computer fast enough to order it. I’m a 43 yr old female that’s not really into vehicles and don’t know much about them. My husband and son helped me pick this one out and after a year I finally received it. I was blown away. Everything about this vehicle is amazing. It held up like a beast. I received my Bronco on Dec 17th. Had surgery on Dec 21. I had only driven it a few days before I become a passenger due to my surgery. The surgery I had was serious and personal but to walk away from that crash with only 5 stitches is unheard of. God is good. Ford is tough and I will DEFINITELY be ordering another. I will keep everyone posted on the insurance and how they all turns out so everyone will know if anything like this happens to another Bronco Owner. I pray it doesn’t. Yes we really were going around 50 mph and it was down a mild hill. Not sure on the other car. Last minute swerve from my husband was an excellent decision due to my circumstances still healing from surgery. FORD has impressed me far above than I could have imagined. Man…. I loved my Bronco and can’t wait to get another. Impressive FORD super Impressive and job well done.

Original notes posted by Administrator:
The Bronco's safety made sure the owners of this Bronco walked away to tell the story... hit head-on going 50mph by a Crown Victoria / Grand Marquis driven by an underaged drunk driver. Good thing Bronco driver swerved last second to avoid full complete head-on contact. The Bronco only had 300+ miles on it. The drunk driver received a cut to the head and was at least insured.

I wasn't sure if I should click the happy or sad emoticon!
I'm glad you're OK-ish but really feel bad for you and your Bronco at the same time.
In the end, Ford and the Bronco did their jobs, they protected you.
I think we can all find some comfort in that.

 

[mcdoogs]

That bronco doesn’t look totaled.

Hard to say, if the frame is bent it’s totalled innit?

 

[BOT_ROCKET]

Once the supply of Broncos finally stabilizes, Ford should seriously consider making a vehicle based on the Bronco, but not so off-road-oriented. Maybe lower, more sedan-like. But as similar as possible in the manner of underlying construction.

Such a vehicle could easily be the much-needed successor to the Crown Victoria. I wouldn't even object to them calling it by that name; and a Lincoln version as the new Town Car.

I've been hoping for a sedan on the new Explorer ST platform. A rwd/awd 3.0L Torino Cobra Jet.

 

[Rednek]

Glad everyone faired well(at least physically)makes me glad of my choice of a Bronco to hual me and the missus and grandkids around.

 

[PrepVet]

Once the supply of Broncos finally stabilizes, Ford should seriously consider making a vehicle based on the Bronco, but not so off-road-oriented. Maybe lower, more sedan-like. But as similar as possible in the manner of underlying construction.

Such a vehicle could easily be the much-needed successor to the Crown Victoria. I wouldn't even object to them calling it by that name; and a Lincoln version as the new Town Car.

I am trying to understand where you are coming from on this post.

Why would they use a truck platform to make a car? It would make more sense to use the platform the Maverick is based on.

Where is the market for a sedan in the US? Ford intentionally stopped selling them here because they didn’t sell. Reviving old news is not going to change the publics buying preference.

And for better or worse car makers are going electric so there isn’t much sense is the money expenditure to adapt a truck to a car to use old name plates that are unlikely to sell.

 

[Marauder]

According to the internet, the lookouts on the Titanic spotted the iceberg 37 seconds prior to collision with it. Considering how slow large ships change direction, I'd bet our hero husband had about the same relative amount of time to avoid collision with the ill-fated Crown Vic.

The Titanic sank 120 years ago this coming April... Contemplating the evasive actions taken by the helmsman is sort of pointless at this point.

Yeah, but the tireless examinations of whether Jack could also fit on the door were getting boring, anyways…

 

[Cbiggs]

I do believe the crash bar is between the wheel and the passenger compartment.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

I've been hoping for a sedan on the new Explorer ST platform. A rwd/awd 3.0L Torino Cobra Jet.

Since the 2011 model year, the Explorer has been on a unibody platform. No unibody vehicle can ever be considered a valid successor to the Crown Victoria. The ruggedness and reparability of the Crown Vic is pretty much the point of it, and you just cannot get that on a unibody.

 

[JZZ]

There was some discussion in the 2021 Bronco Crash Test Results - 5/6 Rating by IIHS. thread about offset head-ons being part of the newer IIHS tests after it was found that vehicles that dead well in a solid head-on still often failed in The Real World to protect their passengers in an offset head-on crash.

Of course, those tests are about the vehicle protecting its passengers, rather than itself surviving. In the case of this thread, the Bronco did an amazing job of protecting its passengers, and surely would have in a solid head-on as well. Beyond that, we're down to wondering if the Bronco itself might have better survived a solid head-on. From the OP pictures, it looks to me like the most fatal damage to the Bronco is the way the frame is bent at the forward port corner corner. The frame, I think, might have held up better to a straight hit from the front.

Or you may have bent both front corners of the frame just not as severely and included both front fenders and the hood into the crumbled zone which is design to absorb the energy of the crash to protect the passengers not the vehicle, whatever done with this next thread please

 

[HBTFD]

Hard to say, if the frame is bent it’s totalled innit?

Depends. The scarcity of replacement parts is probably driving the cost up high enough to total it.

 

[JBHillCountry]

I am trying to understand where you are coming from on this post.

Why would they use a truck platform to make a car? It would make more sense to use the platform the Maverick is based on.

Where is the market for a sedan in the US? Ford intentionally stopped selling them here because they didn’t sell. Reviving old news is not going to change the publics buying preference.

And for better or worse car makers are going electric so there isn’t much sense is the money expenditure to adapt a truck to a car to use old name plates that are unlikely to sell.

Not sure he knows either. He is reenacting the Titanic crash in his bathtub at the moment.

 

[BOT_ROCKET]

Since the 2011 model year, the Explorer has been on a unibody platform. No unibody vehicle can ever be considered a valid successor to the Crown Victoria. The ruggedness and reparability of the Crown Vic is pretty much the point of it, and you just cannot get that on a unibody.

I started my law enforcement career in Vics, and I won't argue that they aren't tanks. However, it's very obsolete thinking that they are more durable or repairable due to their body on frame construction. Unibodies are more rigid which makes for better handling, and they can be just as tanky. I have no doubt that the new explorer platform will prove to be just as durable. Based on my own experience with Vics, Tahoes, Taurii, one fwd/awd Explorer, and Chargers, only the Chargers proved to be below the curve in reliability. Everything else was more or less the same from a durability standpoint, regardless of if it is unibody or not. A Vic is totaled in a highway speed rear impact just the same as a Taurus. A Taurus can rip across a plowed corn field just as easily as a Vic (if not more easily if awd). A Lincoln Continental type sedan based on the rwd/awd Explorer platform would be one hell of a beast, which I would buy in a heartbeat, even if it weren't called a Torino.

 

[rgalvinmi]

Not believing it was at 50 MPH. Glad the Bronco driver was unhurt.

If they are BOTH going 50 MPH, that is a 100 MPH contact....

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