Car on roof

sevenhills

I drove past a car on its roof in a 20 mph zone yesterday. It was just near the junction and it's a very short street.
What force/speed is required to upturn a car, is it likely that it was doing 30 mph plus?

daveyjp

Not much speed is required to turn a car over,  could be less than 10mph if the angles are right.

https://youtu.be/ljlZqd5qot4

Grumpy_chap

How nice to see that the gold taxi driver, the driver of the car with the video and the yellow Fiesta were all so public spirited and caring for their fellow human being that not one of the three took the time to stop and check on the wellbeing of the passengers in the car that flipped over and / or call emergency services.
The tax actually drove around the flipped car.
The driver with the dashcam did find time to upload the video though- perhaps the title should have been "I'm a Selfish So-and-So but Please Upvote" rather than "Slow Moving Car Somehow Rolls Over"

shiraz99

sevenhills said:

I drove past a car on its roof in a 20 mph zone yesterday. It was just near the junction and it's a very short street.
What force/speed is required to upturn a car, is it likely that it was doing 30 mph plus?

As mentioned it doesn't take much force/speed for a car to end up on it's roof. It may/probably have hit something else and as you suspect it may well have been driven at speed by some car thieves or joyriders.

facade

It's just modern times.

In The Olden Days I used to see cars through hedges and in ditches all the time, now it is cars inexplicably upside down.

Like the OP, I wonder how on Earth they managed it.

(I expect it is something to do with Olden Days Cars having slippery tyres (think mitchelin x) and cart springs so they slid relatively harmlessly off the road at lower speeds than modern cars routinely travel, so when Something Goes Wrong it is more spectacular)

sevenhills

Grumpy_chap said:

How nice to see that the gold taxi driver, the driver of the car with the video and the yellow Fiesta were all so public spirited and caring for their fellow human being that not one of the three took the time to stop and check on the wellbeing of the passengers in the car that flipped over and / or call emergency services.

I thought about stopping too late. I drove around the corner and a car was reversing back. I didn't see what had happened untill I was almost past the car.
All the locals were just stood there looking, hope someone was helping 

DullGreyGuy

sevenhills said:

I drove past a car on its roof in a 20 mph zone yesterday. It was just near the junction and it's a very short street.
What force/speed is required to upturn a car, is it likely that it was doing 30 mph plus?

A while back saw someone lifting a car onto the back of a flatbed, one side of the rigging failed as the car was half over the back and it ended up on its roof... so less than 1mph can do it in the right/wrong circumstances.

elsien

And there was me picturing this. 

Grumpy_chap

sevenhills said:

Grumpy_chap said:

How nice to see that the gold taxi driver, the driver of the car with the video and the yellow Fiesta were all so public spirited and caring for their fellow human being that not one of the three took the time to stop and check on the wellbeing of the passengers in the car that flipped over and / or call emergency services.

I thought about stopping too late. I drove around the corner and a car was reversing back. I didn't see what had happened untill I was almost past the car.
All the locals were just stood there looking, hope someone was helping 

I didn't realise that was your video

Alanp

In that clip it looked like the front wheel of the flipped car caught the rear wheel of the other car, as so often happens in f1, it easily flips over…

ontheroad1970

elsien said:

And there was me picturing this. 

Now that's what I call off street parking