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I've been lurking here for a few years as an Odyssey owner, learned many good things reading through the topics here.
Since safety is a primary concern for many parents out there, I thought I'd share our story.
We had a 2010 Odyssey EX-L that we bought used and it was up to ~150K when it protected us from a very serious accident.
We were on our way home from dinner with extended family, it was myself, the wife, our 7 year old son, 5 year old daughter and our small dog. It was dark and lightly raining I was doing 45 mph in the left lane about 1/4 mile from the left turn off the main road into our neighborhood. A 17-year old driver on the other side of the road was speeding (60 in a 45) and aggressively weaving through traffic. He lost control of his late 90's Ford Explorer, jumped the median slamming into the front left corner of our Honda Odyssey. That front impact pushed us into the center lane front of a vehicle in the center lane causing a secondary high speed rear impact, a 3rd impact occurred as the first vehicle slammed into the left rear corner, those 3 collisions occurred in less than 1 second. We had spun to a stop in just under 4 seconds, having spun almost 360 degrees. There were 8 cars involved in total. The teen driver was ejected from his SUV on impact and knocked out, but apparently came to and was able to get up and walk around after a few minutes... 6 people involved were taken via ambulance (4 of them from our car). I had lacerations from head to mid leg from the broken glass from the windshield and side window, minor surgery was required to remove a few chunks of glass a month later. My knees did hit the dash (I'm over 6 ft) and had some internal joint bruising. My wife partially tore her hip labrums, herniated 2 disks, some internal internal knee damage, fractured a tooth and had PTSD. She has ongoing nerve damage/sensation loss in her leg, 2.5 months on crutches. Our two kids were in the second row in forward facing boosters, son had minor internal joint bruising in his hip and PTSD. Daughter had mostly bumps/bruises. Everyone had whiplash which resolved withing a couple months. Dog was surprisingly OK and rode with the firefighters to a few more calls before a family member was able to collect her.
The firefighters had to use the jaws of life to pop the driver door open as there was no way to actuate the latch, but after that it opened ok. Passenger door opened fine, rear doors were able to be opened manually with just a little shoving from the firefighters despite the damage. Multiple emergency service personnel said they were expecting fatalities when they saw the crash scene and were surprised to find us all alert and with non life threatening injuries. Other than my wife we were all able to walk with minimal assistance needed once we had been gotten out. I credit our Odyssey with how well we came away. Considering the fact that the first impact was a smaller offset and approaching 100 MPH and the second rear impact was at least 40 MPH the Odyssey absorbed a ton of energy and didn't collapse or allow us to be crushed. I will say the angle of the front impact was important, the front left of our Ody hit the right front side of the oncoming explorer as he was skidding sideways, had we hit more nose to nose I'd likely have been more critically injured or killed as the full weight of the oncoming vehicle would have been in line with me and there is only so much force the structure and the human body can take. Despite being an older generation Odyssey, it still held up extremely well, airbags did what they were supposed to and the car's structure absorbed a ton of energy and held together very well. I credit the Odyssey with us being alive and in generally good shape.
We are a couple years out from the accident and we are doing generally OK, wife still has some numbness in her leg and her back/hips get a little sore if she over does it, but she has an active job and is able to still do that and keep up with two active kids.
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I did have dash camera's outside and inside, I do caution you if you watch this is going to show the front inside cabin of the Odyssey during the crash, and us getting thrown around/hurt. No visible blood or anything like that, and no audio on the inside during the crash but it may still be something not everyone wants to watch. So don't watch if seeing a car crash will upset you. I have not included the video of the second row cause seeing the kids getting thrown around and hurt is not something that needs to be seen.
And finally, of course we had to replace the 2010 Odyssey as there was no chance of saving it. We didn't even bother looking at anything else, we found a nice 2016 Odyssey EX-L with 40K on it and brought it home. We used some of the settlement money to replace our aging 2008 CRV with a 2017 Pilot touring as well. We felt both of these new cars will keep us safe going forward
Be safe out there everyone!
Since safety is a primary concern for many parents out there, I thought I'd share our story.
We had a 2010 Odyssey EX-L that we bought used and it was up to ~150K when it protected us from a very serious accident.
We were on our way home from dinner with extended family, it was myself, the wife, our 7 year old son, 5 year old daughter and our small dog. It was dark and lightly raining I was doing 45 mph in the left lane about 1/4 mile from the left turn off the main road into our neighborhood. A 17-year old driver on the other side of the road was speeding (60 in a 45) and aggressively weaving through traffic. He lost control of his late 90's Ford Explorer, jumped the median slamming into the front left corner of our Honda Odyssey. That front impact pushed us into the center lane front of a vehicle in the center lane causing a secondary high speed rear impact, a 3rd impact occurred as the first vehicle slammed into the left rear corner, those 3 collisions occurred in less than 1 second. We had spun to a stop in just under 4 seconds, having spun almost 360 degrees. There were 8 cars involved in total. The teen driver was ejected from his SUV on impact and knocked out, but apparently came to and was able to get up and walk around after a few minutes... 6 people involved were taken via ambulance (4 of them from our car). I had lacerations from head to mid leg from the broken glass from the windshield and side window, minor surgery was required to remove a few chunks of glass a month later. My knees did hit the dash (I'm over 6 ft) and had some internal joint bruising. My wife partially tore her hip labrums, herniated 2 disks, some internal internal knee damage, fractured a tooth and had PTSD. She has ongoing nerve damage/sensation loss in her leg, 2.5 months on crutches. Our two kids were in the second row in forward facing boosters, son had minor internal joint bruising in his hip and PTSD. Daughter had mostly bumps/bruises. Everyone had whiplash which resolved withing a couple months. Dog was surprisingly OK and rode with the firefighters to a few more calls before a family member was able to collect her.
The firefighters had to use the jaws of life to pop the driver door open as there was no way to actuate the latch, but after that it opened ok. Passenger door opened fine, rear doors were able to be opened manually with just a little shoving from the firefighters despite the damage. Multiple emergency service personnel said they were expecting fatalities when they saw the crash scene and were surprised to find us all alert and with non life threatening injuries. Other than my wife we were all able to walk with minimal assistance needed once we had been gotten out. I credit our Odyssey with how well we came away. Considering the fact that the first impact was a smaller offset and approaching 100 MPH and the second rear impact was at least 40 MPH the Odyssey absorbed a ton of energy and didn't collapse or allow us to be crushed. I will say the angle of the front impact was important, the front left of our Ody hit the right front side of the oncoming explorer as he was skidding sideways, had we hit more nose to nose I'd likely have been more critically injured or killed as the full weight of the oncoming vehicle would have been in line with me and there is only so much force the structure and the human body can take. Despite being an older generation Odyssey, it still held up extremely well, airbags did what they were supposed to and the car's structure absorbed a ton of energy and held together very well. I credit the Odyssey with us being alive and in generally good shape.
We are a couple years out from the accident and we are doing generally OK, wife still has some numbness in her leg and her back/hips get a little sore if she over does it, but she has an active job and is able to still do that and keep up with two active kids.
I did have dash camera's outside and inside, I do caution you if you watch this is going to show the front inside cabin of the Odyssey during the crash, and us getting thrown around/hurt. No visible blood or anything like that, and no audio on the inside during the crash but it may still be something not everyone wants to watch. So don't watch if seeing a car crash will upset you. I have not included the video of the second row cause seeing the kids getting thrown around and hurt is not something that needs to be seen.
And finally, of course we had to replace the 2010 Odyssey as there was no chance of saving it. We didn't even bother looking at anything else, we found a nice 2016 Odyssey EX-L with 40K on it and brought it home. We used some of the settlement money to replace our aging 2008 CRV with a 2017 Pilot touring as well. We felt both of these new cars will keep us safe going forward
Be safe out there everyone!
