Has anybody ever rolled a car over IRL? were you able to resume driving?

I'm playing the Police-Patrol scenario with the old Gavril roamer. I needed to turn around because I passed the perp, and while making a sharp k-turn on a hill (at very low speed) my vehicle gradually tipped over, rolled onto its roof, but had just enough momentum left to keep rolling over and landed back on its wheels.

The roamer was able to keep driving just fine after that, without much more apparent damage than a smashed lightbar. I've done similar manuevers with many other vehicles in the game with usually the same apparent lack of damage.

Is this realistic? In real life I would expect the roof to partially cave in and all the glass to break at a minimum. But i've never rolled a real car, so i cant say.

For a while I was suspecting that the cars in BNG are unrealistically too durable. (especially that default pickup truck!). But then i tried re-creating some of the 40MPH offset crash tests that the government does (plenty of cool youtube videos on that subject) and the real-world vehicles seemed to deform about the same as the BNG ones. or vice versa... I dont know, it still seems dubious that a car could rollover and keep going.

 

I've rolled over my radio flyer when I was 5. My head didn't serve much protection.

 

Even if you were able to resume driving, you likely wouldn't as you would be in shock, unless you were 100% sure it was going to happen.

 

Depending how you land on your roof, you'd be fine to keep driving. I've seen it happen before even. A guy rolled his Ramcharger at the end of my street when I was a kid and he and a couple of my neighbors helped him push it back over and he drove away.

A modern EFI car would need the fuel pump switch reset probably.

 

I've seen many Jeeps and Offroad-suited vehicles roll over at high and low speeds, and as long as there's no major frame, engine, or suspension, then yes it'll still drive, It's just tweaked and will never drive the same.

 

Rollovers aren't necessarily as catastrophic as one may think. BeamNG doesn't have fully realistic engine damage yet, which may be a factor some times, but driving away isn't at all impossible. It's just not something you would do in a real crash for obvious reasons. This one was in a similarish vehicle to the Roamer and didn't even break the windshield:

 

Check those guys out^ lmfao. But I agree, you'd probably need a minute or ten.
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Well you have to think too that no two crashes will be the same. These dudes in the video lost a lot of speed before they rolled fully (I think the suspension compressed a lot and dug the front wheel into the ground) and they landed on a rather soft surface (with the suspension digging in theory, the soil would be very helpful). It doesn't even look like they made contact with the trees. So, that's not a bad crash. Knowing that they were driving a jeep puts it into the roll-over-prone category on its own. If they were in a small car, a roll over would've been much more unlikely. If the small car were to roll, I think something more catastrophic would have had to happen IE having a really strong grab of traction at a high rate of speed.

 

i was 5 and rolled this and drove off coz im a gangsta

 

I once helped my cousin get his Pontiac Sunfire back on its wheels after it rolled 3 times. (I wasn't in it, he called me and I showed up) After that we had to get in it and push the roof back out with our feet and get rid of the windshield... after that though he drove it home... hell that was 3 years ago and that thing is still his daily driver. He delivers mail in it still I think

 

I've been in a car roll once, wasn't that bad. In this sort of Nissan, ugly as hell:




What happened was that couple friends drove downhill in one sandy backroad me sitting in the backseat, into this sandy bottom area, made a handbrake turn and back to the uphill. However, in the last attempt, they changed drivers and the next guy drove 100 km/h down the hill, pulled the handbrake, but we then hit the previous wheel marks in the sand. The tyres suddenly hit with the end of the marks and wouldn't go beyond that = the car flipped to the roof. First thing I scared was that some wooden speaker boxes went just past my head, had a luck there. Then we just crawled out of the car and started to laugh. The car was suprisingly intact, can't remember, that was the windshield intact thou (the car was going to be scrapped anyway). We then rolled it back to wheels with another car and pulled it back to the yard. We let it stand still for 15 mins to let the oils go back into the right place. We couldn't start it first, but then we noticed, that the engine's grounding cable had snapped, I replaced it with another one and it started up nicely and worked like nothing had happened.

 

Hmm I think one of the guys landed on the windscreen but apart from that it didn't break.
At 48 seconds or so you can see a little crack in the bottom left from something that wasn't the crash.

 

One of my mates was having some fun in the bush and rolled his '97 LandCruiser Ute. Winched it back onto all 4 and drove it home that night. Just gotta remember to clean out any oil that may have gotten into the intake & cylinders.

 

I've been in a rollover before. Car was wrecked (though bounced on a few trees too) and glass destroyed. But the roof was generally intact.


It's why the a,b and C pillars are so thick on most cars. Act as rollover protection fit occupants

 

Well, I've rolled over on one of those little toy tractors you see kids on a year ago after a party....
I think we all knew I drank too much that night...
Anyhow, I was on a hill and it flipped over on my head and landed on the wheels to proceede to drive up the hill and flip again....

To go back on topic, it is realistic, as the roof doesn't affect the power train, engine, or wheels, kinda like if you crush the roof of a GM with the large bricks, it can still drive afterwards as long as the bricks don't crush past the floor of the vehical