A Ford Fiesta was crashed at 35kph sideways into a passively safe 15m lighting column provided by HYDRO. The column was mounted in a Retention Socket supplied and installed by NAL. (No power supply).
Despite the low speed and orientation of the impact, the product still performed perfectly, shearing away as it is designed to do, causing very little damage or intrusion to the side of the car (and significantly less than that caused by the traditional column in Demo 1). It is very unlikely that any serious injury would have been sustained by the driver as a result. The remaining portion of the column was subsequently removed with ease from the NAL Retention socket, which was then available to be re-used for a replacement column. This was an impressive display of how safe the HYDRO range of columns are, and HYDRO are to be thanked for having the confidence in their product to allow us to conduct this type of demonstration and they should be congratulated on its subsequent performance.