Glad everyone came out relatively safe. Scary, I'm sure. You did a great job minimizing the impact as well as you did.
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Niro safety
Got our '23 EX the end of February. This was the wife's first ever new car with "zero" miles, drove it every day even if she had nowhere to go 😂
Mid May I drove it from middle Georgia to upstate NY. 1,075 miles mostly all interstate and averaged 52 mpg. Best half tank was 54.6 mpg. Two passengers & luggage in the car.
Headed back home, 785 miles all interstate averaged 51 mpg with the best tank giving 53.96 mpg. Three passengers plus a whole lot of luggage on the trip back.
All of the above numbers were calculated, the car computer generally read 2-3 mpg better.
Pretty darned good!
I got fairly decent operating the adaptive cruise and finally got to the point of trusting the lane keep and such. It really did make a big difference in the drive comfort. I'm sold on these features now. And I love that blind spot stuff going on in the side mirrors.
Things got a bit ugly in Augusta, Georgia. We were headed downhill on US Highway 1 south., just putting the city in the rearview mirror, about 2 1/2 - 3 hours from home. Approaching a traffic light, green for us, I spotted a tractor trailer coming down a steep side street on the right - not good - he was traveling too fast to stop. I was traveling too fast to stop - dang sure not good Kia Niro vs tractor trailer, this won't end well. To avoid a T-Bone I yanked the wheel left, somewhere I am sure I stood on the brakes. The truck struck somewhere at or near the B-pillar. Truck driver said he lost his brakes. The state has (or will) impound the truck and inspect for that sort of thing. The road here is a divided four lane with turn lanes at the light. We ended up blocking both northbound lanes. There were witnesses on site who seen it unfold - and the truck driver admitted his light was red.
The Niro did it's job. Seat air bag and side curtain airbags went off. Wife was rear passenger on the passenger side, suffered a lot of chest bruising from the seat belt (normal rear seat belt injury we are told). Sister in law was front passenger and she suffered a lot of cuts and bruises from broken glass and "everything". The women folks were cut out of the car. We were treated and released from the hospital that evening.
We are all very thankful. In a T-bone the truck would have likely, IMHO, drove over us. Likely none of us would have survived.
We can't say enough good with our Niro's protection of the occupants.
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Mid May I drove it from middle Georgia to upstate NY. 1,075 miles mostly all interstate and averaged 52 mpg. Best half tank was 54.6 mpg. Two passengers & luggage in the car.
Headed back home, 785 miles all interstate averaged 51 mpg with the best tank giving 53.96 mpg. Three passengers plus a whole lot of luggage on the trip back.
All of the above numbers were calculated, the car computer generally read 2-3 mpg better.
Pretty darned good!
I got fairly decent operating the adaptive cruise and finally got to the point of trusting the lane keep and such. It really did make a big difference in the drive comfort. I'm sold on these features now. And I love that blind spot stuff going on in the side mirrors.
Things got a bit ugly in Augusta, Georgia. We were headed downhill on US Highway 1 south., just putting the city in the rearview mirror, about 2 1/2 - 3 hours from home. Approaching a traffic light, green for us, I spotted a tractor trailer coming down a steep side street on the right - not good - he was traveling too fast to stop. I was traveling too fast to stop - dang sure not good
Kia Niro vs tractor trailer, this won't end well. To avoid a T-Bone I yanked the wheel left, somewhere I am sure I stood on the brakes. The truck struck somewhere at or near the B-pillar. Truck driver said he lost his brakes. The state has (or will) impound the truck and inspect for that sort of thing. The road here is a divided four lane with turn lanes at the light. We ended up blocking both northbound lanes. There were witnesses on site who seen it unfold - and the truck driver admitted his light was red.The Niro did it's job. Seat air bag and side curtain airbags went off. Wife was rear passenger on the passenger side, suffered a lot of chest bruising from the seat belt (normal rear seat belt injury we are told). Sister in law was front passenger and she suffered a lot of cuts and bruises from broken glass and "everything". The women folks were cut out of the car. We were treated and released from the hospital that evening.
We are all very thankful. In a T-bone the truck would have likely, IMHO, drove over us. Likely none of us would have survived.
We can't say enough good with our Niro's protection of the occupants.
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I appreciate everyone's good will. You are absolutely correct regarding modern cars and the safety features they contain. Regarding the Niro, my wife loved it and gives it great credit in the outcome we had.
We have a trip to the Georgia mountains this weekend for a gathering of old college friends (less one - RIP). We will have a couple hours drive time alone (2 hours alone & awake is somewhat unusual). I think we will decide on this first leg of the trip what we will look for. If it's a Niro, I would like to upgrade to the SX. I would really like to upgrade to the PHEV SX. We copped our Weather Tech floor liner from the EX, so we are already sort of invested in just the hybrid 😂 😂
As an update to the original post, after looking at more pics of the car I think we were actually struck on the A pillar and dragged-slid about 50-60 feet after the impact. The truck had those Mad Max lug nuts on the front wheels that stick out, my SIL says my new nickname will be Mad Max
😂We will have to watch the movie again to come up with appropriate names for her and my wife!!!
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