A crash test of motorhomes highlights the risk of travelling in these vehicles

The Swedish administration has considered how safe some campervans are and has filmed some motorhome crash tests for its study

It is common to record impact tests of cars during their development phases in order to assess their level of safety for their occupants and for other road users.

Both for including the best and the worst Euro NCAP cars, these lists should be more than merely anecdotal when it comes to buying a new car, but likewise they should be influential with regard to purchasing or renting a camper-type vehicle.

This is a situation that has reached the Swedish government, which has proposed evaluating the safety of these vans through the Trafikverket, which would be equivalent to the government department responsible for traffic in Sweden, due to the boom these vehicles have experienced in the Scandinavian country over the last five years and the data on people killed in accidents involving these recreational vehicles.

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Campervanisation increases both the enjoyment and the risk of these vans

Although these vehicles are converted to meet the safety standards required and approved for use on the road like any car under each country’s regulations, the architectural and structural modification also entails a change in the safety margins of converted campervans.

From the vehicle’s own elements, such as those fitted during its conversion into a camper, to unsecured goods or utensils belonging to those who spend a day living together inside one of these vans, they can have irreparable consequences even in a collision at just 64 km/h, like the one simulated in this video showing the crash test of a state-of-the-art motorhome.

Spain has already warned of the risk of travelling in motorhomes

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And this issue has also been highlighted in Spain, in this case by an organisation outside the public administration, the Organización de Consumidores y Usuarios (OCU), which already denounced in 2014, with the following video, the risk involved in travelling in a motorhome without the seat belt correctly fastened.

The OCU’s motorhome crash test shows the deadly impact that travelling without fastening your seat belt and having a multitude of loose props can have, which become projectiles when travelling in one of these vehicles, however low the speed.