What are the survival rates for driving a car off a mountain cliff?

[Jinxed]

Hi guys,

I am exploring options to ctb in India. I want to portray it as an accident. The only option I can think of is being involved in a fatal car accident. I am planning to rent a car and drive from an altitude of 1000-2000 feet in the Himalayas. If the car does not explode, I expect that I should probably die from the car's impact with the ground. Can you guys share tour suggestions on the workability of this strategy? Any experiences/citations would also be helpful.

By the way, if someone has alternate methods to ctb (by portraying it as an accident) that you can share, it would be of great help.

Thanks!

 

[Dead beat dad]

Not the most reliable strategy and you risk hurting others but it might work. Alternatively get hammered drunk and fall in a lake.
I wish you peace brother.
DBD

 

[AmayB]

Wish I could find a way to make it look like an accident to only thing holding me back is I don't want my family to see me as a suicide. :(

 

[TiredHorse]

I was a firefighter/EMT in the mountains of CA. Our district had one section of road where people often drove over the edge. Fatalities were a lot more common in the era pre-airbags and pre-crumplezones, but there were certainly some fatalities even despite those features. Unsurprisingly, the critical factors seemed to be how close to vertical the slope beyond the road was --more vertical = more fatal-- and how bare the slope was --trees slow down the car's descent-- and how long a drop --longer drop = more fatal. If you can, as you describe, take a 1000' flier down a near-vertical slope, you almost certainly will not survive.

However, there probably won't be an explosion. That's a nice Hollywood trope, but pretty much never happens in reality. Fire, sometimes; explosion, no.

 

[Jinxed]

I was a firefighter/EMT in the mountains of CA. Our district had one section of road where people often drove over the edge. Fatalities were a lot more common in the era pre-airbags and pre-crumplezones, but there were certainly some fatalities even despite those features. Unsurprisingly, the critical factors seemed to be how close to vertical the slope beyond the road was --more vertical = more fatal-- and how bare the slope was --trees slow down the car's descent-- and how long a drop --longer drop = more fatal. If you can, as you describe, take a 1000' flier down a near-vertical slope, you almost certainly will not survive.

However, there probably won't be an explosion. That's a nice Hollywood trope, but pretty much never happens in reality. Fire, sometimes; explosion, no.

Thank you for the response. The car won't be having any air bags. The idea would be to gain as much vertical speed as possible so that the impact is fatal.

Not the most reliable strategy and you risk hurting others but it might work. Alternatively get hammered drunk and fall in a lake.
I wish you peace brother.
DBD

Will alcohol eliminate the suffocating feeling of drowning? Just scared of that feeling I'll experience if I'm conscious before drowning. Otherwise, this is a good method to go.

 

[Donewith_]

wouldn't that be a bit painful?
correct me if i am wrong.