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By way of contrast, here's a case in which someone has suffered life-threatening injuries after crashing into a lamppost:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/leytonstone-crash-man-fighting-for-life-after-crashing-car-into-lamppost-in-east-london-a3745806.html
Part of the reason why I started this thread was because I was interested in whether that evidently successful design objective of protecting people when crashing head-on into a wall, i.e. as per the ubiquitous and iconic crash test dummy images, was not insufficient given other types of crashes. The lamppost (or tree) problem that vehicles get wrapped around them seems completely unsolved (although perhaps not unaddressed, I just haven't been able to find anything conclusive on it).