OREANDA-NEWS. Safety has always been a part of Scania’s DNA. The new generation of trucks have undergone five years of advanced crash testing, with technologies and equipment never before used for heavy vehicles.

A total of some 40 trucks had to give up their lives during the development phase of the new truck generation. Every single crash test is planned for over a year, takes six to eight weeks to prepare for – and is over in half a second.

1. The truck and a passenger car are prepared for the crash test.Peggy Bergman 2015

To prepare for these brief but important moments, a large number of sensors and other test equipment is rigged in and around the test vehicle and crash test dummy. Because the crash process goes so incredibly fast, dozens of high-speed cameras are used so that the crash can be studied in detail.

2. Time for the actual test. In a fraction of a second it’s over.Peggy Bergman 2015

One of all these tests, with the working title ’trailer back’, aims to calibrate the sensor that deploys the truck’s airbags. At a crash facility at Helmond in the Netherlands, ­Scania’s crash test team is preparing for a collision where one corner of the new truck will be driven straight into a trailer in front of it.

3. After the test bits and pieces are collected for the analyses of the test.Peggy Bergman 2015

Sandin ensures that all the sensors and measuring equipment in and around the truck are working properly ahead of the controlled crash. The data from the test will be used in the calibration of the truck’s safety system. Alongside her in the building is the result of yesterday’s test – a new truck that’s now ready for the scrapyard.