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Lada's are designed to prevent serious injury in head on collisions and actually do a pretty good job of it. In this case the crumple zone rapidly collapsed allowing the engine to be pushed into the driver's lap. The driver's head slammed into the windshield thus ensuring a fatal injury instead of an injury involving a trip through the substandard Russian health care system where he would have eventually died a slow and painful death in some filthy hospital.