This must be the third story I have heard about someone literally ripped a car door off its hinges after an accident. There is another mention of this scenario in the comments at that story. Does anyone know how easy it would be to do that? Is it an adrenaline rush thing happening... or maybe something larger at work? It makes you wonder.
I bet it’s that adrenaline thing, like when people lift up a car to free someone stuck under it. The body is a wondrous and mysterious thing.
It is not that it is easy, or not-easy. You just do.
To quote Yoda, “There is no try. There is do, or not-do.”
The human body is capable of amazing feats in times of need - given incentive, your muscles can strain hard enough to literally break your bones. That is, you can pick up a car, but you might break your arms doing it.
It would be almost impossible to rip an intact door off it’s hinges.
The fact that the car was smashed into a five foot long box likely damaged the hinges to the point where it was possible, with an adrenalin rush, to rip the door loose.
But, Haven’t we all heard stories of people who lift a car to get a trapped child out?
Who knows? As others have said, there are some things we do not and may not ever understand, until we pass this physical plane.
It’s adrenaline. Almost totally masks pain and lets you fully use your muscles in a burst. People can literally rip their arms out of their own sockets, snap their own bones, etc. and keep going.
When the adrenaline wears off, though - OUCH! (Been there.)
The jaws of life have to be under extream pressure to tear a door off the hinges. No normal man can do it. However, I have heard that adrenalyn can do amazing things.
Living in an apartment complex once and got home from work to see an ambulance pulling away and a couple of police cars and a fire truck. Apparently, one of the neighbor’s kids, a cute little 4 year old girl, was run over by a lady backing out of her parking space. The lady stopped her car with her rear tire on top of the girl. The girl’s dad, had just run around the corner to corrall another child when he heard the screaming.
The story from others was that the dad (about 5’10” and 190lbs, not large or muscular by any means) came around to the back of the car, put his back to it and lifted it off his daughter so the lady could pull her out. After a couple of weeks in the hospital, the little girl came home. Talking with the dad a couple of days later, he said, in retrospect, it was a really strange experience, at the time he was lifting the car, he felt like he could have lifted 4 times the weight.