A couple things to point out. First off I'm glad that my new 2012 has a metal tailgate instead of the old plastic one. Second, this being a very unusually hard rear end hit with what seems to be a tall SUV or truck and the fact that there was a rear hitch mount platform that could have distributed the hit a little biased to the right side I think overall the MZ5 took the hit pretty well. Looks like even the right side slider still works perfectly. Another thing to note is, notice the sheet metal on each side in the hatch where the glass goes over as well as the thick D-pillar combined with the headrest in the proper position provide almost complete protection of an occupants head. Now consider this, the fact that the 3rd row seats where broken off most likely tells me that there was no one in them to provide weight on them. At any rate, occupants would or did sustain injuries but I'm sure they survived. I do hope everyone that was in there was okay and are recovering.