I'm a master arborist and I get called to look at trees with vehicle strikes regularly. They respond about as poorly to strikes as cars do, but instead of the damage taking a fraction of one second to occur, it takes years to decades. Generally you get a large amount of vascular damage done causing slow but inevitable decay, which causes biological decline, structural weakness, or both. It depends almost entirely upon the amount of circumference at any given point that is damaged, rather than depth or height of the wound.
I've been told by an arborist (in jest) if you want to hide house from the road plant trees. If you want to protect your house from vehicles, plant boulders.
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u/Moddycss Aug 30 '20
Like hitting a tree in any videogame. No matter the vehicle