Abstract: An accident safety device for a motor vehicle includes two separate accident safety bodies which are spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance and are fastenable opposite each other to a motor vehicle bodyshell. One of the accident safety bodies is fastenable to an underbody element of the motor vehicle body shell. Another of the accident safety bodies has a catch element which corresponds to the one accident safety body and is designed to block the two accident safety bodies from avoiding each other in the event of an accident of the motor vehicle. A motor vehicle is equipped with such an accident safety device and a method controls the conversion of impact energy into work of deformation by use of the accident safety device.

Abstract: A bearing arrangement of a component on an axle carrier which is to be mounted on a body of a motor vehicle is provided, in the case of which bearing arrangement the axle carrier has two longitudinal elements as first structural elements and at least one transverse element as a second structural element, via which the longitudinal elements are connected to one another. The component is mounted on the axle carrier via a rubber bearing which has a bearing core and a rubber element which is formed from rubber and via which the component is mounted on the axle carrier. In the installed position of the component and the axle carrier, in the vehicle vertical direction, the bearing core is arranged below a lower side, which points downwards in the vehicle vertical direction, or above an upper side, which points upwards in the vehicle vertical direction, of one of the structural elements, and is attached via its two ends and, as a result, in double shear to the one structural element or the component.