My car has a largish door pillar which can cause a bit of a blind spot if you're pulling out of an angled side road but.... the car's very strong.

A friend's wife had one with her job and one day a motorway off slip-road was backed up. She was second from the end. A lorry came hurtling up the slip road, hit the van behind her, threw the van in the air which landed on her roof. She got out without a scratch!