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The accident had nothing to do about it. What happened was that the plastic became brittle from the drastic changes in temperature. If the radiator pipe was experiencing a torsional load, or a torque on the pipe, it would have failed at a 45 degree angle. And as you said, it failed evenly which decribes that it failed in uniaxial shear stress from the pressure generated in the cooling system.
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