It can work if the other car took more of the damage than it would have compared to a collision with a "squishier" car. Would be interested to see a Cybertruck vs Cybertruck crash.
Postulate two spherical cybertrucken in a vacuum suspended from the same point by wire under Earth gravity acceleration. After contact each vehicle moves away from the point of contact with the energy equivalent of 1/2 the sum of each vehicle's input kinetic energy.
It was just the way the car hit it I guess, CT was basically untouched, everyone was fine, but it was high enough speed to total the other car.
It's not really an indicator of anything, just an interesting happenstance.
CT didn't crumple because it wasn't hit where it needed to crumple.
An unstoppable force hitting an immovable object.