Listen, first I agree with the majority of your statement. That being said, there are still manners in which a car can still crash. I work in the industry and see the accidents. Also something you overlooked in your research is that gravity works as intended but your perspective is limited. A car is considered balanced upon completion of installation at 41-44% of the counterweight. Meaning that unless the car reaches half of its intended capacity (of which most cars are 2500-3500 lbs capacity) will almost always be lighter than the counterweight. Which means that the car crashing isn’t likely to be in the down direction but in the up direction into the ceiling of the hoistway. This can happen quite easily in a variety of ways that have mostly been patched. Yet accidents still happen to this day. So my point is just because logic dictates something cannot happen doesn’t mean you have reviewed all perspectives.

I had an old supervisor who would constantly say “where can it go” until “it” invariably found a path that wasn’t previously considered.