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Date:         Mon, 28 Feb 2000 15:35:32 MST
Reply-To:     Sean Garrett <seangar@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Sean Garrett <seangar@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Safe vehicles was Vanagon safety and design?
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She is a trauma nurse and treats the unseatbelted injuries every night she
works. Yes, she always wears a belt.




>From: =David-M= <dmc@CYBURBAN.COM>
>Reply-To: =David-M= <dmc@CYBURBAN.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Safe vehicles was Vanagon safety and design?
>Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:02:24 -0500
>
> >My sister in-law was involved in a serious accident on Sunday :-( She
> >drives
> >a 99 Bonneville.
> > She is having her femur pinned this
> >morn. Case in point... even todays american vehicles with advanced
> >safety
> >design didn't let her escape a serious injury. The vanagon (& German
> >engineering) still rate very high with me.
> >
>Was she wearing a seatbelt? Air-bags are 'supplemental' restraints. ie.
>no good if you are unbelted.
>American cars tend to have the worst crash ratings of any type.
>Also, worst bumber damage in low speed knocks.


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