Myc, A friend from Idaho was recently driving his Westfalia Syncro with a trailer at 75 MPH through Colorado and hit a Bull Elk. The Van was totaled but he and his son walked away from the accident after the Van and the trailer left the road and flipped onto their sides. He feels strongly that if he had been in a lesser or particularly a lower vehicle, he and his son would have been wearing 1000 lbs of Elk. He is buying a replacement Syncro Westy tomorrow. Brian Steel http://www.smallcar.com On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 21:25:09 -0700, Mike Williams <westyvanagon@YAHOO.COM> wrote: >Woah...that was close! > >I was just driving down Highway 60 in the East Phoenix >Valley (Arizona) and I failed to notice that traffic >was stopped up ahead of me in the right lane (yeah...I >even drive in the slow lane). So...with a split >second decision to side swipe any car next to me...or >hit head on with the rear end of an expedition, I >quickly made the decision to swerve...seeing as how at >65mph without a seatbelt in a vanagon would most >certainly mean instant death. So...I swerve...and > Myc |
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