>Cars on the other side of the highway were already stopping so I didn't. >If that car had hit me I would have been killed, plain and simple. Not >enough protection in the front end of the van. But, I feel I would have >had better prospects were there to be a different point of impact. >However, you never know. It wouldn't matter WHAT you drove... you'dve been dead. Frontals at those speeds are not survivable, and crush zones cease to have meaning. -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut |
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