This seems to be a good time to mention the accident we saw a couple of weeks ago in Oregon on I5 involving a motorhome. It has stayed with me very keenly since we saw it. There was a relatively new Dutch Star class A motorhome on the other side (going north) that had been involved in an accident of some kind. On the front dash, were some VERY big, heavy dresser drawers that appeared to may have come flying forward when the accident happened. Both windshields were gone. I tried to imagine what must have happened, but it just brought home to me the fact that any time you are in a vehicle, anything or anybody not held down is like a missile flying through space, as many people have reminded us here on this site before. In over 30 years in Vanagons, we've been fortunate to have never been involved in an accident, but it could happen anytime, anywhere. I look at all the "stuff" we haul on trips and just think about all that stuff flying through the air in an accident. Scary! By the way, there was another Westy with us in the stop and go traffic on our side and we stayed in the same area (same speed, etc.) for quite awhile. Bob & Sharon Mendonca 88 Westy 88 Vanagon GL |
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