Date:         Sat, 16 Jul 2005 09:03:24 EDT
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From:         John Carpenter <Trvlr2001@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Packing a '90 Westy
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In a message dated 7/15/2005 9:42:46 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
bobonsharo@SBCGLOBAL.NET writes:

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!
.
Hi All,
You've no doubt seen the blade of straw that
is imbedded into a windshield during a hurricane.
In one accident some thirty years ago,
a box of Kleenex tissue
flew from the back window of the car
and hit the poor fellow in the back of the neck.
He was as dead as if it had been an anvil.
As we all know,
Don't take much!
This Mortal Coil.
Keep things tidy...
best,
JC....
PS: I'd still rather die in Oregon, than Utah :o)