I used to be concerned about having a front end wreck in a bus, with only a foot or so of metal as protection. That was until I went to buy some parts off a 79 bus that had hit a Landrover head-on. (In case you've never seen one, a Landrover a sort of Jeep with a chassis built out of the leftover parts of the Forth Bridge). It came round a bend on a narrow country road on the wrong side of the road and hit the bus with a combined speed of about 60mph. The Landrover had its engine block break in two and bent the front axle into a V-shape (quite an achievement as these axles look like they're recycled from old steam locomotives). The bus, although completely wrecked with a twisted shell and no driver's door, was driven back a mile or so to the guy's house. He was completely unharmed apart from a few bruises. Ralf Nader? Sit on this! Andy E. A.C.Erskine@lut.ac.uk
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