So William Abbott says: > > My sainted mother got front-ended in our '68 and no one > in our vehicle was injured- someone pointed out that most cars > are lower than your bus, and this is a very good point. Hit That was me.... > a Honda with your bus and the odds are you'll slide over its > hood. I wouldn't want to be in the Honda...
> I've seen, and my brother has, pictures that a Swedish > magazine did of a Vanagon and a Volvo station wagon in an offset > front end collision. The Vanagon rode up over the hood of the > Volvo and stove-in its front windshield. Both cars were instrumented > and had dummies in them- the dummies in the VW were ok... Hmmm..... did the dummies actually say they were ok... ;) Steven sjohnson@pcocd2.intel.com
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