The sad part is that in this country when somebody makes a mistake they look
around for somebody else to blame for their actions.

Joe

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Flaherty" <jflahert@maine.rr.com>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: Vanagon Lawsuit

> I couldn't tell what they hit from the article. With injuries so severe I
> can't help but wonder how fast they were going on that "icy" road.
>
> John Flaherty
> '84 GL
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Blake Thornton" <thornton@math.utah.edu>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2001 3:07 PM
> Subject: Re: Vanagon Lawsuit
>
>
> > This is quite sad and interesting.  It made me wonder when the US
started
> > requiring shoulder belts in the rear seats (it was certainly after 1986,
> > the year of their van).  And, it seems that the basis of the claim is
that
> > VW knew that the shoulder-belts were safer because they put them in
other
> > models (I didn't know that 86 vanagons had shoulder-belts in other
> > countries).
> >
> > It doesn't make sense to me.  It seems like this family should have sued
> > the US gov't for not having stricter regulations.
> >
> > blake
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Jason Yasment wrote:
> >
> > > A gentleman sent me this article from a New Hampshire newspaper.  It
is
> > > sad, but it has some interesting points.
> > >
> > > http://www.jasontek.com/vw/vanagon_lawsuit.jpg
> > >
> > > If anyone cares to make the file smaller, I'll put up the smaller
> version.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jason M Yasment
> > > '84 Westfalia
> > > Troy, NY
> > > Free, encrypted, secure Web-based email at www.hushmail.com
> >
>