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Subject:Re: 130Mph, or even 90 -- van safety
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Thu, 9 Dec 2004 23:51:34 +1300

>Cars on the other side of the highway were already stopping so I didn't.
>If that car had hit me I would have been killed, plain and simple. Not
>enough protection in the front end of the van. But, I feel I would have
>had better prospects were there to be a different point of impact.
>However, you never know.

It wouldn't matter WHAT you drove... you'dve been dead. Frontals at
those speeds are not survivable, and crush zones cease to have
meaning.
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut