From a safety bulleting the colorado state patrol put out a couple years
ago.  Most fatalities and serious injuries in rollover accidents of any kind
are caused by one of two things.

Victim is ejected and crushed by vehicle rolling over them or impact with
the ground.

Victim is fatally or seriously injured by flying debris within the vehicle.

There are many makes of vehicle with batteries internal and under seats
other than vanagons and the battery if significant would have been on the
list and the nhtsa would also be banning the practice.

Out of the rather large number of vehicle fires reported, only a handful
were from accidents and none of them appeared to be from rollovers.  Opening
the hood was listed as a good way to obtain a burn injury.

jimt

On 10/2/05 7:40 AM, "Robert Cardo" <rrecardo@WEBTV.NET> wrote:

> I have news for you Joey Chitwood type that are planning on laying your
> Vans on their roofs.
>
> The batteries falling out of their mounts, or leaking acid should be the
> least of your worries.
>
> I would assume that you'd be thinking more about "how in the heck am I
> gonna get outa here ASAP" than worrying about the batteries.