Don't forget that one of the crash possibilities can include a rollover or even multiple rollovers.

Dennis 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Don Hanson
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 11:03 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Loose stuff inside vans.

With the inverter/crock pot cooking under way conversation going elsewhere here, it's probably a good time to bring up the Subject.
    Anything you have, unsecured, in your van as you're going somewhere, it will become a potentially lethal projectile in the event of crash.  The whole van and all it's  contents are full of kinetic energy at speed...stop the van against something and all the loose  contents will keep going until THEY get stopped, too.  If that crock pot, that set of golf clubs, that portopotty, that table saw hits YOU or anyone else during a crash, it is likely to damage or kill.
   One of the cardinal rules in auto racing and for club tracktime events is absolutely no loose objects inside any car when on track.
   Yes, it's really not something we often consider as we VANAGON around, but inertia exists.  Something to be aware of.