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Subject:Re: collision risk
From:Steve Johnson
Date:Wed, 3 May 1995 13:43:26 -0700 (PDT)

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 

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