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Re: I'm lucky to be alive
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Fri, 18 Aug 2000 01:14:44 GMT
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Taking's Scott's cue to direct this towards .debate (though my response here
isn't particularly of a debating nature)....

In lugnet.people, Richard Marchetti writes:
I understand that SUVs and other raised up vehicles represent a particular
hazard to more typical automobiles in an accident because they have a tendency
to get pushed up and ride over the other car, crushing down or otherwise just
removing the upper part of the vehicle and removing human heads as they go.

Actually, in this particular case, I think the truck riding up onto my vehicle
may have saved me some injury. Of course if the truck had had a bit more
energy, I would have been a gonner for sure. In this case, the truck riding up
on my vehicle probably reduced the force of impact significantly. If he had
hit my bumber solidly, I think a lot less metal would have crushed.

Frank



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(...) Lego be damned -- be glad that you are alive, Man! I understand that SUVs and other raised up vehicles represent a particular hazard to more typical automobiles in an accident because they have a tendency to get pushed up and ride over the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.loc.us)

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