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Re: I'm lucky to be alive
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 8 Sep 2000 17:57:56 GMT
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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.
I don't understand why more attention isn't focused on this issue.
A few Firestone's wreak some SUVs and you're got a major crisis, but
those same SUVs are a major hazard to normal vehicles and there seems
to be far less concern about that. Off-road vehicles should remain
off-road shouldn't they?
What I don't get is how they are legal on the road in the first place.
Semi-trucks are required to have "bumpers" at the appropriate level - how
come these raised bumper 4x4 type vehicles aren't illegal? I was stopped
behind a modified 4x4 the other day. It didn't even HAVE a rear bumper,
and the whole truck was about a foot higher than stock. I was sitting
there looking at the steel bottom of the box lined up with my neck,
thinking how if my brakes had failed or something, I'd have been decapitated,
and the front of my car (bumper and all) wouldn't have hit anything on the
truck but the over-size tires...
SRC
(thinking his zippy little Honda may not be the safest way to travel)
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Surely you must recognize the difference between a defective product (tires) which, upon catastrophic failure, directly cause an accident and a product (SUV's) whose design, in the event of an accident, may be unsafe. The high- bumper in (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: I'm lucky to be alive
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| (...) Chiming in a bit late here. As usual, it's not regulation that's needed, per se, but some encouragement of responsibility. That super high SUV driver needs to be responsible for things his SUV causes. I would posit that no-fault insurance (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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