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Accident

posted by  jablackburn on  Sat Dec 5 17:22 CST 2009
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"Maybe other manufacturers installed this safety device at the time the car was manufactured"

maybe, maybe not. None of my older manual cars had this feature, and they weren't Volvos either.

I've forgotten about leaving it in gear and lurched them a few times too, but it's really an issue of COMMON SENSE, something I like to think Volvo owners more than anyone else typically have.

1)You just don't stand over a car while it's being started...and 2) the other guy shouldn't have started A MANUAL CAR without pushing on the clutch first. Most cars have this feature now, but still...

I really don't see how such cases go into court and actually win. I feel bad for him too, but it's not like the car started and went on a rampage by itself and decided to run him over.






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