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Safest Volvo Wagon: 245, 745, or 855???????

posted by  walrus3 on  Tue Oct 21 02:30 CST 2003
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I've been watching the papers for accidents since Esther was nearly killed
in 2000. I have seen one fatality in our papers where a car was struck by
a train and the driver wearing a seatbelt was killed, but hundreds where
there was a fatality and the person who died was NOT wearing a seatbelt.
Dead folks don't tell lies (but they do lie on the ground near accident scenes.)
I conclude that in a car with a strong shell, like a Volvo, the seatbelt will
keep you from being killed by the steering wheel, dashboard, etc.
In a car with a weak shell you can get your legs crushed between the dash
and the floor.
I suspect that the most effective safety device is the nut behind the steering
wheel, but seatbelts help to control you when you can't control yourself.
Airbags are BAD about breaking arms (broke both of Esther's).

--
George Downs, The "original" Walrus3, Bartlesville, Oklahoma






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