On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:11:56 +0200, "Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot
com> wrote:

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>"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
>news:48a6a2dd$1@news.povray.org...
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>> Few people seem to realise that if you crash your car at 40 MPH,
>> you probably won't walk away without fairly significant injury.
>>
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>Depends on what you're driving. Older cars, yes. The modern cars with
>airbags, crumple zones, etc, not so much.
>Also, of course, how you crash the car.
>
True, I was watching a Top Gear programme where the idiots deliberately crashed
their cars into a earth bank at 30 mph. Clarkson's car (an old Volvo) did not
have a working speedo and he crashed it at about 40 mph. Not only did he walk
away the car was drivable afterwards. It is pedestrians that have problems in
30+ mph crashes.

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Regards
     Stephen

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