But, Geeze, John! Many of the vehicles currently on the road have no
"side-impact engineering," my '69 Chevy PU among 'em. It's my daily driver
and will continue to be. That's hardly any reason for scrapping perfectly
servicable vehicles (not that I'm saying you agree with that solution). It
sounds like an excuse to me for something else.
Steve Allen
At 01:56 PM 12/6/99 -0500, JOHN SEIDTS wrote:
>Now as for HMMWV's, you have to face the facts. They are just as dangerous
>as the MUTTS, though not for rollover reasons. There is NO side impact
>engineering. They do not meet modern crash safety requirements, even for
>Sport Utility Vehicles. I saw the autopsy photos of a FRIEND who was
>killed in a 25 MPH side impact of a HMMWV- not pretty, and enough to
>convince me ( in a country which is about to become filled with a very large
>number of older drivers ) that I don't want myself or my family to be in one
>on the highway, or in the streets of Baltimore. And I love driving the
>things- great fun. I wish the facts were different. But they aren't.
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