On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > My younger brother spent Thursday night in hospital after someone drove into > his car at 45 mph (~72kph). The car rolled and my brother was trapped > inside, and had to be cut free by the fire brigade. They strapped him to a > stretcher ("like Hannibal Lecter"), took him in for an examination, then let > him out a few hours later, more or less intact. > > Here are some pictures he took of the car, which is a write-off - it doesn't > look at all as though it's been hit at that speed, or rolled. The car has > more airbags than Dolly Parton, yet none of them deployed. When he asked > about it he was told that the car wasn't hit hard enough. Yet it's a > write-off. Amazing how strong these things are these days - it probably > saved his life. > http://www.web-options.com/Audi/ > > Here's a very uninformative press report about it: > http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Man-hospitalised-after-Leeds-smas > h.5115560.jp > > Bob >
I know at least two instances of people writing off cars with no or almost no cosmetic damage. One was an accident, the other stupidity. Both involved terminal damage to the driveline. One was cause by black ice and a rock gutting the transaxle on a Suparu Impreza, the other a car sliding under a truck and taking out the tranny, driveshaft and transfer case. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
