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From: bob@wucs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Small cars in collisions
Message-ID: <206@wucs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Apr-84 14:03:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 24 14:03:46 1984
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Organization: Wash. Univ. in St. Louis, CS Dept.
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I had the unfortunate experience of being in a 50MPH
accident between a VW Dasher (mine) and an MG something
or other (the bum who cut in front of me :-).  In this
case a relatively small amount of the force of the 
accident was absorbed by the passengers in my car, as
the peculiar structure of the Dasher frame simply folded
a bit without "compromising" the passenger compartment.
The MG was set flying (into another car standing at a
crossroad), and suffered considerable disfigurement.  
Judging from that I would rather be in the car that stays
put rather than the one that goes flying.  The passengers in
the other car were probably spared severe injury only because
of the fact that they were stoned out of their minds.

Bob Israel
Washington University