On Mar 29, 2009, at 17:29 , eactiv...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 3/29/2009 3:38:15 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
p...@web-options.com writes:
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
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I'm glad he is okay. You'd think because the car flipped, the
airbags would
have deployed. Odd.
Makes me feel less unprotected by my airbags now
Looks to me like the Fiat clipped the Audi in the left rear hard
enough to spin the car around rapidly enough so it rolled up onto it's
right side and slid down the road and off into some foliage. The
"cutting out" the rescue workers did was probably to bust out the rear
window, go in and cut his seat belts, board and brace him, and drag
him out the back. The car being up on it's passenger side left Bob's
brother hanging by his belts, and perhaps not able to undo them as his
weight was against their locking pawls and cams, or he might has
covered the release with his body whilst hanging like that.
Nasty business, and I'm glad he is OK. He'll be sore. Bummer about the
car. Looks like a nice ride, one of the beefier Audis. The bitch is
that the Fiat was probably repairable for a lot less.
Joseph McAllister
pentax...@mac.com
“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug a camera.”
–Lewis Hine
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