[elky] Re: crash test
- From: John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:02:03 -0500
Interesting.
I came up to the corner that I walk by on my walks every day on Sunday.
Cindy was driving. We were turning left, the guy to the right of us going
straight pulled out and hit an Explorer with 2 gals in the front, and a baby
in the car seat in the back. The Explorer rolled, but landed on it's feet.
Everyone was OK... everyone. The whole front end was torn off the Nissan
Altima. Goes to show the safety is there now. My 64 Nova would have beat the
shit out of me in that same situation, in either cars position.
JC
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John Christensen
Saint Charles, IL
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Chris Lindh <chrislindh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Great article Frank - really good stuff. My favorite part:
>
> "But suppose we ask what have all these improvements done for us?
>
> The answer is one hell of a lot. Using only a few of the relevant
> statistics, here’s the story in brief.
>
> In 1959, 36,223 motorists missed their next meal. As a nation we drove
> 700.5 million miles, and that worked out to 5.2 fatalities per million
> miles traveled. Last year, with our population having grown from 179.3
> million in 1969 to an estimated 300 million today, the year 2008 saw
> 37,261 highway deaths. U.S. motorists drove 2.9 billion miles last
> year and averaged 1.27 fatalities per million miles traveled.
>
> In rough numbers, there were 120 million more of us, we drove four
> times as many miles, and we killed one-fifth as many people. That is
> beyond outstanding.
>
> But at what cost? In 1959, the average cost of a new car was $2,200
> and the average worker made $5,010. In 2008, the average worker earned
> $40,532 but had to pay $27,958 for a new car. In other words, the
> buyer paid nearly 40 percent of a year’s take for an automobile in
> 1959 but had to pay 69 percent in 2008. That’s a stunning rise, and
> you can bet that a large part of that increase in car prices is due to
> the inclusion of safety equipment. Imagine how much money the bean
> counters could thrift (their word) out of a car if they removed all
> the safety devices added in the past 50 years.
>
> The real question is: Is safety worth it? I think you have to say it
> is. Otherwise, using the historic yardsticks for fatalities per
> million miles traveled, you’d have to add about 150,000 motorists a
> year to the Grim Reaper’s tote board. I say spend the money."
>
> I guess having been rear ended by an 18 wheeler makes me more
> appreciative of safety equipment...
> Chris
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:57 AM, <STILLFRANKSFAULT@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > interesting
> >
> http://autos.aol.com/article/crash-1959-chevy?icid=main|htmlws-main-n|dl4|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fautos.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fcrash-1959-chevy<http://autos.aol.com/article/crash-1959-chevy?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl4%7Clink4%7Chttp%3A%2F%2Fautos.aol.com%2Farticle%2Fcrash-1959-chevy>
> > -Staten Island Frank-
> >
>
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