SUV Rollovers: A woman I work with just had an accident

noiretextatique

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Fri Apr-02-04 05:55 PM
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SUV Rollovers: A woman I work with just had an accident

She and her teenage daughter were in the a LandRover. They were hit from the driver's side, as I understand the story so far, and the thing rolled over several times.

They are both alive...banged, bruised and scraped...but alive.

Her daughter was most severely injured...she hit her head, and the skin from one of her forearms was scrapped off.

I hate SUVs.

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realdeal22k

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Fri Apr-02-04 05:58 PM
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1. Most side impacts will either roll over or crumble

Do you think they would have been better of in a mini-car?

What vehicle hit them?

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TreasonousBastard

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Fri Apr-02-04 06:22 PM
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6. Maybe not a Hyundai Accent, but...

my Saturn has the one of best injury records for being t-boned of anything smaller than a cement truck. The doors weigh a ton, and the whole thing just feels Mercedes kind of solid.

I gotta admit I feel safer in it than I did in the late, lamented Corolla.

Gas mileage is pretty good, too.

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noiretextatique

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Fri Apr-02-04 06:24 PM
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7. i don't know yet...and i suppose you are right

Edited on Fri Apr-02-04 06:25 PM by noiretblu

but i still hate SUVs :D
i'll stick with the swedish bricks. i have a 1988 Volvo 240 sedan now. i had a head-on collison in my old Volvo 142 several years ago and walked away with only a banged knee.

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mr_hat

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Fri Apr-02-04 05:59 PM
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2. Land Rovers aren't really SUVs, although they're used as such >

by the SUV-buying segment. Land Rovers pre-date the SUV scourge by a good 60 years and are (or were) truly utility vehicles.

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Fri Apr-02-04 06:04 PM
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3. last 2 SUV crashes i saw the SUV was on its side by itself.

the driver had turned to sharp and rolled it. they are unsafe.

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Asteroid

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Fri Apr-02-04 06:12 PM
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4. Glad to hear everybody is OK

Being tossed around a vehicle not knowing where or when it is going to stop. When I lived in California with my sister we would hear all the time about big SUV's that would get pushed off the road on windy days going down the steep canyons of the coastal highway.

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TreasonousBastard

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Fri Apr-02-04 06:17 PM
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5. I wonder if...

Land Rovers are still any good in the African veldt? The new ones seem a little sissified. I hear rumblings that real explorers are getting Toyotas now.

Years ago I was driving a lot of Army trucks, and they were OK in the woods, fording streams, climbing hills... all sorts of things. There is, however, a reason why a lot of them had those winches on the front. We used the winches a lot.

Used to spin out all the time on cobblestoned streets, though, and they had a real bad habit of flipping on the Autobahns and mountain switchbacks.

I don't miss large all wheel drive vehicles at all. Not a bit.

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