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One very lucky man in Corvette vs truck crash
Hard to believe he lived through this even though he had the presence of mind to duck at the last second.
Lucky Corvette driver survives trailer crash that experts call too common | Motoramic - Yahoo! Autos 
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BS! He didn't duck, he bent over to kiss his ass goodbye...
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If I had been stuck in that car until someone came to get me out I would have died of claustrophobia. It's one of my worse nightmares.
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Good reason not to tailgate a semi! or text for that matter.
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Pretty sad when an 18 wheeler can out brake a corvette.
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If it wasn't for Jayne Mansfield he'd be dead.
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I had to look up mandoline.
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That crash test footage within the article is amazing. I never realized how wimpy those guards are on the trailers.
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The last line of the report:
best to avoid tailgating, and hope if you too have an accident, there's time to duck.
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I was taught in Drivers' Ed. over four decades ago, if you hit another vehicle in the rear, you screwed up somehow. It only takes a second's inattention. Stay safe out there Les
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It is interesting that we immediately look to the tractor/trailer unit as a contributor to the potential seriousness of the accident...
I hate to sound like a hardass, but the Corvette driver failed to notice an object directly in his path that was 70 feet long, 14 feet high, and 8.5 feet wide... He would have simply driven THROUGH my 911. angela
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Yes, we need more laws and regulation to protect us from ourselves.
 And if the trailer had a tailight out the Vette driver will be suing the trucking company.
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Jan Berry of Jan and Dean gorked himself the same way by running his '66 Corvette into the back of a stopped truck. "He wrote a song about dead man's curve and then it happened to him." --Brian Wilson
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I wonder what the outcome would have been if he ran into the back of mine.
I think he'd fare better with one that gives as opposed to one that doesn't. I realize that mine is a lot lower then the one he hit but, it would take a lot to bend mine. 
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I am just gald he hit a truck, and not some car full of people. He did not hurt that truck much. I am sure the truck driver was not hurt.
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