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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Palm Beach, Florida, USA
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I hope they make it a standard test. I'm handling a three person fatality accident, right now, with the fourth critically injured. It was a head-on but slightly offset impact between a pickup and Chrysler minivan - very similar to this test. The kid driving the pickup truck walked away. Three generations of a wonderful family died at the scene.
Enough people get killed in accidents like this that cars should be built for them. Cars perform extremely well for the testing done now, but that just gives a false sense of security because so many accidents happen outside of the testing parameters. Some cars do build for it already, but you have to be an industry insider to know which is which. Too many careful families research the published safety data, buy a five star rated vehicle, and go away unaware that they're not as well protected as they thought.
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