[Jeff Higgins]

Sure glad your buddy is relatively unhurt, Denis. Close calls like this really drive home just how thin of a thread we are all hanging from... just one brief moment of indiscretion, be it our own or someone else' can change our lives. Or end them. All the best to him for a speedy recovery and no lasting complications; healing is never fun.

Aren't these "headlight to headlight" collisions one of the newer focuses of the NTSB? Seems I saw a program on how they had concentrated for so long on dead-nuts square, full across the front head-ons, and had neglected this kind of "barely overlapping" collision, which are far more common. It looks like the BMW did quite well, considering the likely closing speed. Like you point out, it almost certainly saved his life.