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Subject: You really blew this post!

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Oropan

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Date Posted: 13:50:17 04/16/07 Mon
In reply to: jw 's message, "SUV's are worse than small cars in side impacts" on 12:41:47 04/16/07 Mon

Obviously you flunked physics 101!
An object moving at a set speed has the same impact force no matter what it hits. And the less protection the worse the result to the impacted object. Example: Tie a brass ball on a string and set an egg in it's path as it swings at it. The egg is crushed. Now repeat replacing the egg with a large cement ball with steel reenforcing. Not much happens to the cement ball.

> Sen. Corzine was injured in a side impact, when the
>suv smashed into the guard rail, it is quite possible
>that a lighter car would not have been penetrated as
>much because it has less force per area on the door.
>Also, in a small car, people do not have the false
>illusion of security that they have in suv's when in
>fact suv's are overall as dangerous as small cars in
>the average accident, not just one class of accidents.
>
>
> This points out the need for the seat belt law, and
>it highlights how many lives have been saved and
>damage avoided by government regulation. Even those
>who make the laws should not consider themeselves
>immune to laws that are for their protection, no one
>is immune to the laws of physics.
>
>>riding arond the NJ freeway without your seatbelts on
>>takes the cake of stupidity.
>>PSSST...he was in a large SUV!!!!! If he was in the
>>kidde cars that these same Dem politicians want us to
>>drive, he would be dead now!

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Subject	Author	Date
You obviously did not read the post!	jw	19:51:47 04/17/07 Tue
Your theory doesn't hold water -- Oropan, 05:53:13 04/18/07 Wed Re: Your theory doesn't hold water -- jw, 19:00:35 04/18/07 Wed GEEEZZZ! He was on his way to meet with Imus!!!! -- Oropan, 09:21:05 04/20/07 Fri