Vehicle design has a lot to do with injuries. Volvo, Saab and Mercedes Benz appear to lead the pack when it comes to safety design. ALL European cars, BTW. Seems the same goes for underride guard design for Semi tractor trucks. Again, it appears the Europeans have beat our a** at this game.

On another note, when it comes to safety and guard rail design on our highways, we suck big time. There is an old saying, "Speed doesn't kill, it's the sudden stop that will get you" and when crashing into our moronic designed guard rails, death or serious injury is virtually guaranteed.

Our interstate highway system was built by Dwight D Eisenhower's "Public Works Project" workers with a 50 year life span. Currently, we are at the 40 year marker and the bridges and roads are literally FALLING APART. It is said that Eisenhower was highly impressed with Hitler's Autobahn and used that idea to implement the Interstate road system in the United States. Only one problem: He failed to bring the German engineers to America to show us how to properly build a highway and thus we continue to pay the price for poor road design.

There is one winner in all of this though. Asphalt and paving companies make major $$$$$$ in lucrative government contracts performing continuous repair of Eisenhower's interstate highways. This writer is aware of at least one state in the union where more than a few politicians went to jail due to receiving kick backs from awarding asphalt and paving company contracts to "players".

Wait! There's a construction work zone up ahead, you better slow down!