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Originally Posted by WVOtoGO
Bingo. Now, we actually have a real winner.
Best line of the thread so far.
To think that one can judge the overall safety of a car from its mass...
Or from a photo...
Or from the results of a single accident you happen to know about...
Or who built it, for that matter...
is nuts.
- S
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Quite.
Weight is a factor in safety but not the only one. There are some heavy cars built in the 70's that were not nearly as safe as some econoboxes of say the early 90's.
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Originally Posted by aklim
My C280 popped off the side airbag. I had a Semi Pubic Rami Fracture, Stable Sacral fracture and a little orange piss. The other girl had a few broken ribs, arms and spent a week in the hospital.
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Different angles of impact can't really be compared, let alone comparing the bone density and strength of a hip bone to a rib bone.