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Well, I figured SOMEBODY needed to like the post.
If memory serves, the reason Volvo developed such a reputation for crash safety decades ago is they decided to build a car designed so that passengers would survive a crash with a reindeer. Too many back roads in Sweden and there were too many human fatalities due to crashes with reindeer. A friend of mine got broadsided by a deer. Deer jumped out of the bushes and clobbered the passenger side. Totaled the car. And that was broadside, not a head on collision.
Which is not to say that I would put up a bounty.
If memory serves, the reason Volvo developed such a reputation for crash safety decades ago is they decided to build a car designed so that passengers would survive a crash with a reindeer. Too many back roads in Sweden and there were too many human fatalities due to crashes with reindeer. A friend of mine got broadsided by a deer. Deer jumped out of the bushes and clobbered the passenger side. Totaled the car. And that was broadside, not a head on collision.
http://www.ircobi.org/wordpress/downloads/irc15/pdf_files/42.pdfThe Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) reports that in the USA during 2000–2007, about 1,500 people died in road crashes involving animals a
Which is not to say that I would put up a bounty.
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