why i drive a suburban...

[Dekard]

http://www.break.com/index/truck_crashe ... _cars.html

[housil]

German video of ~1975 to demonstrade how dangerous a traffic jam could be if a tired truck driver approaches.

Also see "Tod im Nebel" (Death in fog), the most horrible car mass crash with 200 cars(!) on a German Interstate in 1990, cause by a truck...

Part 1

Part 2


I had to respond a couple of years ago to a crashed US Army Convoy while heavy snow on our Interstate.

If a truck crashes in your car with 80km/h with a weight of 40 tons, you will die. If in a Volkswagen Rabbit or in a Suburban.
I see it "every day".

But that´s why I bought me a SUV (BMW X3) also. Maybe I will survive where others died for sure...

[Garron]

I drive a 1998 Ford KA*... Small tiny little midget of a car 1.3 litre engine and an Euro NCAP rating of about 2.5 stars.... most modern cars had 4-5 stars. Around where I live a SUV is pretty impratical as the roads are narrow and often lots of cars parked either side so its tight in my car let alone an SUV.
I did see a Hummer (Civilian type) around near me. Its as wide as a bus and drinks more petrol so not good in the UK with our prices on Gas (Eventhough they have droped nearly 40p a Litre now... 89p from £1.39)

Gaz