Maybe the reference wasn't to car accidents. There were plenty of other
accidents and unsafe activities _inside_ those buses. ;)
Dave
chuck wrote:
> My wife was driving our young son in our '77 porche-powered ;-)
> VW Transporter Type II just outside of Woodstock NY back in the
> late '70s. Young kid runs a stop sign and broadsides our bus,
> throwing it head-on into a huge Buick wagon. The wife was fine.
> Son had a minor concussion. Bus was repairable -- new bits on
> the front and straighten passenger-side floor. The Buick was
> totaled, totally collapsed in the front. The couple in the front
> seats of the wagon were seriously hurt and spent weeks in
> hospital. The kid lost his license, went to court, and his
> insurance company paid out bundles.
>
> I know which vehicle I think was safest, and it wasn't the huge
> Umerican behemouth by a long shot.
>
> chuck
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