When I lived over there I watched a movie about how the European car
manufacturers design their cars with the pedestrian in mind.
Here it is how it goes:
The front of the car is designed to hit the pedestrian somewhere in the knee
area and then roll the body on the hood. If the speed is higher, the angle of
the windshield is designed to roll the body to the top of the car...direct
impact is avoided by all means. So I am not surprised that the deer would have
been in the front seat...
The town I live in here in CT is considered a suburbia of New York by some and
last summer we had a bear roaming around. It got chased by a lot of policemen
before it was able to arm itself against of being ran over...
Boris
Original message...
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:06:02 -0300
From: "John Hudson" <13874@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Grizzly in Jellystone?
A 260 pound bear was struck by the right front tire? Unless the car happened
to be motionless at the time my bet is that the car was a total write off
and the driver lucky to be alive. I struck a sizeable deer at 50mph driving
a VW Jetta on a highway in the mountains of southern British Columbia ten
years ago. The animal jumped out from the side of the roadway at night, hit
my front kerbside headlight, and caved in the front quarter of the car. The
sound of the impact was enormous and the deer was propelled about 25 feet
into the air. Fortunately the car's steering and braking survived. The
wrecker opined that had I struck the animal head on it would have ended up
through the windscreen on my lap inside the car and that the RCMP would have
been reporting another human motoring fatality.
jh
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