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Re: Bumper Height, ABS, Air Bags, and Pseudo-Safety

To: mgs@autox.team.net, em92ssb@brunel.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Bumper Height, ABS, Air Bags, and Pseudo-Safety
From: jurrasm@genesis.torrco.com (Mark Jurras)
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 08:22:11 -0400
> 
> > My college roomate rolled me over in his car because he was trying to
> > negotiate a curve with the wheels locked up. ABS would have saved him.
> > (If I were driving I would have saved us). The accident involved the
> > high speed of twenty-five(25) MPH and a snow covered curve in NY state.
> 
> Call me stupid, but what difference would  ABS have made that would have
> prevented you from rolling the car? Did you hit something that you would
> not have hit if you had been able to steer properly?
> 
> Stephen Brook
> 311 Faraday
> SEP Level 3 Pigeon Holes, Tower A
> http://http2.brunel.ac.uk:8080/~em92ssb/

We were driving through the Berkshires (mountain range) in upstate New
York. It had snowed about 1/2 inch the night before. As we were
ascending a hill at 25 MPH my roommate decided that we were going too
fast to make the curve at the top. When he applied the brakes the front
wheels locked up so when he turned the wheel we continued straight. He
panicked and pushed harder on the brake locking the rear wheels and
stalling the engine. We crossed the road into oncoming traffic lane
(there was none luckily) the front end hit a snow bank, the back spun
around 180 when the back wheels hit the snow bank the car eased over on
its side then on to the roof. I rolled the window down (UP) and bumped
my head when I released the seat belt and climbed out.

Now to answer your question, If he had ABS the wheels would not have
locked and we would have gone around the curve. If I had been driving I
would have taken my foot off the brake.


- -Mark "Always wears a seatbelt" Jurras

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