When I first got my Spitfire, some local friends of mine tried to disuade me
from driving it. They had a friend who had a spitfire locally, and had
"suped it up".
Including a roll-bar. Well, while driving the car pretty hard on a local
stretch
he flipped the car and broke his neck, disabling himself and he's now
confined to
a wheel chair.
I didn't get the first-hand account or what actually caused the
dibilitating damage.
Did he have his seatbelt on? I don't know. Was he thrown from the car? Or
was the
violent action of the flip, while his body was still strapped to the seat
what did it?
I don't know.
The last I heard, about the only thing left that was salvagable was the
roll-bar.
But as much as I've asked around, I've never heard of anyone in a fatality,
but have
heard lots of reports of "totals" turning the cars into scrap. They are
metal..they
are NOT easy to flip. (He must have taken it off road to flip it, in my
opinion).
-Terry
At 09:24 AM 3/14/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
>This brings up a curious thought. I have read the descriptions of
>'encounters' with large vehicles. I've had one myself. No one was injured
>beyond being bruised. Is this just that we don't hear about the more
>serious injuries or is there some kind of LBC voodoo going on here? Is this
>lack of serious injury the norm? Don't want to get gruesome or anything,
>though.
>Terry
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