Glad you're OK, John. I keep my brights on in the day and low beams at nite
to make sure people can see me. But some are still blind....
I hope you're doing some macros of the flowers!
tOM
On Sunday, September 22, 2002 at 14:35, siddiq <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "Re: [OM] [OT] Doin' the Airbag Bash" saying:
> 9/22/2002 9:40:43 AM, "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Hello List,
> >Been catching up on the mail. At least I've been able to keep the deluge
> >downloaded most of the time and been reading bits and pieces. Gary Edwards
> >knows basically what happened as I advised him by email likely about the
> >time he was traveling to Indianapolis.
> >
> >Did the "Airbag Bash" just after noon on Wednesday, Sept. 4th at a traffic
> >signal intersection less than a mile from home. With light having just
> >turned green no more than about 3-4 seconds, an oncoming light truck turned
> >left into me as I was going straight through the
> >intersection. Result: head-on collision. Middle of solid metal truck
> >bumper impales itself on the left front of my large 4-Dr sedan.
>
> <snip>
>
> Glad to hear you're OK; the vehicle did it's job by sacrificing its body for
> yours. Regarding what hit your right knee, could it be the bunch of keys? All
> modern cars except Porsches and Saabs have the
> ignition on the right side of the dash or steering column, both places that
> might be impacting during a collision, pretensioners or no. Or a column
> mounted shift lever (if so equipped).
>
> I've seen more than a fair share of red light runners, particularly at one
> horrible intersection (anyone in my area, the I10 E onramp by the LLUMC).
>
> Anyway, great to hear you're ok.
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