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soul2share -> RE: At least they don't work at the airport (12/19/2007 5:59:58 PM)
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Sorry...missed the second link. This is just a sad story all the way around, I feel for the family involved.
Read the article, looked at the caption under the photograph, it indicated that she was under the dashboard, covered by the air bag. It was a Grand Marquis...not sure how familiar you are with them, but when you are sitting in the front seat, you are almost sitting in an "L" shape.....your legs are almost at a right angle to your body, (my parents have one, it was impossible for me to get used to driving it because it was such a different position from my full sized truck), and if the impact was hard enough, and it sounds like it was pretty severe, the whole seat itself could have moved forward after breaking loose from the underseat morrings. The vehicle comes standard w/60/40 front seats, so just because the driver's seat was intact doesn't mean that her's wasn't. And the airbags on the passenger side are pretty big, due to the fact you can seat 3 in the front seat. Going through the wall of a building with no signs of breaking prior to impact had to have been a pretty significant impact. Even on a frontage road, and I'm guessing as to whether or not they were based on info from the story, people still tend to do at least 55 mph. Even surface streets mean 45-50 mph.
This still doesn't defend the fact that no one looked, even tho the driver said he was alone.....that's like basic academy training for cops, and I know fire fighters are well-trained in motor vehicle accidents. It's just an explanation of the dynamics of the accident, how they MIGHT have been...it's been a long time since I actually did accident reconstruction.
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