[TML] Joel brings the New Year in with a bang!

[Michael Jenkins]

On 04/01/2008, traveller at dhimaging.com.au <traveller at dhimaging.com.au> wrote:
>
> I've secured financing for another vehicle (2nd hand, but in great shape and
> with a 3-year bumper-to-bumper warranty) and I just drove it to the house
> about an hour ago.  I went VERY slowly and when I went past the place I
> wrecked the Jeep, I was amazed.  If I had gone off the other side of the
> road, there was a 20-meter fall-off and it was wall-to-wall pine trees.  No
> way would I have survived.  And to be honest, everyone keeps telling me that
> normally if a person is ejected from a vehicle when it's involved in a very
> bad accident, they don't survive to talk about it.

>From the experience of people I've known directly - you're likely to
be killed or suffer severe head trauma when thrown from a vehicle.
It's quite frequent that a victim ends up under the car or the car
rolls over them. That never ends well.

Always wear a seatbelt.

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Regards,
Michael Jenkins
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