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In article <mcampbel.724947751@eola.cs.ucf.edu>, mcampbel@cs.ucf.edu (Mike Campbell ) writes:
|> rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (that's me, folks) writes:
|> 
|> >No.  Nor yet in Scotland, Wales, or any part of Ireland (to the best
|> >of my knowledge).  Rationale (I've posted this once before, but it
|> >plainly didn't sink in):
|> 
|> >1) We don't get that much sun (we're a good bit further North than the
|> >   (even remotely) heavily-populated parts of N America, and we have
|> >   the gulf stream to contend with, which tends to give us moist
|> >   summers)
|> >2) Our roads tend to be rather narrow, so that people who drive with
|> >   an arm hanging out of the window lose their arm by interaction with
|> >   oncoming traffic rather than through cancer
|> 
|> Oh come on!  Surely the MIRRORS would be hit before the arms...  When we say
|> arms hanging out, we don't mean out parallel to the road!
|>
|> There'd be a LOT of missing mirrors and door handles, (and fenders, and
|> bumpers) is this was even remotely significant.

I have indeed lost a mirror as I drove along a road near my house.
However (as I made clear in my original post), item (2) isn't (shall
we say) quite as _serious_ as item (1).  I do know (at 2nd hand) of
one person who suffered in this way some long time ago.  My father
won't let anyone hang an arm out of the window of a car he's driving
for this reason.

Fwiw, I don't own a car (haven't since the early 70s).  My wife does,
and _its_ mirror would offer very little protection against the
determined disarming car coming in the opposite direction.  (Its door
handles are pretty much flush with the door...)
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