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In dc.driving Scott M. Kozel <kozelsm@richmond.infi.net> wrote:

[Lots of examples]

: They were as dead as a doornail.

: Social Darwinism at work.

Maybe. Not always, though. I know of a well-publicized case where a man
was riding in the back seat of a convertible. In front of hundreds of
witnesses, he suffered a horrible death from head and neck injuries, and
another passenger suffered life-threating inuries, even though the car was
travelling no faster than 20 mph at the beginning of the accident, and
when the man died it was travelling no faster than 5 mph. Of course, he
wasn't wearing a seatbelt. The driverwas, however, and survived, which of
course was little consolation to the victim or his family. I suppose one
could conclude that convertibles are unsafe, even when the driver is a law
enforcement agent, as was the case here. 

We can all learn from this, and start legislation to ban convertibles.
Fortunately a dressmaker named Abraham Zapruder filmed the whole thing for
our review.

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