freak accident update

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <Pine.BSI.3.95.961123163444.1978A-100000@mv.mv.com> Trisha Bethen writes:

> Needless to say, my son is shocked.  And I'm not sure whether another type
> of car would have faired better or worse on this one......any ideas?

Mental injury is just as real as physical injury.  A shocked son is, however, 
infinitely preferable to a dead one.

Some people win lotteries - some get killed in freak accidents.  You have the 
misfortune of a freakishly expensive trivial accident - but you could equally 
have had (as others have had) the situation of no material vehicle damage and a 
dead son.  Ridiculously unlikely - but so is what happened to you.

I don't think, in incidents as unique as this, that it's worthwhile to compare 
one make or model of vehicle against another.

--
 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club