Airbags
She's fine, but my mother was in a serious accident this morning on the way to my house, when a car tried to cross the highway in front of her and she hit it at 100km/hr. She is pretty sure she's only alive because her (now written off) 2001 Toyota Camry had a front airbag, and the other driver is perhaps only alive because his car had side airbags. It's amazing to me that you can be largely uninjured hitting anything at that speed.
She says she doesn't even remember the accident except for the noise - one moment she saw the other car stopped at the intersection, and next thing she knew the airbag was gently smoking and deflating and she was cataloguing where it hurt. 8 hours later she was discharged from the hospital. She said she spent most of her waiting time in the hospital telling the staff that if they didn't have a car with airbags, they should try to get one. So, I'm passing that on. My car has front airbags only and that, plus other safety-related considerations I don't know about yet, is something I'll be thinking about when I change it over. Possibly safety is more important than colour!
She says she doesn't even remember the accident except for the noise - one moment she saw the other car stopped at the intersection, and next thing she knew the airbag was gently smoking and deflating and she was cataloguing where it hurt. 8 hours later she was discharged from the hospital. She said she spent most of her waiting time in the hospital telling the staff that if they didn't have a car with airbags, they should try to get one. So, I'm passing that on. My car has front airbags only and that, plus other safety-related considerations I don't know about yet, is something I'll be thinking about when I change it over. Possibly safety is more important than colour!