Brad's "big adventure"
So I was having a stressy morning at work and then my phone rang. It was Brad (I could tell that from the caller ID)...
From Brad...
On occasion, people will ask my why I bought the car I did (2000 Audi A6). Of course, it fit my desired parameters; namely, holds 5 adults comfortably, all wheel drive, and not slow. But, there was another reason, too: safety.
This is what an Audi A6 looks like when you hit a deer at 70 miles an hour:
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THAT is the reason you buy a car that's over-designed like a tank. I didn't just walk away from that accident, I drove away from it.
(Skip this paragraph if you don't want to know the details...) There doesn't appear to be any frame damage, either, just panels and a windshield to be replaced. I came around a curve, and there was the deer in the middle of my lane, crossing right to left. I swerved a bit to the left, which is what mitigated the damage. The deer's head hit the windshield, and the body wrapped around the passenger side.
From me...
You can't tell from the pic how pushed in the passenger side of the windshield is. :-/
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Whew! I'm glad Brad is okay. I'd hate to think what would have happened if he had been a less well-built car.
Holy crap! Thank God for solid cars (and good reflexes)!
Oh, MAN is he lucky! Wow. Glad he's ok.
It is great that he walked away from that and it shows that the way a car is designed is vital. Of course, so is the angle that you take the hit plus the force. I once wrote an article about angles and force for a physics quarterly journal. It was most interesting and I might have been able to use this photograph.
Again, it is nice to hear he is not injured.
I'm glad no one was injured. Is that deer hair still sticking out of the side?
Yep!
hole mole. Glad Brad's ok.
Glad that Brad's OK!!!!