well, i guess i was wrong about the extent of damage my neighbors wife had been subject to in her accident. There were some internal injuries that did not seem to serious at the time my neighbor spoke to me about her accident. She went into surgery late yesterday afternoon and was pronounced dead last night at 8pm.

please drive carefully. with all these safety things to aid us in surviving an accident, the one thing that will actually work in saving your life is your brain.

regards,
brian

My heart goes out to your neighbor. Life is so fragile and the greatest tragedy is always born by those left behind.
Hope he and the rest of his family get through this okay.
Geoff.

One of the documentary channels had a very interesting story a while back about the improvements in car safety over the years and the way it has changed our driving. In summary, everyone has their sense of what is safe and what is dangerous, and most people will drive within their sense of safety. Albeit towards the limit of that safety. The theory goes that as our cars are made safer (ABS, Airbags, etc.) that we as drivers absorb that extra amount of safety and drive more agressively because we think we are safer. The result is something of a nullification of the technological strides made in car safety. One British driving instructor cheekily suggested that instead of airbags in our steering wheels we should have metal spikes that jutted out at us in the event of a collision. That would definitely make for safer drivers!!

Let us all remember this lesson when enjoying the euphoria of our Quattros and the peace of mind we feel in driving well performing, well engineered and safe cars. The best safety feature in any car is the driver and his/her decision making.

brake at the same rate as everyone else. We all must be very careful with our high performance all-wheel-drive cars; and hope that others do the same. For the woman spoken of above, I extend my deepest condolences to her husband and family.