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[I-Man]

Yes I have been overseas and travelled the USA pretty extensively the last 29 years.

Just this morning I had conversation with Paramedic and a "cutter" regarding this same issue and they too say the same thing as I posted- The roadways, especially youngest drivers, are worse than ever as are accidents at younger ages. Police officers I have talked with say the same thing.

The "cutter" was the man they call in for dead victims of car crashes to simply cut bodies out for the M.E., and he was telling us about 2 girls the other night (1-16yrs with new license and other 15yrs as passenger) who were driving Honda Civic too fast for road conditions and slammed in back of an SUV. The SUV got minor damage, but the Civic was smashed from back to front with literally parts of the victims scattered throughout the mangled mess and roadway he had to cut out and Paramedics clean up...

Word from all of them is forget the press and green talk or gas mileage issues as they are not that great if a person truly takes good mechanical care & maintenance of any vehicle; you are safer in larger vehicle as they see it, especially those with full frames as many mid sized cars even are going back to Uni-Body frame or false frame which is less strength oevrall of the vehicle should it crash.