Tiger Woods in serious car accident

[AAA]

lol

[Dennis S]

I thought he drove a Buick.

[deckeda]

new sponsor ... new car ...

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wowzer wrote:
but it does beg the question as to what in the world he was doing leaving the house at 2am. His wife broke the back window of his SUV with a golf club to get him out. I wonder where she got a golf club? ;-)

Maybe she was chasing him out of the house with it.

Lots of unanswered questions, with a lot of room for wild speculation.

[Mac1337]

It happens all the time. You back out of your driveway at 2am to go get a gallon of milk and next thing you know you are upside down on top of a fire hydrant.

[Mac-A-Matic]

The National Enquirer (or similar publication) will have the REAL story...

Or at least one that's enjoyable to read.

[Dennis S]

I wonder what club she used.

[space-time]

C(-)ris wrote:
[quote=DavidS]
In high school, I hydroplaned around a corner into a fire hydrant. I was driving my 1988 Chevy Impala. I knocked the fire hydrant off it's base (yes, water sprayed out but to the side, not up into my car), put a nice sized dent in my front bumper, and took out the grill above the bumper. Other than the cosmetic issues, my car was fine. This was obviously before airbags.

Your lucky, you could probably drive away from that accident. These days your dashboard would be destroyed, you would need 2 new airbags, a new front bumper( because it is cheap crap plastic) and the medics would have had to come to fix your face from getting hit by the airbag.
are you saying that 20 years ago cars were safer than today's models?

[C(-)ris]

space-time wrote:
[quote=C(-)ris]
[quote=DavidS]
In high school, I hydroplaned around a corner into a fire hydrant. I was driving my 1988 Chevy Impala. I knocked the fire hydrant off it's base (yes, water sprayed out but to the side, not up into my car), put a nice sized dent in my front bumper, and took out the grill above the bumper. Other than the cosmetic issues, my car was fine. This was obviously before airbags.

Your lucky, you could probably drive away from that accident. These days your dashboard would be destroyed, you would need 2 new airbags, a new front bumper( because it is cheap crap plastic) and the medics would have had to come to fix your face from getting hit by the airbag.
are you saying that 20 years ago cars were safer than today's models?
I'm saying that while they may be safer in certain collisions, there are others types of lower speed collisions where older cars fair much better for both the occupants and the repair bill.

For example, a 15 mph hit on a fire hydrant with a 20 year old Impala vs a brand new Impala. On the old car you would have a dent on the bumper and be fine. On a new car you would have to replace half the front end, your dash board from airbag damage, the bags themselves, and probably the windshield because those parts all get damaged from the airbags. In no way did those airbags make the car any safer. There was no risk of getting whiplash or hitting anything since the fire hydrant gets ripped out of the ground and doesn't slow the car down that much.