[prepend]

I was t-boned by a Chevy avalanche truck that was going 35 miles an hour.

Both cars were totaled. The avalanche driver and passenger were taken in away in stretchers. I and another passenger were fine, one passenger had a laceration from broken glass and one had their arm jammed.

The Saab was really amazingly designed for safety and everyone was shocked that I wasn’t paste as the center beam on the side was pushed in about two feet.

[DennisP]

Back in the early 90s my brother, a new driver, was driving my dad's 900 turbo on a wet road at 60mph, dodged a plastic bag on the road, spun out, and went into the trees. Totaled the car, dented every body panel, and snapped a ten-inch-diameter tree like a toothpick by ramming through it with his driver-side door. Only injury: passenger had a cramp in his calf from pressing his feet so hard into the floorboard as they spun through the trees.