Quote:Still, I'd rather be sitting in a vehicle that has more than a seat back between me and a vehicle plowing into my vehicle. 

 

Smart cars are supposedly very safe, but I don't know a lot of people who'd be willing to test that assertion.

 

There was a serious accident in the area on Friday involving a Pontiac G8 ramming into the back end of a GMC Sierra crew cab.  The G8 was doing somewhere between 70 and 100 mph on a road where the speed limit is 35 mph.  I was just getting out of my truck at a store on the other side of the intersection where this took place.  It sounded like a bomb went off.   The truck was destroyed, but the occupants, including small children, survived the accident.  They were seriously injured, but lived.  Had they been in a Smart car, I'm betting the outcome would have been far more tragic.