Insurance Institute Highway Safety -Top Safety Pick 2008 award winners.

WOW, I would have expected to find more American Cars in the list. The IIHS actually has crash safety figures for the last 10 years on all domestic and imported vehicles. The auto safety report below is for 2008 and previous years are below that as a link.

Many of the safety tests are for both 40mph frontal crashes and low speed crashes, here are a few note worthy ones…
Minivan bumper test results: Nissan Quest is by far the worst performer (2007)

Bumpers on luxury cars aren’t luxurious: worst is Infiniti G35; 4 of 11 cars sustain more than $10,000 damage in 4 minor bumps (2007)

most car bumpers don’t work in low-speed crashes; 3 cars sustain $4,500 damage in 6 mph test while old Ford Escort sustains little damage (2007)

And the 2008 car safety all around winners are…..

Large cars

Audi A6

Cadillac CTS

Ford Taurus with optional electronic stability control

Mercury Sable with optional electronic stability control

Volvo S80

Midsize cars

Audi A3

Audi A4

Honda Accord 4-door models

Saab 9-3

Subaru Legacy with optional electronic stability control

Midsize convertibles

Saab 9-3

Volvo C70

Small car

Subaru Impreza with optional electronic stability control

Minivans

Honda Odyssey

Hyundai Entourage

Kia Sedona

Midsize SUVs

Acura MDX

Acura RDX

BMW X3

BMW X5

Ford Edge

Ford Taurus X

Honda Pilot

Hyundai Santa Fe

Hyundai Veracruz built after August 2007

Infiniti EX35

Lincoln MKX

Mercedes M class

Nissan Murano

Saturn VUE built after December 2007

Subaru Tribeca

Toyota Highlander

Volvo XC90

Small SUVs

Honda CR-V

Honda Element

Subaru Forester 2009 models

Large pickup

Toyota Tundra

Below are the automobile safety, collision ant theft reports for the last years I could find from the auto insurance industry.

Click Here (its a pdf) 2003 to 2005 insurance safety report for auto collision, car crash injury and auto theft

I bet she float really well too and avoid drowning if her car ever flew into a lake. How giant bad boob jobs may save your life.

Now mind you, I did not get this story from a reputable source, but it seemed reasonable to me.

A Bulgarian car crash victim was saved by her humongous knockers during a car crash.

Elena Marinova, 24, from Sofia, was involved in a full frontal crash with another car in the northern city of Ruse. A police expert explained that the 40DD silicone implants absorbed the impact of the crash.

“They worked just like airbags - protecting the victim’s ribs and vital organs from damage”

Go figure, I always thought they were a bad idea, gotta say I may have been wrong.

For anyone who really likes vintage trains, here ya go. This is the 1903 flick called The Great Train Robbery from Thomas Edison. Its a great Vintage film with a wicked looking train… being robbed by some old west crooks.

Very, Very cool vintage western film

Here is some background info on The Great Train Robbery.

The Great Train Robbery was directed and photographed by Edwin S. Porter - a former Thomas Edison cameraman. It was a primitive one-reeler action picture, about 10 minutes long, with 14-scenes, filmed in November 1903 - not in the western expanse of Wyoming but on the East Coast in various locales in New Jersey (at Edison’s New York studio, at Essex County Park in New Jersey, and along the Lackawanna railroad).The plot was inspired by a true event that occurred on August 29, 1900, when four members of George Leroy Parker’s (Butch Cassidy) ‘Hole in the Wall’ gang halted the No. 3 train on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks toward Table Rock, Wyoming. The bandits forced the conductor to uncouple the passenger cars from the rest of the train and then blew up the safe in the mail car to escape with about $5,000 in cash.

moose accident with car, this poor moose got literally cut in half after this moose involved car accident. This is a serious animal involved wreck but luckily, the women driving was ok and there was no baby in the babyseat. This was the scene on a early June morning in northern Ontario Canada. more moose wrecks