No, there's no change, most people are a result of accidents usually by failing to take preventative maintenace precautions or not pulling out on time.

J

for a 3 point turn. Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

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I've seen the aftermath of this injury, when it's come in to work
It's not nice!

Hopefully, after watching this image people would stop doing this stupid thing.

It also behoves drivers not to drive with both hands around the 12 o'clock position on the steering wheel. Often seen in slow moving traffic.

A front or rear end shunt, steering wheel airbag goes off, the two hands become fists that whack the driver right in the face. Tim

Freelander 2 HSE i6 Stornoway Grey with Alpaca & Tundra interior
Driven many miles in:
2 FL2s
1 Range Rover P38
4 Range Rover Classics
Many military LWB & 1/2 ton Lightweight Series IIA & III

I had a low speed shut in my BMW - the side of each thumb had painful friction burns from the airbag, plus the airbag hitting my head completely stunned me for what seemed like ages but was probably less than 10 secs.
I hate to think what would have happened if my head had contacted the steering wheel. Jules

Yes, that's the typical after effect of airbags deploying Jules,
we we're told to expect a certain amount of concusion along
with any other injuries if attending an RTA.
Plus it does not take much to set them off a small gentle slide on some ice
into something solid is enough. DAVE.
I.A.M. F1rst Driver.
Gone 2003 Discovery TD5 Auto,
Gone 1986 Defender 90 Station Wagon
Gone 1984 Range Rover 3.5 Vogue Manual.
Gone 1970 Series 11A/3 SWB 3.5 V8 Hybrid
Gone 1964 Series 11A LWB Van
Gone 1966 Series 11A SWB Van
Gone 1964 Series 11A LWB Station Wagon,

Jimboland wrote:

No, there's no change, most people are a result of accidents usually by failing to take preventative maintenace precautions or not pulling out on time.

J

I never drive with my thumbs inside the rim of the steering wheel, in event of an unavoidable collision I just let go, fortunately this has only happened once when I was rammed on a roundabout by by a driver who said he couldn't see due to a van alongside him, he rammed my nearside front wheel and straightened it, had my thumbs been inside the rim I would certainly had two broken thumbs and a lousy Christmas. It wasn't in a Freely. my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
2012 HSE SD4 In Orkney Grey now gone, best car ever.

My dad was a trolley bus driver back in the 1950s and he told me that one of the first things trainee drivers were taught was not to put your thumbs inside the rim of the steering wheel.


Off topic: why don't we go back to trolley buses, they are electric and quiet and could replace the most polluting vehicles in our towns - deisel buses.

J

Better still…….
Horse drawn trams

Off topic: why don't we go back to trolley buses, they are electric and quiet and could replace the most polluting vehicles in our towns - deisel buses.

J[/quote]
Because for some reason they prefer trams, but all the new trams don't seem to go up any steep hills like trolley buses did, Well the ones in Brighton did. my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
2012 HSE SD4 In Orkney Grey now gone, best car ever.

New long trams don't appear to be able to go up steep hills where old short trams can. If you want to see this for yourself go to Lisbon where they have new long trams on the main streets but they can't go up the steep winding streets of the older parts of the city where the old short trams, electricos as the locals call them, get up the steep streets with no problems and some of the streets are very steep. in Lisbon there are some funiculars where it is too steep for the old trams and even most cars and other vehicles.

Lisbon; well worth a vist - good trams, good food and good wine from about £0.75 a bottle.

J