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Ian Epperson
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:22 pm    Post subject: Vehicle risks Reply with quote
SFGate is running an AP story about the risk of death in a car:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/01/18/national/a152832S32.DTL

The big news is that men or more likely to die in a wreck than women, but the best part of the story:

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As for men being more likely to die than women? McCartt and Fischbeck said men take more risks, speed more, drink and drive more.

"They do stupider things," said Fischbeck, a former military pilot who has twin toddlers and a "totally unsafe" 1974 Volkswagen Thing.
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Towel Rail
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
LOL, Things get no respect! Laughing

(Except at Barrett-Jackson, apparently.)
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
http://www.epp.cmu.edu/httpdocs/people/bios/fischbeck.html

someone email him and invite him on here!
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well, if men speed more, then he's driving the right auto. Can't speed too much in a Thing.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
FreakCitySF wrote:
someone email him and invite him on here!


Done.
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