Two RVs hit head on - Hwy 49 in California
Two RVs collided head on while traveling on Hwy 49 near Grass Valley today. Single driver in the smaller RV and a couple in the larger one....Prayers for the families...Dennis Story
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rgatijnet1 wrote:Effy wrote:
Seeing these accidents and understanding the lack of crashworthiness reinforces some of the motives for selling ours.
No one needs a reason for selling their RV but a quick search of the internet turned up more people dying in wheelchair accidents than RV accidents. Just saying, there is no safe form of transportation.
I don't own a wheelchair - yet.
And armchair analysis like this is really misleading. There are far more people in wheelchairs and those people obviously already have health concerns - hence the wheelchair. So of course there would be more wheelchair accidents. It's apples and oranges.
Anytime analysis is meaningful it involves correlation. So the only way to compare crash worthiness of an RV is to compare it to the same number and type of crash as other passenger vehicles. In that instance, without even looking at data (if it exists) I can tell you confidently that RV's will be worse every time. I don't even think there are crash test standards for RV's at all.
