Two RVs hit head on - Hwy 49 in California

hohenwald48 wrote:
I suppose if crash worthiness is an issue you would do well to buy a class "C". At least the chassis is crash tested and rated and built by a vehicle manufacturer to meet some safety standards.

I know folks often make the statement that their motorhome has a steel framed driver area. I doubt light weight 2" square tubing is much stronger than 2x3 wood framing. It's certianly not as strong as an engineered passenger space in a class "C" with hard point mounted seatbelts and airbags.

I've seen class "A" seat belts attached with lag bolts in 2x4's.

I wonder when something will be done about all the cell phone/texting distracted drivers on the road these days? How many have to die before our legislators say "enough" to the cell phone lobby? It would only take a simple software patch to at least disable texting when a modern GPS enabled cell phone is going more than x MPH. But that might hurt phone sales for Apple and others.

Couple of things, yes Class C chassis have been crash tested, but I don't know about you, I've never seen a full Class C motorhome with the motorhome body and camping gear and fluids and propane and all crash tested. I'd me more than willing to wager that you are safer in a Class A than you are in a Class C simply because in a Class A you are sitting up above the vast majority of other vehicles on the road. If you are going to run head in into a medium size SUV, I personally would rather do it in a Class A where I'll be above the other vehicle, versus a Class C where I'll be down at the same level as the impacting vehicle.

Next point, restricting phones based on GPS speed will never happen as that means no phone use by passengers in the car, passengers in the bus, passengers on the train, etc.