Thanks Alan--always good to have actual cases.
tom
> [Original Message]
> From: Blue One Hundred <international_investor@yahoo.com>
> To: tom felts <tomfelts@earthlink.net>; Patton Dickson
<kpdii@earthlink.net>; <BlkBT7@aol.com>; <healeys@Autox.Team.Net>
> Date: 10/10/04 9:28:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Steering collumn
>
> Tom -
>
> I had a good friend who was struck in the chest by a
> similar type land rover steering column in 1980 when
> he had a head on collision at night with parked
> construction equipment (in Amman, Jordan, where I used
> to live).
>
> He survived the the accident and was in the hospital
> recuperating, when he coughed... and fell over and
> died. They found out later the steering column, which
> had impacted his sternum, also ripped his aorta. When
> he coughed it ripped open and he died instantly.
>
> I for one am considering either the cape kit or an MGB
> rack and pinion conversion.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alan
>
> '53 BN1 '64 BJ8
> --- tom felts <tomfelts@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > The potential is there, but does anyone know if
> > anyone actually has been
> > impaled by the steering column?
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