So far I have been in two high-speed collisions. The first was when my land yacht sedan hit the rear of another one of equal size and weight that had been abandoned on the highway in the onsets of a snow storm resulting in a few days in the hospital for me and a week for my passenger. The second time was also in the winter. I hit a much smaller car than mine. I had some bruises but it put the other driver in the hospital for over two months. I hit that car in the side on a sharp turn and like the first if it were not for the slicker road surface that allows for the movement to lower g-force impacts because of ability to slide through the full impact,,, the larger size and weight vehicle would have easily overcome the smaller sized vehicle and the occupants would have been crushed much more severely and could have even been killed.

The one defining moment that made me obsessed about high-speed collisions and our safety was seeing my mother on a table all torn open, crushed and swollen and in almost unrecognizable condition in the hospital emergency room after she had driven head-on into a concrete divider.

It is truly my own experience and that of my own family and our friends that have also been in some life changing collisions that drives my ambitions to accomplish better vehicle collision safety.