[jims69camaro]

yeah, the way the unibody is constructed, all of the forces from a crash go around the driver's compartment, not into or through it. the hinges on the hood are made to break away so instead of coming through the windshield, it goes over it. same thing with the fenders and even the motor mounts are supposed to break away so the motor drops to the ground and goes under the car. after an accident like this, you can see all of the crumple zones - those that are engineered to give way instead of the forces reaching the driver or passenger. i can show you on a car where they are, before it's been in an accident and then you can compare them to a car that's been smashed.

i don't know how either of you survived smashing your heads around. hell, i don't even know how the motor survived. luck - divine intervention - being resilient - being drunk - whatever it was that saved your life happened for a reason. now, think about that for a minute. if your number was up, you wouldn't be here.