In article <As6dnUtJlekvrtDUnZ2dnUVZ_qXinZ2d@ptd.net>,
"Mike Hunter" <mikehunt2@lycos/com> wrote:

> You mean like making the bigger more powerful cars trucks and SUVs that
> American buyers WANTED to buy

yeah, because having all that steel around you is SO SAFE.

Right?

I mean, that's the under the radar marketing message.

Safe, eh?

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Child dies from crash that injured 6 others
Saturday, December 20, 2008 3:07 AM
By Jeb Phillips
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
A child died last night after a head-on crash on the Far West Side that
injured six others, including four other children.

The child was riding, unrestrained, in the front passenger seat of 1999
GMC Suburban vehicle driven by Christopher Belmonte, 43, of Grove City,
according to the Franklin County sheriff's office. Four children were
riding in the back seat.

The Suburban was traveling southbound on Norton Road, south of Johnson
Road, at 6:50 p.m. when it drove left of the center line and was struck
by 1995 Mercury Sable traveling northbound.

The child in the front seat was transported to Doctors Hospital and
pronounced dead. The children in the back seat were taken to Nationwide
Children's Hospital and are in stable condition. Their names have not
been released.

Belmonte, the Suburban's driver, was taken to Mount Carmel West hospital
in stable condition. Dennis Wilburn, 33, of Columbus, was driving the
Sable and also was taken to Mount Carmel West hospital in stable
condition.

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Yes sir, with all that steel around him, he was just as safe as could
be. One child died, and the others remain in critical but stable
condition.

Meanwhile, the guy in the Sable came out of it relatively cleanly.