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To: muawiyah
Take it from me launching through the windshield of a Studebaker cut me up bad.

It could have been a lot worse for you. Happily, it wasn't fatal.

As to cutting you up, I imagine that the windshield 'glass' was different at that time. Although you did say that you were launched through the windshield.

92 posted on 07/03/2011 9:55:52 AM PDT by He Rides A White Horse ((unite))
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To: He Rides A White Horse
It was safety glass ~ just like today, but not as good. Still the same glass, plastic film, glass structure.

You get cut on the edges ~ modern glass breaks up in far smaller pieces ~ and I suspect it's not as hard.

Funniest thing is while they were stitching me up another guy was brought in who'd flown off his motorcycle ~ he had similar wounds.

The docs let him lie there on a gurney near my own listening to me moan and groan with every stitch.

Months later I discovered he was a guy I'd gone to highschool with and he and I lived in the same dormitory. He was upset that the docs let him hear me groan ~ said that was torture.

He never again rode without a helmet and full leathers and heavy boots.

95 posted on 07/03/2011 10:04:45 AM PDT by muawiyah
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