Subject:         '92 740 Wagon Saved My Family
   Date:         Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:08:42 -1000
   From:        Humiston Randall T PHNS
     To:         ozbrick

My wife was driving our four year old 740 turbo wagon one summer day on
Kamehameha Highway outside Pearl Harbor Naval Station when a Toyota sedan
jumped the median and hit her head-on.  Both cars were doing about 45 mph at
the time.  My wife suffered some contusions from the air bag deployment and
that is it.  My daughter, who was 5 at the time, was riding in a car seat in
the middle of the back seat.  The sudden stop of the collision caused her
feet to fly up and she lightly scraped one heel when her feet came back down
and it hit the edge of the child car seat.  The car was a total wreck.  From
the firewall forward there was nothing left.  Fortunately, the other driver
had only minor injuries as well as he was wearing a seatbelt and had a
surfboard in the car which prevented him from being ejected or jostled too
much.

Needless to say, we went right out and purchased another Volvo wagon.  Today
I pick up our 3rd Volvo, a new V70.  I don't let my family risk driving
anything else but Volvo's.

Randy Humiston