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The video starts just as the truck driver begins to pull out and the impact occurs at the 4 second mark. As he goes through his turn, the van comes into view. Judge the distance, but I would say it is about 300' away. Take away the reaction time, eating up about 100 feet, and there was not enough distance remaining for the van to stop before impact. A "typical passenger car" is used in the above example of stopping distance/time, but this was a mini van, which could weight 700 to 1000 pounds more, increasing those distances and the time to stop.

1977 Century 1000/500, #5552, for those who keep track.

Car seats - My kids were born in 1980, 1981 ans 1984. Only the last one had to have a car seat when born. Safety standards were minimal in any of the seats available at that time. Their use was not mandatory nationwide until later. Dad's 1969 New Yorker was the first car we had that had seat belts in the back seat. My Uncle had a 1970 Chevy C-10 with a cap and brought his five kids up to NY from TX with 4 of them riding in the back. The number of times I rode in the back of an open pickup is too many to count. I also used to ride on the tailboard of speeding fire engines. I have cut seat belts off of plenty of dead bodies in wrecks and have personally walked away from more than one wreck where I was not wearing one. Worked a wreck one time where a Chevette hit a tree as wide as the car at high speed. The least injured of the five people inside was the one not belted in, who was ejected.

Under the current rules that President Trump is trying to change, they are counted in the census, but NOT identified as being illegally here. The left counted them as citizens in the 2020 census, changing the population of certain States to the point that it changed the number of US Representatives those States have in Congress and changing the population of districts that the left then gerrymandered to their advantage.

They should never have been included in the first place! Those here illegally should not be represented, they should be removed. Thank you, President Trump!

It happened in The Woodlands, TX, which is north of Houston. The ones I have seen were too high up for that to happen.

Nope, your wife is too! My wife and I will hit 47 years in December. She found me in the garage one day, crying. "What's wrong" she asked. I said "Remember that day your father caught us together and said that I could either marry you or go to jail?" She replied "Yes". I cried more, "I'd be getting out today!"

I have seen a few of these in action at some fire stations I have visited. They are impressive!