micro car?

[Tony Griffiths]

Did th wagon driver wear a seat belt? It is a very long way to fall? Most persons are afraid on a single storey roof.
I can recall when mikmen still delivered with horse and cart in Wellington NZ. Many houses are off footpaths above or below raod level. The horse would walk itself to where the deliverer would re appear. In the event of a runaway not sure if the driver or horse was charged.
With climate change adjustments imminent it is remarkable what can be done with 2 hp, less than the output of a 2 bar heater.

Hi Bob, the chances of a seat belt being used are zero. Some many years ago I was speaking to the director of UK Health and Safety and he told me that one of their latest projects was a fencing system to stop drivers from falling off the top deck of car transporters. I enquired how many times this had happened, and he said that in the last ten years there had been four fatalities and some serious injuries. He explained that the whole concept was much more complicated than at first thought as - if I remember correctly - the wire fencing and supports had to self-erecting and collapse and, of course, strong enough to stop a drunken 25-stone driver intent on suicide. A couple of weeks later I was at a car body shop where the owner showed me a brand new Aston Martin where the (very drunken) driver of a transporter had managed to drive it sideways off from the top deck to land, on its side, on one of those rather strong cast-iron telephone junction boxes. The car was bent like a banana and written off by the insurance. He reckoned he could fix it like new - and make a small fortune.