My friend's empeg survived this:


Fortunately, so did he and his girlfriend without much damage despite the car rolling end-over-end. I was put to the task of taking the empeg and other valuables out of the car yesterday. To my utter surprise, the empeg was still securely seated in the sled and powers-up just fine!

His Garmin GPS and empeg remote are in some field probably never to be found again. Obviously, that's not the worst thing that could have happened.

So glad to hear they're OK (or at least are going to be OK). Three cheers for modern crash protection.

Wow. It's always sorta scared me that the empeg would come out and konk you in the skull in a situation like that. Pretty amazing!

When I got rear ended by some old lady going 40mph my empeg went flying out if the dash and ended up in between the front seats.

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Glad the occupants of the above vehicle not only survived but walked away from the accident! Bravo!
The empeg survival is icing on the cake.

This is true, but broken bones heal after a couple of months....empegs take that long in ship time to be repaired...
(Now before I get flamed, please know that I AM kidding. I was envolved in a head on collision with a delivery truck, when I was in a Jeep Wrangler (old school) and the lap belt held, but the shoulder harness did not...My face became one with the steering wheel, and required surgery to put my nose back on my face (was hanging under right eye)...but I walked to the ambulance...so it was a good day....till I got the bills...)

Shoulder harnesses are (or should be) designed to break (or slip, it they have inertial reel) at the point where expected internal injuries inflicted by them would be greater than those suffered by head hitting the wheel. Successfully tested 20 or so years ago by a friend who borrowed my car (a domestic variant of Fiat 128) and had a head-on collision with a van. His speed was about 110 km/h, van's about 50. The friend suffered a finely balanced combination of face and internal injuries; had the mix tipped any way (that is, had the shoulder harness broken any sooner or later), he would probably not have survived. Rehabilitation did last a year. (Van driver did not wear a belt and flew through the windshield, but also lived to tell the tale.)

I see. So I guess it could have been worse that broken arm, wrist, shoulder out of dislocated, two cracked ribs (really painful and slow to heal) other arm fratcured in 3 places, both ankles sprung, Concussion, lip tore, nose ripped off, septum crushed, and various other minor stuff. But, I was able to walk (well hobble with some help) to the ambulance...a good day...until the cathader!

Oooouch! Impressive list! Well, perhaps the harness could have held a bit longer (unless the shoulder and ribs damage was already its work).

(That friend of mine had a similarly impresive damage report (combined with burst diaphragm and some other internal injuries) - for example, his teeth were kept joined by wire for a month so that his jaw could pull the rest of his smashed face out...)

I was about to say that driving seems to ba a dangerous passtime, but then I remembered another friend of mine, an excellent driver, off-road motorbike rider and Airbus A320 series check pilot. He spent a year in hospitals and spas after falling from his plane (it was on the ground, obviously).

Anyway, I hope you got patched up completely!

Cheers!