"Bob Ackley -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
news:20580$MATZDOBRE{at}JamNNTPd:

 RS>> I remember reading about a 59 Caddy that killed someone
 RS>> standing still, a kid ran into that huge fin and it killed
 RS>> him.

 BA> I find that hard to believe.  I could believe the kid was riding a
 BA> bicycle (or motorcycle), hit the car, went sailing and broke his neck
 BA> on landing. BTW one couldn't run into the fin without running into the
 BA> side of the car, the fins on Cadillacs just weren't that big; IIRC the
 BA> biggest fins were on the '57 through '61 Chrysler products (Chrysler,
 BA> Dodge, Plymouth, Imperial, deSoto).

I remembered reading it somewhere, but couldn't remember where.

Did some research last night, found it again. It was mentioned in Ralph
Nader's book, "Unsafe At Any Speed."

So that tells me it most likely is an urban legend, or something Nader made
up.

 BA> I suppose the '59 Chevy back end fin could theoretically kill somebody
 BA> but I'm not aware of any cases.

There have been cases where pedestrians have been injured, some fatally by
projections off of cars.
But this is pretty rare.

Nowadays almost non-existent.

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