Two years later his wife was broadsided (driver side) by a red light runner. She emerged without a scratch. Before all the environmental and pollution regulations passed by our esteemed pols in DC cars used to be built with steel (thick). In the late forties the Israeli Army bought up all the NYC Desoto cabs and used them for armored personnel carriers.
How many people died in thin-skinned plastic/aluminum cars built to meet environmental regs? It's the unintended consequences for which nobody is held accountable.