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As for a particular instance the engine was found one-hundred feet from the car body. Or a couple man and woman hit a telephone pole at high speed and both were killed. But strangely his penis was missing, it was talked about. Where was it found ?
There were no safety belts in those days. Cars were not equipped with them. But on the other hand the one survivor in many if not most of these metal mayhems was the door-next front passenger, who was thrown from the car thru the door window or out by the door busting open.
My best school-friend in grade-school sixth and seventh grades, who lived in Lake Villa and was never to my house nor I to his, became famous for his facility to survive car accidents, five of which the driver was killed, but each time he as the only other passenger was thrown from the car. He was also involved in a sixth, of which we came across driving along Shoreline Drive on the north side of Song Lake, where a freshly overturned car with wheels still spinning lay in a vacant field and the driver and my old buddy were pulling themselves out of the open windows of the overturned vehicle. Nobody was hurt this time.
There was a time with the '57 Chevy I was coming out of Libertyville heading for North Chicago and had to cross a reasonably long bridge in daylight winter time. Whereas normal road pavement at this time of winter can be completely dry and highly grip-able, a bridge because air flows underneath can be completely slick and ice slippery.
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