Thread: Handbrake Parking brake fault
View Single Post
Old 15th January 2007, 18:17   #21 (permalink)
Honcho
Supporter
Triangular Exhaust
 
Join Date: 5th October 2006
Posts: 274
Thanks: 0
Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts
iTrader: (0)
This is really frightening. Poor paint finish or lousy radios aren't going to kill anyone. This might. Cooling discs and weaker than average arms are a universal phenomenon. Handbrake mechanisms should be designed to allow for them...and they obviously are in the main, because cars don't run away all over the place. Of course it's common safety sense to park in gear or turn wheels in. But if common safety sense were relevant there'd be no seat belts, speed cameras, airbags or crash barriers. Honda need to answer this one, and soon...always assuming there isn't some factor involved in this incident we don't know about.
Honcho is offline   Reply With Quote