Despite that potential delay they still provide what Rodolfo Schöneburg, Daimler's head of passive safety, has described as an "electronic crumple zone": applying the brakes a bit late rather than not at all will at least reduce the impact of a collision.Yet sometimes there is no room for any delay in avoiding an accident, for instance when a vehicle jumps a stop sign at a busy junction.
One officer — his gun drawn while still in his vehicle — jumps out of the passenger side of the SUV and opens fire on the Jaguar as it moves past.
Three occupants of the vehicle jumped out and fled on foot.
A 9-year-old boy was killed and three other people were hurt when a sport utility vehicle jumped the curb at an intersection in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, on Saturday, the authorities said.
After a man suffering from chest pains lost control of his car yesterday afternoon, the vehicle jumped a curb and sped wildly down a sidewalk before slamming into a crowd at a Queens bus stop, the police and witnesses said.
An article yesterday about an accident in Brooklyn in which a sport utility vehicle jumped a curb, killing a man waiting for a bus, misstated the address in some copies for God's Battalion of Prayer, the church where the victim, Alphus John, was a deacon.
In the other fatal accident in Brooklyn on Friday night, a silver Porsche that apparently swerved to avoid striking a turning vehicle jumped a curb and plowed into a group of people on Ocean Parkway at Avenue X in Gravesend, killing two sisters and critically injuring their mother, the police said.
The attacker, apparently startled by the approaching police vehicle, jumped from the car, which was parked in front of a Bronx shopping center, about 11 p.m. Sunday and began firing at the officer before running toward a nearby creek, investigators said.
A passenger in the vehicle jumped out and head-butted and punched him.
Ford Motor announced it'll produce a new "crossover" car-based sport utility vehicle, jump-starting competition in one of the industry's fastest-growing segments.
Ford Motor says it will produce a new "crossover" car-based sport utility vehicle, jump-starting competition in one of the industry's fastest-growing segments.
