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Good God. The car was specifically designed to kill these children. We have got to close the SUV loophole. Maybe we can't do much about guns but we can sure as hell stop giving tax breaks to people who drive Mad Max murder machines through residential neighborhoods. www.reuters.com/article/us-a...

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Case in point: The children tragically killed by a woman who purportedly had a seizure at the wheel and ploughed her car into a school playground in Wimbledon would still be alive today if she had not been driving a Land Rover Defender, which was expressly designed to mount kerbs at speed

Speaking to The Irish Times at the launch, Nick Collins, the Defender's vehicle line director explained that "an example of one of our toughest sign-off tests was to get the Defender to overcome hitting a 200mm high square-edged kerb at 40km/h. Now if you happen to be unlucky enough to be the test driver of that car, that's quite an extreme input. That specific test will generate 7 tonnes of load through the suspension, through the links and into the body structure." And the new Defender can cope. This is heavy duty off-roading. https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/motors/land-rover-defender-a-reboot-that-lives-up-to-the-hype-1.4295456
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