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    60 Minutes has a story of military vehicle accidents. Tonight NOW west coast.

    You can explain anything away with fandom reasoning. The HMMWV disintegrated in a roll at 45mph. Military spent millions refitting older HMMWVs with rollover mitigation tech and the new ones have it. That wasnt because of one "staged" test. Looking at the construction on these trucks what I...
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    60 Minutes has a story of military vehicle accidents. Tonight NOW west coast.

    Interesting report on Rollovers and restraint use but only through 2013: PDF Report
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    60 Minutes has a story of military vehicle accidents. Tonight NOW west coast.

    My immediate though when seeing that disaster of a test is that if I wanted to keep one of these things and drive it that the prudent thing to do would be to install a full welded safety cage. MVTR has a 5 point harness. These things should too if you are really using it.
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    60 Minutes has a story of military vehicle accidents. Tonight NOW west coast.

    The video rollover where the thing disintegrates is at 45mph. This is all new to me but just a bit of research shows that its not that hard to roll a HMMWV. High center of gravity. I think more people need to be fully aware of what they are buying and driving. Its a cool vehicle but has 1960's...
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