Any "My new Volvo (S/V40, S60, V70, S80) saved my life" stories?

[H. Whelply]

There is another of those "My Volvo 240 saved my life" testimonial posts
here today, with similar stories noted in responses. OK, no question, the
old 240 and similar models were really safe cars, reducing injuries and
preserving many a life. But how about the new non-boxy Volvos? Any stories
to be told yet about how an S/V40, or S60, or V70, S80 saved your life or
that of your family?

PLEASE: no "they-just-don't-build-them-that-way-any-more" rants. Just
saved-a-life stories

Thanks.

 

[Larry Jandro]

PLEASE: no "they-just-don't-build-them-that-way-any-more" rants.
Just saved-a-life stories

My '96 850 wagon saved my ass once.

Going back home from SFO airport one drizzly night, transitioning
from the Bay Bridge to I-80 north around the "Berkeley Curve."

I was doing about 65-70 mph into the blind curve in almost no
traffic, when halfway through it, there were cars backed up and
stopped in front of me.

I thought my ass was grass when I hit the brakes, figuring that on
the wet surface I would just slide and spin into the cars, or go off
the road surface into the rail. The car did neither when the ABS
system kicked in and took me to an unbelievably quick and smooth stop
with no loss of traction or control.

I suppose that another car with a good ABS system would have also
done it, but it was a Volvo I was driving at the time, and I'll give
credit where it's due.

 

[Rob Guenther]

We have had a similar experience in our 1993 960, my father avoided a
collision towing our tent trailer on a very slick road, I have never heard
the ABS system hammer so loudly, but it halted our loaded car and 1800lb
unbraked trailer fairly quickly, but he was in total control of the
steering.....

Sorry, no one in my family has been in a life threatening (or car damaging)
car accident in the past 20+ years, my mom T-boned a Tempo in the early 80s
with our 244, no damage to us, his fault (old guy coming out of a parking
lot into oncoming traffic for my mother), he had to get a new car.... my dad
had to wax the bumper of our sexy little DL.... My dad has a "how a Mercedes
saved my life" story, got rear ended in a Turbodiesel 300 on the autobahn,
she was doing 150, he was doing 80ish... he was in the merge lane, she was
(an idiot).... I don't know it was before I was born, the benz spun, got
impaled by many cars, my dad walked away with a small bruise.

I have avoided a few accidents with the 960... the ABS system, and the
steering system are quite good. Which is good, because drivers around here
aren't.