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Article: Crash laboratory teaches more than driving safety
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- June 21, 2009
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MILWAUKEE - If ever there was a place to convince you of the need
for careful driving it is this one, tucked into a pair of
nondescript buildings in an obscure corner on the grounds of the
Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center.
The crumpled cars are a clue even before you step inside the
long, high shed where 471 feet of concrete track ends in a collision
chamber lined with concrete blocks to contain the energy of
colliding vehicles. With the summer driving season's unofficial
kickoff this weekend, with the likelihood of more people driving to
nearby vacations in this economically troubled year, it's worth
looking for lessons amid the pieces of glass and metal in the
automobile crash ...