Fortunately, this accident did not end up in the SUV driver dying.
There's a link to a video, though, that demonstrates a good reason (in my opinion) why you don't want an SUV.
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I just attended a lecture tonight on "Peak Oil". The idea that the oil supply might soon run out. Yet another reason why you don't want an SUV.
(PS-I'm back in West Michigan again. Send me an e-mail or something the next time you head into GR)
Every time I've heard discussion of "Peak Oil" it's been by people who don't understand basic Economics.
As oil becomes more scarce (and thus more expensive) alternative sources of energy (solar, nuclear, ethanol, wind, whatever else) become relatively less expensive (as compared with the new price of oil).
There are also resources like the tar sands in Canada that are currently too expensive to use (but if the price of oil continues to go up because of scarcity, it will eventually become practical to extract from them).
So, while changing availability of oil might cause some dramatic changes as energy prices increase, it won't exactly cause the end of civilization (and will tend to make less impacting - renewable sources of energy more attractive).
I'm usually only headed to GR for family stuff, but I could always drive up there to visit if you want...
I'll be gone for the next week doing family stuff, but I'll be in touch after that.
She's really lucky. One of the "hidden" dangers of SUV/truck-rollovers is the shoulderbelt. Like cars, the shoulderbelt mounting is on the B-pillar. SUV/truck mountings tend to be higher and farther back than a car's. The distance between one's shoulder and the shoulderbelt mounting is the distance one will drop in a rollover. In an SUV/truck, one tends to drop further than in a car, because of the location of the mounting point. End result, the drop distance is more than the headroom of the vehicle, causing skull & neck injury.
Haven't seen statistics on this (I think 60 Minutes may have done a story on it). But I've been looking at the mounting points for various vehicles as I've sat in them. The basic idea of Truck/SUV shoulderbelts being mounted higher & further back than in most cars correlates with my observations.