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That had nothing or little to do with the airbags, but because the Silverado was probably heavier than the car that hit you. Also the Silverado isn't 1 star but 3 star rated which means you only have a 20-30% chance for serious injury, so that coupled with you being in a larger vehicle being crashed into by a smaller vehicle (assuming), I'd say the outcome wasn't entirely unbelievable. But a few weeks ago, where I live, some idiot woman and her kids drove on the WRONG SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY in her minivan doing like 60mph and crashed into a big SUV with 3 men whom all of which died, and in her vehicle, she and all of the passengers died except for her son who is in critical condition. It was a pretty bad accident but it shows that the only instance an SUV/Big vehicle is "safer" is against small cars, otherwise it usually isn't any safer at all.
Well I was just really worried/annoyed that I wouldn't be able to have an OBD-I car if I had to go with the '96 civics, but after reading some more, I realized that there are people who temporarily convert their car to OBD-I and then convert back to OBD-II for the Smog check, so hopefully that will be enough for me in terms of "safety". I could obviously try to study both cars and see what they did differently but that'll have to be something very far into the future, assuming there isn't some bullshit cash for clunkers program for these vehicles.whats with you and these crash threads? or how to make a civic safer...
hahaha. so funny... No, the reason why "emissions" and "safety" are related is because I had started an infamous thread discussing making a '92-'95 civic safer because it was OBD-I and I wanted an OBD-I car and couldn't figure out why the '96-'00 was "substantially safer" despite not being all that different. I didn't want the '96-'00 because it is OBD-II but now I've realized, that maybe I'll just have a conversion harness so that when I need to do smog, I'll use the OBD-II ECU but otherwise for everything else, I'll be using the OBD-I ECU, therefore somewhat resolving the "safety" issue.
