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I am going to have to agree with what Mercury has been saying. The bad part about this, besides the obvious which is death, is that I can see mainstream press ranting and raving over how the Mustang is unsafe, blah ,blah, blah. And people jumping to conclusions before they know what the facts are or have any other information about other cars crash performances.

If it was that bad, why hasn't NHTSA done anything about it? Again, probably because there are a bunch of other makes and models that will perform similarly if the samething happened to them.

I feel badly for the woman who was burned, however, I have issues with the way that story was written. The "Daniele's son being mechanically inclined gave the car a good once over" and " The force of the impact was not even enough to break a bone in Danielle's body, but the Mustang instantly burst violently in flames" comments are just there to spin what happened and make the reader use emotion instead of fact in their judgement. As stated earlier, breaking bones is not an indicator of how bad the accident was. I rolled my first 91 Gt while going 70 MPH and I walked away with only a sore back. Granted it was a different type of accident, but thats the point. Every accident is different. One article is not going give all the facts and most people wouldn't understand the crash and vehicle dynamics anyway.

I'm not a person that likes it when companies covers things up (if that is what happened here), but the way the material is presented and considering the source, I don't like the way it is going down.

Its a crappy situation, but it won't stop me from buying another Ford product. Driving a vehicle is dangerous and is a risk we take.