Sorry...PICS...not pigs.

 

Well lets just say I have 2 excursions and both have been in acidents and when the 01 was in a wreck the other car was totaled and when the 04 was in a wreck the other car was totaled so they hold up realy well.

 

I saw the wreck on ur 04, but what happened to the 01? Any pics?

 

Your "post" is dead wrong; can lead to some very dangerous assumptions. You badly need to do some research. Fact is upper body structures on the Ford Excursion are inadequate to protect the occupants in all but the most gentle roll-overs.

Strongly recommend to all Excursion operators that they drive these vehicles with extreme caution. As in the case of any SUV, even more so in the case of the Excursion, they are top-heavy in comparison to the average conventional automobile, and thus much morel likely to over-turn.

The Excursion is an ideal vehicle for my purposes; does its job well (providing lots of storage and seating space while towing my heavy "toys"). But an assumption that its rugged chassis and running gear is any reflection on its upper body structure is just plain WRONG.

Of course in a LOW speed "head on" or "rear ender", I sure as heck would much rather be in my Excursion than just about anything else with four wheels we are likely to encounter in every-day driving. But in the typical "intersection" accident at speed, or other similar "upset type" accidents...well....as noted above, you need to do some research. Guaranteed when you find out the FACTS of how little protection the Excursion gives you in a roll-over, your driving will change to reflect that !

 

Well first off let me tell you that I do not disagree with you opinion completely. Nor did i say that an excursion is a bullet proof vehicle that can be rolled off a cliff with no side effects. As a matter of fact any vehicle crash wether a pinto, excursion or a moped is going to get screwed up and potenially hurt or kill a person in a bad enough crash. As I stated the Excursions on the Copartfinder.com site showed major damage to those vehicles and even the worst one appears that the driver could have survived. Trust me i did plenty of research to know what I bought. I wasnt looking for a little sports car waiting to be killed at any moment but something bigger and much safer for the FAMILY. Dan

 

No I wasnt there it was only my dad and no pics

 

I have been in two high speed accidents in my X. Both involved drunk drivers. The first was a drunk driver in a stolen car trying to pass my X on the right between a guardrail and my X on the shoulder doing 90+mph while I was doing 70. He clipped the guard rail and came into my front passenger door and then spun and dinged up the rest of the passenger side of the truck. It did about $3500 damage, It was driveable, so I drove it and continued on my Vacation with my family. I couldn't beleive how solid it was when hit. It was only 3 months old at the time. The jerk in the stolen car ended up dieing about a half mile down the road when the cops caught up to him....
The second one was about 6 months later coming home from a dog training day. It was about 10:30pm with just me and the dogs in the back in their dog crates. A lady going the other direction on the freeway who was drunk lost control of her car and drove through the median and I broadsided her doing 65mph. I was breaking hard when I hit her and trying to avoid her by steering into the median. Luckily for her I hit the car in the rear passenger door and the rear quarter pannel. On impact her car spun into the next lane of traffic and hit a semi truck in the drive wheels. I ended up in the median with a flat rear tire from something I hit in the median and front end damage and right side damage and damage to the roof (scratches) from the spoiler on her car hitting the windsheild and the roof. The front bumper didn't even push into the right front tire. The air bags didn't go off.... I think that her car may have been air borne and thus not as much resistance when I hit her. She was not wearing her seatbelt and is lucky to have lived. She was in a comma for almost a month. She had three previous DUI's, so she was not new at this game and it wasn't even her car.....
It did about $13,000 dollars of damage to the X and I was worried about getting it fixed right. The X now has 140,000 miles on it and is as tight as it was back then. I am positive I would have been seriously injured, or died if I was in a smaller vehicle. I was amazed at how it took that type of hit! I understand that the dynamics vary from accident type to accident type, but in the two I have been in I am very thankful to have had the X around me!!!!
Pat

 

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