Crashed into the Mercedes C-Class sedan, the Smart "went airborne and spun around one and a half times."

"[I]n a collision between cars of that weight, the sedan would slow down by 27 m.p.h. while the two-seater would change speed by 53 m.p.h., moving backward at 13 m.p.h."

IN THE EMAIL: A reader [Steve Barns] writes:

Here's a picture of two Smart cars sharing a single parking space. I took the picture in Paris a couple years ago.



In my spare time I am a volunteer firefighter/EMT. The first time I saw a Smart car in the US I was in the back of our rescue (big truck that carries extrication tools for cutting people out of crumpled cars). The driver who is a very experienced firefighter said, "Let's follow them, they're going to need us."