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Originally posted by arz
They are fun to drive, but I swear Germans drive as crazy as anyone else; they do 200 kph in the rain and accidents on the autobahns are nasty affairs, nastier than US interstates, I'll wager.
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The Germans are the ones who came up with the idea of using a helicopter for medevac from highway accidents. With the number of highspeed crashes that happen on the autobahn, they needed it.
Many of the original American medevac choppers (including the first US one at Shocktrauma in MD were Messerschmitts, which have a jet-assist.