re is car saftey important tcorkum bnr ca trevor corkum writes is it only me or is safety not one of the most important factors when buying a car it depends on your priorities a lot of people put higher priorities on gas mileage and cost than on safety buying unsafe econoboxes instead of volvos i personally take a middle ground the only thing i really look for is a three point seatbelt and mph bumpers i figure that mph collisions into brick walls aren t common enough for me to spend that much extra money for protection but there are lots of low speed collisions that do worry me jim frost jimf centerline com
