'Safety features of a £57,000 Volvo saved my life' (From Witney Gazette)

'Safety features of a £57,000 Volvo saved my life'

9:00am Wednesday 17th January 2007 in Witney

A JOURNALIST said the safety features on a new £57,000 Volvo saved his life, following a crash on a West Oxfordshire road.

Geoff Hedge was driving a Volvo S80 along Aston Road, near Ducklington, when the smash happened.

The 56-year-old, who works on magazines for Newsquest Oxfordshire, publishers of the Witney Gazette, was test-driving the car.

Mr Hedge's Volvo was involved in a collision with a Rover at about 7.50am on Saturday, but he walked away, and only suffered a sore tongue which he bit during the crash. The Rover driver was released from his car by firefighters, and then taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, by ambulance, along with another passenger.

Mr Hedge said: "It is a tremendous testament to Volvo cars. I didn't even notice the airbags, they were so well controlled."

The car was borrowed from Motorworld in Botley.