On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:07:16 -0800, "William Sommerwerck"
wrote:

The word "impact" -- as verb or noun -- is one of the most-vapid in English.
It hardly ever is the best choice to express the idea of hitting or
influencing.
Or hit, or banged into, or landed on, or crashed into, etc, etc, etc.


Picky -)