MIKE Hunter's smaller car thesis??

The governor of New Jersey, for instance.[/QUOTE]

What about him? He wears his seatbelts, NOW.

Jeff

 

Three years ago one of my wife's friends neglected to belt up before she got
on the icy highway. The car slid off and she broke the passenger's door with
her butt, fracturing a vertebrum. She was taken off in an ambulance and has
only partially recovered so far - if she had been belted in she could have
driven her car home.

Two years ago a friend was driving his work truck westbound from Phoenix on
I-10. A car in the next lane and slightly ahead had a blowout at 75 mph and
the driver overcorrected, veering sideways in front of my friend's truck.
With no time to react my friend's truck hit the car in the driver's door,
sending it rolling madly down the freeway until it came to rest on its roof.
All the glass was gone and the car was unrecognizable. The young woman
driving it unfastened her belt and crawled out with just a cut on her hand.
When she recovered some of her wits she started screaming, "My baby!" My
friend and one of the others who had stopped crawled inside to find an
infant in a baby seat in the center of the rear seat, looking puzzled. They
unfastened the baby seat from the car and lifted it out. Mother and baby
slept in their own beds that night instead of any of the awful alternatives.

Last year my wife's sister didn't notice the car in front of her had
stopped. She hit the stopped car; she was unbelted and the steering wheel
tore her liver completely in two. Her young daughter had belted herself in
the passenger seat and was unhurt.

Somehow it really doesn't seem very hard to understand.

Mike

 

Three years ago one of my wife's friends neglected to belt up before she got
on the icy highway. The car slid off and she broke the passenger's door with
her butt, fracturing a vertebrum. She was taken off in an ambulance and has
only partially recovered so far - if she had been belted in she could have
driven her car home.

Two years ago a friend was driving his work truck westbound from Phoenix on
I-10. A car in the next lane and slightly ahead had a blowout at 75 mph and
the driver overcorrected, veering sideways in front of my friend's truck.
With no time to react my friend's truck hit the car in the driver's door,
sending it rolling madly down the freeway until it came to rest on its roof.
All the glass was gone and the car was unrecognizable. The young woman
driving it unfastened her belt and crawled out with just a cut on her hand.
When she recovered some of her wits she started screaming, "My baby!" My
friend and one of the others who had stopped crawled inside to find an
infant in a baby seat in the center of the rear seat, looking puzzled. They
unfastened the baby seat from the car and lifted it out. Mother and baby
slept in their own beds that night instead of any of the awful alternatives.

Last year my wife's sister didn't notice the car in front of her had
stopped. She hit the stopped car; she was unbelted and the steering wheel
tore her liver completely in two. Her young daughter had belted herself in
the passenger seat and was unhurt.

Somehow it really doesn't seem very hard to understand.

Mike

 

Michael Pardee wrote:

There is a big difference between understanding and doing the
appropriate behavior.

Ask all those who smoke.

Jeff

 

Michael Pardee wrote:

There is a big difference between understanding and doing the
appropriate behavior.

Ask all those who smoke.

Jeff

 

Walk and stay off the highways, you be safe and save a lot of gas. You be
doing about 15 MPG of water.
Ahh but wait you might get killed by a four or two legged creature walking.
If you got to walk pack and if you pack carry P+.
Life is a bitch and then you die, when it is your turn your gone belt or
not.

BuBa JoeBoB from S.C.
ROFLMAO

 

Walk and stay off the highways, you be safe and save a lot of gas. You be
doing about 15 MPG of water.
Ahh but wait you might get killed by a four or two legged creature walking.
If you got to walk pack and if you pack carry P+.
Life is a bitch and then you die, when it is your turn your gone belt or
not.

BuBa JoeBoB from S.C.
ROFLMAO

 

"Michael Pardee" ...

You would think so, but apparently it isn't.

I became even more of restraint fanatic after working in an Emergency Room.

I remember a New Year's Eve fatality with a 17-year-old girl, who, when you
looked at her body, there was barely a mark on her, but she died instantly
when her unrestrained head hit just the right part of the inside of the car.
(she wasn't drunk or high, either)

What a waste.

Natalie

 

"Michael Pardee" ...

You would think so, but apparently it isn't.

I became even more of restraint fanatic after working in an Emergency Room.

I remember a New Year's Eve fatality with a 17-year-old girl, who, when you
looked at her body, there was barely a mark on her, but she died instantly
when her unrestrained head hit just the right part of the inside of the car.
(she wasn't drunk or high, either)

What a waste.

Natalie

 

"Jeff" ...

But it's waaayyyy easier to put on a seat belt, than quit smoking, or for
that matter, losing weight.

Natalie

 

"Jeff" ...

But it's waaayyyy easier to put on a seat belt, than quit smoking, or for
that matter, losing weight.

Natalie

 

I have never been in a car without my seat belt on...

guess that is just how we were raised...

my parents both worked at a hospital though...

I always love those stories people tell you about "the doctor told me if i
had my seat belt on, id be dead."

cough cough... bs cough cough...

 

I have never been in a car without my seat belt on...

guess that is just how we were raised...

my parents both worked at a hospital though...

I always love those stories people tell you about "the doctor told me if i
had my seat belt on, id be dead."

cough cough... bs cough cough...

 

Maybe but bear in mind that the defective genes have probably been
passed on down...

JT

 

Maybe but bear in mind that the defective genes have probably been
passed on down...

JT

 

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But bottled water costs four times as much as gas.....

 

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But bottled water costs four times as much as gas.....

 

"GO Mavs"...

Amen! Most of the time, that's exactly what it is.

Natalie

 

"GO Mavs"...

Amen! Most of the time, that's exactly what it is.

Natalie

 

I started doing accident investigations back when seatbelts were still
optional equipment, but I can't remember one accident where the
vehicle's occupants would have been better off without seatbelts.

On the other hand, I did know a person who would not have lost his big
toe if he hadn't been wearing steel-toed safety shoes, and my father
may have died prematurely, from Parkinson's disease, because he quit
smoking at age 75. Still, I don't mow the lawn without safety shoes
or smoke.