Posted on 09/27/2014 7:22:03 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
MICHIGAN, N.D. -- A Fort Totten man is dead and three children are hurt after the car they were in hit a moose late Monday night in northeast North Dakota.
North Dakota State Patrol Sgt. Joe Knowski said the 2003 Chevy Cavalier was headed east on U.S. 2 about a mile east of Michigan about 10:05 p.m. when it hit the moose, which was in the middle of the highway.
The Cavalier rolled numerous times before coming to rest on the south edge of the roadway, ejecting the driver and all three children, who are 10, 5, and 2, from the vehicle.
The 37-year-old driver died at the scene.
All three boys were taken to Altru Hospital in Grand Forks for treatment of their injuries.
None of the people in the vehicle were wearing seat belts. The moose died on impact.
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It’s weird the way the article is worded to sound as though the driver was just along for the ride, and the car is responsible for hitting the moose.
(Then again, it *is* a Government Motors product.)
What? They give the year, make and model, but not the color? Sloppy reporting.
The words of a Texas State Trooper during defensive driving:
“I’ve never unbuckled a dead person in a crashed vehicle”.
We have them here. The first one I drove past was on the west side of the Rocky Mountain National Park. He was being photographed by every tourist there, lining up on the side of the road.
He was quite a big fellow.
Next one was on a dirt road in the mountains. He was not as people friendly, hiding in the trees.
I was born and raised in Grand Forks. We always passed by Michigan, ND on the way to Devils Lake, to play hockey. I think Ft Totten is a reservation.
That trooper didn’t have enough experience.
Pray for the children. Very sad news.
Sad reminder of the need to use seatbelts.
Was he on the force for 6 months yet?
He had over 40 years under his belt. He was blinded in one eye after he got kicked by a horse and went on to teach defensive driving. He told many stories about crashes and never called them accidents.
I do remember a woman getting beheaded by her shoulder strap because she was wearing it too high. Slammed into a tree and you can figure out the rest.
See my reply below.
Seat belts certainly save lives. I just think that feeding someone BS to sway their opinion is...BS. (in general, not directed at you) People wearing seat belts die every single day.
Lucky he was wearing his seatbelt!
In my younger days I worked as a forensic photographer and I’ve certainly seen dead folk buckled in. That said, after seeing some of the ones that weren’t, like after they go through a windshield at 70 or get ejected and have the car roll on top of them, I won’t even back my car out the garage without putting on my seatbelt.
The February 1972 issue of Motor Trend had an eye opening article called “15 Great American Crashes” which examined 15 crashes wherein the occupants were wearing seat belts. These 15 were part of a larger study of several hundred crashes.
In this sample two people died. One was a teenaged boy sitting in the front passenger seat when the car (with 4 teenaged boys) left the road at an estimated speed of 105mph and hit a36” diameter oak tree. The deceased made bodily contact with the tree.
The other fatality in this group of 15 crashes was sitting in the back of a Mustang, wearing his seat belt. The Mustang had run out of gas as was stopped either in the road or on the shoulder. It was rear-ended by a car traveling at “highway speed”. The rear bumper of the Mustang contacted the decease.
The other 13 were equally horrendous. The drivers and passengers all survived, some with serious injuries, but they all survived. One lady had her kitten crawl out of the cardboard transport box in the back seat, up over the seat back and onto the driver’s face. She hit a bridge abutment. Broken legs & an arm, but she lived.
Another guy hit a cloverleaf exit ramp too fast, went airborne (over a group of kids playing) for 65 feet then tumbled end over end 6 times. He lived.
These were with cars with restraint systems and structural integrity that is now 40 to 50 years old.
Wear your seat belts!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtxd27jlZ_g
1959 Chevrolet Bel Air vs. 2009 Chevrolet Malibu IIHS crash test
I travel to northwest mountains in Maine and seeing moose is a common event. Seeing them at night is absolutely frightening because they seem to be as black as the night. We came so close to hitting one that it actually kicked and dented the front license plate as we were breaking to stop in time and d it was running away. My teeth chattered uncontrollably for about 30 min before I could finally get them to stop. I don’t recall ever being so scared, the whole thing happened so fast and yet it felt like everything was happening in slow motion.
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