Posted on 05/13/2015 4:59:57 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PHILADELPHIA - A former top U.S. transportation official says federal investigators looking into the fatal train crash in Philadelphia should consider seat belts when they formulate their recommendations.
Ray LaHood was transportation secretary from 2009 to 2013. He told NBC News on Wednesday that he's ridden Amtrak's Northeast Corridor line frequently and has often thought about seat belts.
His comments have rekindled the debate over whether passengers would be safer if they were required to wear seat belts.
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Yea, maybe it would have. But if I don’t want to wear a seat belt? Oh, you’re going to force me to. F U!
Nanny will take care of it. A national seat belt law on all railroads. (Interstate commerce.)
Doing 106 mph as it entered a curve with a 50 mph speed limit is going to kill people with or without seat belts.
You’re spoiling his grandstanding.
Absolutely! Always travel in a vehicle with seat belts. A car or an aeroplane for instance. If people were driving or flying instead of being on a train, it would have made a great deal of difference.
The train was going 106 miles per hour on a curve..seatbelts wouldn’t have saved these people, the first two cars were completely destroyed
Wouldn't it be easier/safer/more economical to stick to speeds UNDER 100 rather than focus on spending more $$$$?
With virtual reality in every home, why bother with the danger and expense of travel? First, it’s bad for the environment, and second, it wastes government and private or soon-to-be-government funds that are desperately needed to combat global warming and fund voter registration initiatives for the undocumented immigrants that keep America safe. “Going places,” an American pastime in the era of racial and social injustice, is now little more than a shallow symbol of national excess and white privilege.
Are you actually saying having a seat belt on..in a plane crash will make a great deal of difference?
European trains don’t have seat belts.
On the 2nd car? Kinda doubt it.
Amtrak has a train on that line that can do 106 mph?
Yeah! Seatbelts.
And helmets.
Helmets with chin guards so the riders can’t lick the windows.
And shin guards.
Helmets....
Everybody must wear helmets at all times!
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Bush forced the train to kill people.
What’s the question?
he engineer of the New York City-bound passenger train applied the locomotive’s emergency braking system just after entering the curved stretch of track, where the maximum allowed speed is 50 miles per hour (80 km per hour), Sumwalt said.
But the brakes managed to only slightly slow the train to 102 mph from 106 mph (171 kph) before the locomotive and all seven passenger cars derailed, he said.
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Apparently so.
I love it, they refuse to require seat belts for our children on school buses but think it would be a good idea on trains.
Also, how many people have drowned or burned to death because they were strapped in and couldn't undo their seat belts?
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