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To: epow

Happened to me many years ago...but I lived and I launched into the wood with cruise control on at 55mph!


34 posted on 12/11/2006 5:56:38 PM PST by surfer
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To: surfer
.but I lived and I launched into the wood with cruise control on at 55mph!

Wow, you owe your guardian angel, big time!!

I traveled as much as 75,000 to 100,00 miles a year in my factory rep job before I retired, most of it by automobile, and I saw a lot of wrecks caused by drivers falling asleep at the wheel. I only had one serious accident in all of those years and miles. I totaled an almost new Ford when it was overturned by a sudden freak gust of very high wind that also overturned a big tractor-trailer rig right behind me. I got a damaged cervical vertebra from being thrown violently into the roof, and was off the job for almost a year.

A seat belt would probably have kept me from injury in that accident. Ever since that time I have always buckled up any and every time I get into any vehicle, even if I'm just going to the Minit Mart for a jug of milk.

42 posted on 12/11/2006 6:19:38 PM PST by epow (The Christmas story, short version: John 1:14, "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us".)
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To: surfer

Ping! Sorry we are having a sad holiday season.


45 posted on 12/11/2006 6:25:18 PM PST by paulat
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To: surfer

There was a young girl on Fox a few months ago that won some sort of Science award for a device she invented that will sound and wake up a driver if he/she falls asleep at the wheel.. I forget, now, exactly how it works, but she is supposed to be getting a patent on it so it wasn't a fly-by-night invention.


67 posted on 12/11/2006 7:11:55 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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