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To: Hegemony Cricket
can we pretty much assume that when they finally get through the murky water and start pulling bodies out of cars, that none of them will be wearing seatbelts?

No, but it's a darn fine chance that each person who did escape from their car after it hit the water was wearing their seatbelt. It's a logical fallacy to assume that if x=y then z=/=y.

Those who both wear seatbelts and those who do not wear seatbelts die in accidents such as this. Those who wear seatbelts have a dramatically improved chance to survive accidents such as this.

33 posted on 08/03/2007 11:31:01 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

You could ask my aunt, since she is alive, about it.

Her car flipped upside down into a water-filled ditch, breaking the windows, and instantly filling the car with water.

If she had had to fumble with unfastening the seatbelt, chances are overwhelmingly slender that she would have made it out.


35 posted on 08/03/2007 11:42:06 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (You can take the boy out of the country, but you just can't get the smell off his shoes.)
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