Posted on 12/04/2009 4:29:13 PM PST by Federalist Patriot
Here is video from the local Fox affiliate in New York reporting on a multi-car accident involving former NBC Anchor Tom Brokaw and his wife. The Brokaws were unhurt, but a 28 year-old woman was thrown from an SUV as a result of the accident and died. . . . (VIDEO)
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Agreed. And as I said, I doubt this girl was 4’9”. Such a shame. So young.
That being said; I wear my selt belt hundreds of miles daily.
We have a winner!
Uh...that’s not a Corvair. It looks like a Corvette concept vehicle.
Looks like that car came from this site .... http://www.cadvision.com/blanchas/54pontiac/54corvair.html
It’s a fastback ‘54 Corvair concept. According to this site, GM hadn’t decided between the names Corvair and Corvette at the time.
But the lines, other than the roof and the funky tail, are very similar to the original production Corvette.
A cable on the highway I believe. Was NOT Tom Brokaw’s fault. The article said the SUV was coming up FAST and it went on from there. I’m sorry she was not wearing a seatbelt. Very sad.
My car didn’t move until the boys were all buckled up. Every week one got to be ‘Seatbelt Monitor.’ I also told them the car WOULDN’T start unless all the seatbelts were latched.
But then, Dad used to put me in the front seat (no seatbelts in the car at all), Mom in the back seat with the dog and the BABY in the cubby in the rear of our VW Bug!!
And we all survived without a scratch. Never even a fender-bender in all of those years of driving from Milwaukee to ‘Up Nort’ every weekend of our lives.
I’m not sure if I’ve been brainwashed by the Nanny Staters or if we were the luckiest SOBs to ever live, LOL!
Still ‘Unsafe at Any Speed.’ Ralph told me so. *SMIRK*
Terrible, terrible tragedy.
>>Terrible, terrible tragedy.<<
More tragic because it was potentially avoidable with a few clicks.
>>I’m not sure if I’ve been brainwashed by the Nanny Staters or if we were the luckiest SOBs to ever live, LOL!<<
The latter. My wife’s brother was asleep in the back seat of a VW bug when it was broadsided by a sedan. He died, as did the baby who was being carried — foolishly — on the lap of her SIL in the front seat. The SIL (and baby, her neice) went through the windshield and the SIL carries scars (albeit somewhat “cleaned up”) to this day (this was 30 years ago).
My wife was not on that trip, but she was invited to go. Thank God she had other commitments.
Sounds historically accurate to me. Being a 50's kid, I know the lines of an old Corvette when I see one.
And, my first car was a '63 Corvair.
I figured as much. I believe though, that the original Corvette was a 1953 issue, wasn't it? I was born the same year, so that production date has always stuck with me.
I get the point that Diana was making. She just chose the wrong picture. No one who lived through those times would recognize that car as a Corvair.
To me he is just another lying weasel with a lisp.
The paramedics at work say the same thing.
Cars are brought out a year before their model year designation. The first corvette was the ‘54 corvette introduced in the fall of 1953.
Well then both your parmedics and the Hwy patrolman are full of it or just haven’t had a lot of experience then. There are between 40 and 50 thousand car deaths a year. Are you going to tell me that every one of those was someone without a seat belt on? I have personally seen car accidents with dead people in their seat belts. To say something like “never have taken a dead person from a seat belt” is just idiotic.
Wow. I never saw that before. I was a fan of Diana. RIP
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