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Tom Brokaw Involved in Multi-Car Accident that Leaves 28 Year-Old Woman Dead - Video 12/4/09
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | December 4, 2009 | Brian

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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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: brokaw; nbcnews; suv; tombrokaw
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1 posted on 12/04/2009 4:29:13 PM PST by Federalist Patriot
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To: Federalist Patriot

You can’t blame Brokaw if people are too stupid to use their seat-belts.


2 posted on 12/04/2009 4:31:56 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: freedumb2003

I haven’t seen anything about the cause of the accident, have you?


3 posted on 12/04/2009 4:35:57 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: Federalist Patriot

Brokenjaw isn’t.


4 posted on 12/04/2009 4:36:04 PM PST by libh8er
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To: Federalist Patriot
Damn evil SUV's now their throwing people out to their deaths!
5 posted on 12/04/2009 4:37:31 PM PST by right way right
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To: Federalist Patriot

I don’t like Brokaw, but this is not his fault and we shouldn’t make it seem that way. The crash doesn’t appear to have been that severe, and the woman was thrown out of her car because she wasn’t wearing a seat belt.

Doors pop open even in fairly low-speed crashes, and the laws of physics mean that your body is still traveling even though the car has suddenly come to a stop. Bad news.


6 posted on 12/04/2009 4:38:36 PM PST by livius
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To: Federalist Patriot

Why didn’t the she have her seat belt on?


7 posted on 12/04/2009 4:38:54 PM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: shield

Because of George Bush!


8 posted on 12/04/2009 4:39:56 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: shield

I remember my driving teacher was a highway patroller and he said he never pulled a dead body from seatbelt.


9 posted on 12/04/2009 4:40:42 PM PST by MNDude (The Republican Congress Economy--1995-2007)
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To: DJ MacWoW

There was a mail van in front of them that swerved to avoid something (a tire, IIRC) in the road, they swerved, one of the vehicles struck another car, and this woman’s car went up onto the median and the door flew open. At least, that’s what I have been able to gather from the reports.

Basically, it involved cars swerving to avoid something in the road.


10 posted on 12/04/2009 4:42:56 PM PST by livius
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Wow. That's got to be horrific for everyone involved. I don't care for Brokaw either, but really...he can't be faulted for her not buckling up.

Good thing she was in a SAFE SUV and not a death-trap Corvair! *WINK*

11 posted on 12/04/2009 4:46:03 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin ( "When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both." - James Davidson)
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... a highway patroller and he said he never pulled a dead body from seatbelt.

He's just not old enough. 8^(

12 posted on 12/04/2009 4:46:06 PM PST by Dust in the Wind (U S Troops Rock)
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To: shield

That seems like a rather odd question to ask of a dead person.


13 posted on 12/04/2009 4:48:48 PM PST by stuartcr (If we are truly made in the image of God, why do we have faults?)
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To: livius

Thanks. It sounds like a “darned if you do, darned if you don’t” kind of situation.


14 posted on 12/04/2009 4:50:14 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: livius

Well said. People think they’re invisible and can survive anything. I always wear a seat belt even if I’m going down the street to get gas, and I demand my 9 year old daughter to do the same.


15 posted on 12/04/2009 5:03:40 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (10 YEARS OF FREEPING! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY EEE!!!)
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To: DJ MacWoW
I haven’t seen anything about the cause of the accident, have you?

No -- but no matter what causes a crash not using a seatbelt is the height of dumbeosity.

16 posted on 12/04/2009 5:11:45 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I always wear a seat belt even if I’m going down the street to get gas, and I demand my 9 year old daughter to do the same.

Even the rich and famous are not exempt from physics:

In that same vein....

Caution -- this is gruesome!

17 posted on 12/04/2009 5:15:50 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: livius
It's Brokaw fault because he was there. If he had not been there it would not of happened. Just like Huckabe making Clemmons eligible for parole. Just turn left.
18 posted on 12/04/2009 5:16:42 PM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: freedumb2003

True but I have a friend that’s 4’9” and was in an accident. They told her that if she’d had her seatbelt on it would have decapitated her. There ARE some circumstances that make it unsafe. However, I doubt the girl in this crash was short.


19 posted on 12/04/2009 5:16:55 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: DJ MacWoW
True but I have a friend that’s 4’9” and was in an accident. They told her that if she’d had her seatbelt on it would have decapitated her. There ARE some circumstances that make it unsafe. However, I doubt the girl in this crash was short.

There are always statistical outliers. The guy or gal who just missed Flight 98. The person who had their car stall out on the way to their outer office at the Pentagon.

But, day in, day out, seatbelts save lives. I won't even go 1/2 a block to the 7-11 without mine.

20 posted on 12/04/2009 5:20:22 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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