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To: notigar

Um, OK, this I gotta see. What kind of statistics can you produce on the number of people killed annually because someone else was ejected from their auto while not wearing a seat belt? I wasn't aware this was a common thing.


18 posted on 02/17/2005 10:52:36 AM PST by Still Thinking (Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
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To: Still Thinking

I do know of a case years ago where teen-age driver lost control and went flying off into a field. Driver's door opens and driver falls out. He's injured and unconscious but survives. The driverless car then continues on and hits big rock or tree -- I forget which. Passenger is ejected through the windshield, lands in a creek unconscious, and drowns.

That's not an argument for mandatory seatbelts, but it is an argument for anybody with brains to always use seatbelts.


27 posted on 02/17/2005 11:01:05 AM PST by Gone GF
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To: Still Thinking

I'm not saying its common. But at 50 km/h, an a person weighing 176 lbs. will strike whatever it hits first with a force of 6,215 lbs. That body is hitting something, maybe in the road. It also is another object that has to be avoided by other drivers.


94 posted on 02/17/2005 12:10:27 PM PST by notigar
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