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From: smk@axiom.UUCP (Steven M. Kramer)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Seat Belts
Message-ID: <78@axiom.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 17:29:21 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 17:29:21 1985
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> From: jeff@gatech.CSNET (Jeff Lee)
> Subject: Re: Seat Belts
> Article-I.D.: gatech.771
> 
> I would like to see what kind of accident that seatbelts cannot handle very
> well (or even hinder survival). A good 3 point safety belt prevents forward
> motion and helps suppress motion side to side. It also holds you down if you
> decide to roll. What can't they do that might happen in some types of
> accidents?

When my car flipped and went off a bridge into a pond, I was trapped under
ice.  I think if I had had a seat belt, I would have panicked and/or the
water rushing in would have killed me.  All that happened was that I got
cold.
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	--steve kramer
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