Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Seat Belts Message-ID: <633@psivax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 11:25:40 EDT Article-I.D.: psivax.633 Posted: Thu Aug 8 11:25:40 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 02:15:21 EDT References: <316@baylor.UUCP> <145@batman.UUCP> <2193@amdcad.UUCP> <2364@amdcad.UUCP> <771@gatech.CSNET> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 23 In article <771@gatech.CSNET> jeff@gatech.CSNET (Jeff Lee) writes: >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? >-- Alright, an aquaintance of mine was once involved in a head-on collision when he had about a hundreds of pounds of bricks(or some similar type of thing) in his back seat. After the accident the bricks were in the former location of the front seat. If he had still been in the car he would have been crushed flat. In *that* accident he was actually better off being thrown from the car! So seatbelts, which would have kept him in the car, would actually have killed him. Of course this is a very unusual accident, since *usually* being thrown from the car makes injuries worse. -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) {trwrb|allegra|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|aero!uscvax!akgua}!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen or {ttdica|quad1|bellcore|scgvaxd}!psivax!friesen