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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
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 11:25:40 1985
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Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA
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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)

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