Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site axiom.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!axiom!smk 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 Article-I.D.: axiom.78 Posted: Thu Aug 8 17:29:21 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 03:43:35 EDT References: <316@baylor.UUCP> <145@batman.UUCP> <2193@amdcad.UUCP> <2364@amdcad.UUCP> <771@gatech.CSNET> Organization: Axiom Technology, Newton MA Lines: 18 > 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. -- --steve kramer {allegra,genrad,ihnp4,utzoo,philabs,uw-beaver}!linus!axiom!smk (UUCP) linus!axiom!smk@mitre-bedford (MIL)