Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/26/83; site iheds.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!iheds!kmw From: kmw@iheds.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: 55 saves lives Message-ID: <237@iheds.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 14:12:51 EDT Article-I.D.: iheds.237 Posted: Mon Jun 13 14:12:51 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jun-83 12:28:18 EDT References: <667@utcsstat.UUCP> Organization: BTL Naperville, Il. Lines: 20 Driving 55 does save lives. Specifically, it saved mine and my brother's. My brother fell asleep at the wheel (my wheel ... poor little car!) while driving on a highway at 55mph. We went off the road, did a nosedive followed by one and a half rolls, and came to rest upside-down leaning against a "Rest Area 1/2 Mile" sign. We both walked out unhurt; the car was totaled. I doubt I could have said the same (or said anything!) if we'd been going the speed limit when it was 65 or 70. Of course, we were also wearing seatbelts, which I am sure had a lot to do with our survival. By the way, the safety glass in automobiles required by all those nasty government regulations is really neat stuff. All those shards of glass that used to be the windshield, hanging neatly adheared to the safety film, would have been in my face without it. --K. Wilber ...iheds!kmw