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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
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Posted: Mon Jun 13 14:12:51 1983
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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