[Mgs] Seat Belts

The Roxter rocknatural at gmail.com
Sun Jul 3 12:13:43 MDT 2011


On 7/2/2011 6:02 PM, Murray Arundell wrote:
> The only problem with this concept of unfetted personal freedom and 
> no intervention by Government is that this works when every citizen 
> approaches life from a responsible direction.  As we know, this does 
> not happen.  However to address the notion that failure to wear a 
> seat belt only endangers the non-wearer demonstrates a complete lack 
> of understand of what happens in a car crash.......   Imagine you 
> are the driver of a sedan carrying three passengers, one beside you 
> in the front seat, two in the rear.  You are wearing a seatbelt, the 
> others are not.  Guess what happens when you crash into a stationary 
> object at say 30mph.  Your car is wrecked and every body is 
> killed..... even you wearing the seat belt because you are crushed 
> by 100lbs of human being smashed into your skull from behind because 
> they were not restrained.  Now please tell me how the irresponsible 
> decision of the back seat passenger has not endangered anyone else? 
>  You're Dead and the guy behind you that has killed you quite likely 
> survived because your body has taken his impact and stopped him 
> going through the windshield.....
>
> As I said, flawed if not stupid logic.....
>
> Murray Arundell
You don't approve of Darwin awards?

BTW, there's no back seat in my MG.

-Rocky Frisco
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