Tom Brokaw Involved in Multi-Car Accident that Leaves 28 Year-Old Woman Dead - Video 12/4/09

Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | December 4, 2009 | Brian

[al_c]

I get the point that Diana was making. She just chose the wrong picture. No one who lived through those times would recognize that car as a Corvair.

Yep ... point made. And I like the pic she posted. That was one hot looking car. Should've pushed it instead of the other.

[Clinging Bitterly]

The seatbelt habit wasn't native in my family either, lots of our cars from the '60s didn't have them at all. When our dad was killed (ironically in a traffic wreck but he was riding his Harley) we were very young and mom bought a VW bus. It would have been a '60 or '61 maybe, and she took out the back seat and put in a playpen. We went all over the country in that. My sister fell in a quick stop one time and broke her collarbone, but that didn't change any habits. By then the seat was back in the bus but there were still no belts. We would more than likely have been standing up in the back seat so we could see out.

I didn't start using seat belts regularly until maybe 1980 when I was 22 and had a car new enough to have the easier to use retractable lap/shoulder combo. Now it's old habit and it just feels wrong to not use them.

[Clinging Bitterly]

Interesting stuff from that site. The Nomad. Linked from there is a site about building one, adapting the ‘Vette front end and tail treatment to a production Nomad. Cool car. We had one for a while when I was a kid but that was not our Nomad.

[Windflier]

That was one hot looking car. Should've pushed it instead of the other.

Too much Euro influence for the times, methinks. The Chevy designers were looking to create a distinctly American sports car with the Vette, and I think they succeeded.

[Windflier]

Cars are brought out a year before their model year designation. The first corvette was the ‘54 corvette introduced in the fall of 1953.

Right you are. That slipped my mind for a moment.

[1951Boomer]

My story is the same as yours. Our family of eight drove thousands of miles on numerous vacations in the family station wagon. We did not have seatbelts, and Dad had a lead foot. I think part of the reason we survived is that there really was less traffic and fewer people back in the 50s and 60s. Nowadays, it seems all the highways are saturated. I keep asking myself what explains it, other than the obvious birth rate and immigration.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“I keep asking myself what explains it, other than the obvious birth rate and immigration.”

And the constant drone of the LefTards, “No sprawl! No sprawl! No more roads! Take the bus! Live in the city! Just pay your taxes and shut up!”

It’s a BIG problem around here. We have semi-trucks driving on city streets because the lefties REFUSE to build another highway around the city because it might displace a field mouse or something. *Rolleyes*

[cubreporter]

not sure I understand.

[freedumb2003]

Clicking the seatbelt would more than likely have saved the woman’s life.

[trisham]

What a cool car.

[cubreporter]

oh yes. Sorry. I forgot...she was NOT wearing a seatbelt. Thanks.

[Yorlik803]

As a EMT, I never had to pull seat belted body out of a car, but I have had several die at the hospital due to internal injuries.
Seat Belts work great, but like any mechanical device, they are not perfect. The best way to survive a wreck is not to have one in the first place.