Posted on 05/24/2015 7:08:06 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
I agree!
I **always** wear a seat belt, but the strap hits my neck. It could be made so that it was more comfortable.
>>Seat belts will save you about 50% of the time and kill you about 50% of the time. I guess you’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
>Not quite.
>They save you about 98 percent of the time when the collision involves occupants being ejected.
One time many moons ago (1970's) my mom was driving me home from Girl Scout camp when a convertible with two young fellas zipped past us on the highway. A couple of miles on we were one of the first vehicles to come upon the scene of an accident involving the convertible and a sedan. The two young men from the rag top were thrown clear and per the ambulance attendants who later arrived on scene were expected to survive. Not so lucky was the middle aged couple who had been seat belted in their hard top sedan and died instantly when it was flipped in its lid.
A few years later, I was a passenger in the front seat of a friend's vehicle when he wrapped it around a telephone pole. I was not wearing my safety harness and ended up on the floorboard with the motor and firewall partially on top of me. If I were buckled in, my torso would most likely have been crushed by the dash that was kissing the seat back when the paramedics arrived.
These are just my experiences. YMMV
Corporate rules on the railroads I have worked for call for all employees to wear seatbelts in highway motor vehicles... even the hi-rail pickup trucks when on the tracks. When going on track inspections, you are in and out of the truck, constantly... and we violate the rules because the dimwit that wrote the rule never had to deal with continuously hauling himself up and down out of a pickup truck that it a foot higher than usual because it is up on the track and strapping in and out... literally at times every couple hundred feet. We just buckle the belt to the seat... or get used to the alarm constantly dinging.
My cousin rolled his car, luckily he was ejected and walked away with bruises, the car itself was completely caved in.
That pretty much sums up my experiences too.
Also driving in the mountains, if your vehicle is going over and you’re buckled in, you reduce your chances of survival. Water accidents goes without saying.
I always wear my seat belt when driving but mostly so I don't get a ticket, but it does increase ones odds of survival even tho there are no guarantees. Just P***** me off the government makes me. Riding the bike is very liberating. I drive a full size van the rest of the time but know from experience it's really no safer than the bike. When your number is up it's up.
Work is hard.
There are safe ways to work that make it easier... then there is the lawyerin’ way to “work”.
If it makes you feel safer not to use restraints that’s your decision.
Being ejected seldom ends well. Being blown out a closed side or front window and going under the wheels of several vehicles is not a good way to go. Some even go through the sun roofs.
Based on odds and real life experience I choose to use them.
Good luck.
The grave yards are full of people who were run over/crushed by their own vehicles. Trust me here. See 89.
Thrown from the taxi. They would have likely died from the belts as well.
Yes, better odds with the belts.
Don’t worry I usually wear my seat belt except for when I don’t.
It should be a choice, not mandated from government though.
I think you would find that not many people wear seat belts in a cab. I do when I can find them.
They also say ‘stats’ when referring to the disipline of statistics, whereas we only say it when referring to the data themselves.
You become accustomed to ‘maths’ and ‘stats’ after you’ve been around Brits long enough. But personally, I don’t think I could ever become so accustomed to them I’d use them myself. Although some Americans do, especially when speaking with Brits.
Just remember, we say ‘physics’ without batting an eye. In fact, ‘physic’ would be plain flat-out wrong when referring to the science of physics.
It's pretentious and uber-gay. It's like saying, "Lunch? Sure, let me check my shed-jewel."
I agree!
Oh my....Rest in peace.
Was a math grad student at Princeton in the early 80’s. As it turned out, I was “tea chairman”, which meant that I was in charge with overseeing the daily tea during my 2nd year there. I got this “honor” just because I passed my oral exams before everybody else due to arbitrary scheduling.
Nash liked to hang out in the tea room. Although we all knew he did some amazing things years before, not too many people acknowledged him back then.
I was glad when a couple of years later he would tilt his head at me when I returned after getting my PhD. He did this several times for me.
The two of us liked to spend time in Fine Hall’s large and mostly unoccupied tea room during other times besides the 4pm tea time.
He was the real thing in regards to what he did. Really was.
Forgot to say, that he died in a taxi ride on his return from Norway after getting the Abel Prize. This is a lifetime award that should be thought of as a Nobel Prize for math. There is no Nobel Prize for math. He shared this award with Nirenberg, who flew back from Norway with Nash and his wife from Norway. So tragic.
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