[ARC5] Ever More OT: Seat Belts

[Richard Knoppow]

    I found the belts kept me from sliding around on the bench type 
seats in my old Chevy.  I have been in accidents where the belts 
probably kept me from being badly hurt.  I won't move a car unless my 
passengers are belted up. Air bags may help but my experience is that 
they may actually injure you. I wondered after my first experience with 
them why I was deaf after the accident until I realized they go off like 
a rifle shot.

On 11/18/2015 8:56 AM, gordon white wrote:
> Seat Belts:
>
>     Such a sad story. A bit like my late wife, Joan, who smoked two 
> packs a day. Back in the long-ago, before we  were married and I did 
> not know how bad cigarettes were, she made me promise, if she married 
> me I could not chivvy her to quit.
>
>     By the time the three kids came along, we knew how bad. While I 
> had promised, they had not. They begged her to stop. "Mommie you're 
> going to die!" they would say.
>
>     Did no good.
>
>     When they were in college she dropped dead of a heart attack. The 
> autopsy attributed it to the smoking.
>
> as to seat belts - when I got my license in 1949 seat belts in 
> passenger cars were not only not required, but were considered 
> bizarre. I was then now, as today, an auto racing fan.  The same month 
> I got my license, one of my heros, Rex Mays, former national driving 
> champion, was racing at Del Mar, California. His car hit the inside 
> fence and flipped, coming back to rest on its wheels with little 
> damage, but throwing Mays out on to the track. Though seat belts were 
> required in racing then, Mays refused to wear his. A following car hit 
> Mays and killed him. I immediately went to a local surplus shop, 
> bought a set of belts and put them in my car. I have found they hold 
> me in place during incidents that could have thrown me out of control, 
> though I have never had an accident so severe I could not drive home.
>
>  - Gordon White
>
>
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Richard Knoppow
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