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From: ben@moncol.UUCP (Bennett Broder)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: PISSED OFF (seatbelts)
Message-ID: <175@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 16:23:57 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 29 16:23:57 1985
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>     All production cars sold in the U.S. have to pass a 35 MPH barrier
>collision test.  This means that an instrumented dummy is belted in and
>the test car is propelled at 35 MPH into an unyielding barrier, and no part
>of the dummy can register forces above limits considered to represent death
>or serious injury.
>     In other words, it is next to impossible to kill yourself below 35MPH
>with your seat belt fastened.

Not at all true!!!  The US government only tests cars in a head-on
collision into a barrier.  How about hitting a barrier at a 45 degree
angle??  Or decapitating yourself in a collision with the back of
an 18 wheeler??  Although a seatbelt will almost always increase your
chance for survival in a serious accident, it is absolutely ludicrous
to suggest that it will guarantee it.

                                           Ben Broder
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