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From: canopus@amdahl.UUCP (Frank Dibbell)
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Subject: Re: Seat belts
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Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 12:30:03 EST
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> From: <335@calmasd.UUCP> (G. B. Hanrahan)
> I think it's pretty well established that it's smart to wear a
> seat belt.  But if I don't wear a seat belt, I'm not endangering
> anyone but myself. 

  Not true in every case.  An unbelted rear-seat passenger in a head-on
collision can seriously injure or kill the driver/front passenger.
Unbelted passengers become deadly missiles bouncing around inside a
vehicle much as a brick would (ever see two heads collide at 35mph?
kinda like a watermelon dropped from two stories).
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