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From: john@gcc-bill.ARPA (John Allred)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: If you could save lives, would you?
Message-ID: <350@gcc-bill.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 5-Oct-85 14:02:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: gcc-bill.350
Posted: Sat Oct  5 14:02:36 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 7-Oct-85 05:45:51 EDT
References: <2778@harpo.UUCP> <150@emacs.uucp> <350@zaphod.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@gcc-bill.UUCP (John Allred)
Organization: General Computer Company, Cambridge Ma (Home of the HyperDrive)
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Keywords: seatbelts airbags

In article <350@zaphod.UUCP> dkatz@zaphod.UUCP (Dave Katz) writes:
>In article <150@emacs.uucp> pz@emacs.UUCP (Paul Czarnecki) writes:
>>...
>>
>>Witness Rick Mears' (professional race driver) ...
>>
>>Witness Pat Bedard's horrible accident at Indy two races ago. ...
>>
>>Need I go on?  None of these drivers had air bags.  Seatbelts were
>>sufficient in these ultra high speed accidents.
>>
>
> (various comments on how Indy car accidents are not a good comparison)
>
>What I mean to say is YES - SEAT BELTS CAN SAVE LIVES, but don't use
>such special cases as proof.

Well, here's a different kind of proof.  I am a Texas EMT and volunteer 
fireman.  Of all the nasty accidents I've had to work, I, as the police always
say, "have never unbuckled a dead person."
-- 
John Allred
General Computer Company 
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