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Sorry to hear about your accident. Hope everyone is ok.
Don
>
>You know I am sitting hear reading everybodies opinion on safety and seat
>belts and thinking to myself. Hear I was just in an accident last week
where
>my truck got totaled the accident was not my fault someone made a left out
>of a side street in front of me no way around except hit oncoming traffic
or
>the moron. I had my saftey belt on like always and both airbags went off.
My
>reaction though was to push myself back to avoid the air bags avoids the
use
>of the safety system but i didn't want to be burned by them. I will admit
>though vehicles now and days are much much safer. i was just glad I wasn't
>still driving the car due to I had it out earlier that day.
>
>TK
>
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>Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 4:02 PM
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>Subject: Re: [Chevelle-List] Watch out boys and girls
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>I don't think it should matter what percent costs us how much. The point
is
>people who choose not to protect themselve should not get any aid. There
>should be seatbelt and helmet requirements not laws. As in, you are
>required
>to wear it, if you choose not to and get hurt because of it, you're on your
>own. No government aid. No punishment for not doing it, but you are
>rewarded by doing it. More like a covenant, don't follow the rules, fine.
>But
>good luck.
>
>I don't know why people wouldn't wear a seatbelt anyway. Although with a
>nonretractable shoulder belt, as in my Chevelle, I can't reach the vent
>knobs
>and can barely get to the window crank, but I manage. So don't give me
crap
>about it being restrictive or uncomfortable.
>
>Tim.
>Proud Owner: '69 Chevelle
>
>On 22-Jun-2001 Steve Allen wrote:
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>> Frank Evan Perdicaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Check the REAL FACTS with the CDC, IIA, AMA and other organizations
>>> that collect REAL DATA, not opinions.
>>
>> NHTSA doesn't count?
>>
>> "According to a 1996 NHTSA study of 10 states, 24 percent of inpatient
>> hospital
>> costs are paid by Medicare, Medicaid, and other government sources. NHTSA
>> estimates that if seat belt usage rates for front seat passengers in
>> automobiles and light trucks were to increase from the present 68 percent
>> to 85 percent, Medicare and Medicaid would save $275 million a year.
>> With a 90 percent use rate, the savings would total $356 million a year!"
>>
>>
>http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/airbags/presbelt/everyone_problems.h
t
>ml
>>
>>
>> Oh, hey, the CDC says:
>>
>> "Editorial Note: In 1983, nearly 30,000 occupants of automobiles died on
>U.S.
>> highways. Only 484 (2%) were reportedly wearing seat belts (1). Seat
belts
>> could prevent at least 60% of serious injuries to older children,
>teenagers,
>> and adults in automobile collisons (2). Similarly, properly used child
>> restraints could prevent virtually all serious injuries to infants and
>> younger children (3)."
>>
>> http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000596.htm
>>
>>
>> "Universal Motorcycle Helmet Laws *Reduce Costs to Society*"
>> (Emphasis in the source)
>>
>> "Helmet Laws Reduce Public Payout Helmet laws significantly
>> reduce the strain on public resources. Unhelmeted riders cost more to
>treat
>> at
>> the hospital, spend a longer time in rehabilitation, and are more likely
>to
>> require some form of public assistance to for pay medical bills and
>> rehabilitation. In 1991, prior to enacting its helmet law, California?s
>state
>> medical insurance program paid $40 million for the treatment of
>> motorcycle-related head injuries. That figure dropped to $24 million
after
>> enactment of a universal helmet law."
>>
>> http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/pedbimot/safebike/costs.html
>>
>>
>> More from the CDC:
>>
>> "safety belts are 45%--60% effective in reducing deaths and 50%--65%
>> effective
>> in reducing moderate-to-critical injuries (21)"
>>
>> 21. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Traffic safety facts
>> 1999:
>> occupant protection. Washington, DC: US Department of Transportation,
>> National
>> Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2000; publication no. DOT HS 809
>090.
>>
>> http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5007a1.htm
>>
>>
>>
>> What was that you said about checking facts?
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I know the old saw about "lies, damn lies and statistics", and that
>> for every source that someone pulls up that shows one opinion, someone
can
>> pull up one that says the exact opposite.
>>
>> Let's see _your_ links.
>>
>>
>> ~Steve
>>
>>
>> --
>> Steven R. Allen - SGI Admin Weenie
>> http://www.eskimo.com/~wormey/
>>
>> Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly.
>> It just happens to be selective about who it makes friends with.
>>
>> The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. -- Homer
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