Yes, it is a high figure, but everyone i know wears their seatbelt when they get in a vehicle. It is not secondary.
-- --- Martin Klingensmith http://nnytech.net/ http://infoarchive.net/ paul van den bergen wrote: >Do we all agree that it is too high a figure? > > > >aside: about 2 years ago there was a beatup media story here about airbags >killing dogs and children and it being safer not to install them. Turns out >the story was taken direct from the US news feeds without references to the >differences in driving behaviour between the US and Australia. Now, I don't >know this for sure, but I get teh impression that seatbelts are fairly much >regarded as optional in the US, where as in Australia they have been >compulsory for so long it is habitual. I was told the reason for the high >incident of airbag deaths was because in the US (with low seat belt use) they >were the _primary_ restraint mechanism (trigger threshold set at ~10 kph) >where as in Oz they are definitely the secondary restraint (trigger threshold >set at ~30 kph - I.e. will not deploy if the car is going less than 30 kph). > >Like I said I do not know if this is the whole truth, but there you go... I >for instance can see problems if you are a stationary vehicle being >impacted.... *shrug* > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/cjB9SD/od7FAA/uetFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
