>In a message dated 19/05/2010 21:20:23 GMT Daylight Time,
cbking@alum.rpi.edu writes:
>In my experience, there's not a whole lot of time for ducking, diving,
whatever, during a rollover. BTDT, and >survived. The 3 point
retractable belts I installed worked fine during the rollover, and
probably helped promote >survival. IMO, a properly secured harness
would only improve this.
Limited experience, but memorable...one of which led to my Thicko
moniker "Blunt Head Trauma"...
'65 Mercury Caliente 289 convertible and many years later my '68 Midget
vintage racer on the track...
I would not have survived the Mercury being held upright by a 5-point
harness; I would probably not have survived the Midget NOT being held
upright. The roll bar is an important deciding factor between the two.
In the absence of any sort of restraint, I don't think I would have
walked away from either. As for "a whole lot of time," to me, it all
seemed in slow motion and there was time to try to put out my hands to
stop the car from rolling, wonder if my wife would notice the scratched
paint, and even duck for the space under the dash where the console was.
(Boy, those 60's Detroit radio knobs are SHARP instruments!)
--JohnD
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