Good for you Phillip---now--after you get your medical bill and MY premiums
go up because you decided to take unnecessary risks, I'll send you my extra
premium.
I'm off this topic now. All I can say is take the risks---its your life
and your family's life--if you want to compromise them--feel free.
tom
> [Original Message]
> From: Philip S. Anson <pansonm1@maine.rr.com>
> To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Date: 11/1/2006 11:26:49 PM
> Subject: seatbelts & "safety"
>
> Can't resist coming out of my "lurker mode" (where I'm at almost all of
the
> time with regard to this list traffic) to comment on "safety" and how
> seatbelts relate to it. Whenever I'm in my car (1960 BT-7), I always
think
> of myself as being in a "4-wheel-motorcycle" and try to drive
> appropriately. Approximately 50% of motorcycle accidents are not the
fault
> of the rider, but are due to other factors (like not being seen). I
always
> (always) drive "defensively" (in other words, don't stop looking out for
the
> rest of the people on the road). Unless one is prone to pushing the
limits
> in one's vehicle (i.e. cornering hard enough to lose traction, trying to
> stop too soon for conditions, etc.), using seatbelts won't be all that
> helpful when it comes to avoiding injury in an accident. Our cars are
> unable to passively protect us like more modern vehicles with air bags,
> crush zones, collapsible steering linkage, and the like. I used to have
> seatbelts in the back for my kids when they were young, but more to keep
> them from climbing out than staying in place should we suffer a collision.
> About the only situation where I could envision seatbelts being helpful in
> regard to limiting driver & passenger injury would be in a sudden
> deceleration-type accident, such as striking a stationary object (like a
> tree, which hopefully one can avoid), or a head-on collision (if this
> occurs, it probably is more an example of "when your number's up,."). So,
> as you can surmise, I've foregone seatbelts for the present. .and I try
to
> stay out of the rain, off the wet leaves, driving slower than I used to
when
> I was younger, mostly in the daytime, & I'm still working on getting a
third
> brake light out there ('cuz that's my real fear - getting run down from
> behind - like a true motorcycle driver, I always think I'm fast enough to
> get out of the way of trouble ahead).
>
>
>
> Phil Anson
>
> BT-7
>
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