How did you mount the seat belts. I,m interested in this for my TC. A
seat belt has already saved my life once my face once and my sons life.
None of these accidents were my fault. Seat belts save lives.
Ken Porter
TATERRY@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 97-09-08 15:35:26 EDT,
> CREICHLE@nsc.msmail.miami.edu
> (REICHLE, CHRISTOPHER) writes:
>
> << I know everybody has a story about someone who was thrown clear of
> a reck
> and walked away without a scratch because they weren't wearing a
> seatbelt
> but I believe they are the lucky few in very rare situations.
>
> Always wear your seatbelt. It's the law in most states anyway.
> Chris Reichle >>
>
> As some of you already know, I was involved in a very bad accident in
> my TA 3
> years ago...while motoring under blue skies in the Napa Valley at 4pm
> one
> afternoon, an unlicensed, uninsured polecat driving a 4 dr Chevy made
> his
> left turn right in front of me. I was going between 45 and 50 when I
> hit him
> in the rear door. I had my lap belt on otherwise I'd have flown out
> of the
> car with my seat back and landed on the tarmac....I could have served
> (maybe)
> and flipped the car. I chose not to do this....I got the steering
> wheel in
> the chest and the Brooklands left its four bolt heads imprinted on my
> chest
> for a couple of months and it broke my chest bone.....I broke all the
> spokes
> out of the steering wheel and bloodied my nose but it didn't
> break...The
> front of the TA crushed back bending and absorbing the energy and I
> was lucky
> it didn't kill me....I now wear a 3 point belt and I urge others to do
>
> likewise. You do not want to be a projectile hurdling down a highway
> or into
> other cars/trees etc. Sure you can conjure up wrecks where it would
> be
> better to be thrown clear but the odds are with staying in the car
> witha 3
> point belt on.
>
> Terry (with a TA rebuilt once again....thank you State Farm)
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