[Spridgets] Why I wear seatbelts...

[Robert Duquette]

I did one of those too.  I was sitting in the centre of the back seat when 
the driver went hunting for oak trees on a corner and got a few.  There 
wasn't a law about belts in the back, so I wasn't wearing any.  I lost a 
strip of scalp on the dome light while on my way to smash the heater 
controls with my face.  I broke 4? teeth (root canal surgery), my nose, and 
dislocated my jaw.  The 2 guys in the front were uninjured.  ( except that 
one guy slightly sprained his ankle from pushing on the floorboard )

I always wear my seatbelt now.

----Original Message Follows----
From: David Booker <tncarnut1 at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: tncarnut1 at yahoo.com
To: spridget <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Subject: [Spridgets] Why I wear seatbelts...
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:54:28 -0800 (PST)

--- On Mon, 11/17/08, WeslakeMonza1330 at aol.com <WeslakeMonza1330 at aol.com>
wrote: "I've  been in two bad ones that would have killed me had I been
wearing a
belt."

Daniel,
I too have been in a few bad ones, both belted and unbelted (always as a
passenger thank you, and no I don't ride with those guys anymore).  The 
first
one was unbelted - I got tossed around the interior of an F350, hitting 
about
every surface that could be hit with a wonderful sampling of my body parts: 
my
head left a dent in the roof, my shoulder cracked the windshield, and my 
back
bent the steering wheel...  I limped away bruised and stiff and was sore for
weeks afterward - but luckily I limped away under my own power.  In a couple
of others, both head-on into stationary items - I came out with no more than
bruised shins from the underside of the dash in the first and a slight belt
bruise on my right shoulder in the other.  Point is that in both cases these
minor injuries were preferable to the alternative short flights
through windshields followed by abrupt landings.

Since the day of the first one, I ALWAYS belt in and am probably only here 
now
because of that choice.

  - David Booker
'71 Midget
Long Island