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goddessfarmer ([personal profile] goddessfarmer) wrote2007-07-19 08:58 pm

Wear your F$#!ing seat belt!

Last week some of you saw this post. The very next day after that a young (31yr) riding instructor that I knew and had taught Alice died in a head-on collision on a 40 mph 2-lane road. She got hit head-on by a 17 year-old who swerved into her lane. If she had been wearing her seat belt the would have probably lived. This info comes 4th hand from the first EMT at the scene who is a friend of the husband of one of the ladies who boards her horse at my barn.  The kid may have been using a cell phone (rumor) or may have swerved to avoid something in the road (what is rumored to have been told to the police). 

WEAR YOUR SEAT BELT!

[identity profile] deguspice.livejournal.com 2007-07-20 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
The Boston Globe seems better about mentioning if the occupants were wearing their seat belts. Too often I'll read "XXX wasn't wearing her seat belt and was killed when thrown from the car. Also in the car were YYY and ZZZ, who were wearing their seat belts and had minor injuries that didn't require transportation to a hospital."
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[identity profile] perspicuity.livejournal.com 2007-07-20 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
they never say "killed while wearing a seatbelt" do they?

and they marvel at the "thrown from the car and lived, would've died if IN the car..."

and don't get me started on biased reporting for alcohol/impairement (unless you're a cop), motorcycles and helmets, and "speed played a factor" ...

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[identity profile] deguspice.livejournal.com 2007-07-20 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
They do mention people who were killed wearing seat belts. However most of the time where there's a fatality and survivors in the same car, it was the person who wasn't wearing the seat belt who was killed.

[identity profile] koshmom.livejournal.com 2007-07-20 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Recently we heard from the police about their investigation of my friend's death last week. Apparently, her family always insisted that they were always careful about wearing seat belts, so why wasn't she wearing one? The answer might be that she had some sort of headset/earfob/something connected to a music player (ipod? Telephone?) that was found totally wrapped around the seat belt. So instead of thinking she fell asleep, she may have decided to, while driving, either unclick her belt to reach over to pick up something, or unclick the belt to untwist the cord from the belt. While she was distracted in those few minutes of no-seat-belt-wearing, she had the accident.