"ScottM" <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Bruce L. Bergman" <blnospambergman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:45:06 -0700, "ScottM" <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>> An aquaintance and friend of a friend lost her life about 3 years
ago
> >>> in a very minor traffic incident in Toronto when the bag went off
and
> >>> broke her neck. She was only 4'11" - and could NOT get an exemption
to
> >>> allow her to have the bag disconnected. Her death has made it
possible
> >>> for shorter drivers to LEGALLY have air bags dissabled in Ontario
now.
> >>> There was NO VISIBLE EXTERNAL DAMAGE to her car, and according to
> >>> investigators it did not go off "prematurely" It was just a fluke
that
> >>> it went off - but the results were predictable given her size.
> >>>
> >>> I don't think air bags and antilock brakes, along with miriad other
> >>> so-called"features" on today's cars should be mandated as standard
> >>> equipment - or even encouraged as "recommended" equipment.
> >>> People should learn to drive - - - - -.
> >>> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com
**
> >>
> >>So you can get thrown in jail for disabling your own airbag in your
own
> >>car?
> >
> > No, but the automakers want to make it non-trivial to disconnect
> > them. You can if you have a good reason, and you sign a form stating
> > you are doing it on your own.
> >
> > The automakers don't want to disconnect them, and then get sued by
> > your heirs and estate for the fatal accident where the airbags did NOT
> > go off... Doesn't matter that you wanted the airbags disabled, if
> > they do it (or even allow it) and can't prove your intent, they could
> > lose big damage awards.
> >
> >>Thats BS, kinda like seat belt tickets and helmet laws.
> >
> > Actually, there is a compelling reason to require basic safety
> > measures: Because when you get in the accident without seatbelts, or
> I'll have to disagree on the helmet law thing, I think more often you'll
end
> up dead without it. You hit your head on something in a motorcycle
accident
> without a helmet I think its a given your brains wont stay in your
skull.
> With the helmet you break your back or neck and and that's when you end
up
> completly disabled.
I ride daily and your full of ****, this kind of thing was disproved by
the
Hurt re****t among others.
The reason helmets save lives is that most serious motorcycle accidents
involve sliding forces where there's a lot of skin abrasion, or tumbling
where arms and legs are flailed out and tend to snap.
People can survive a lot of skin abrasion and a broken bone or two
if they have no other major injuries.
But add in a concussion and there are now more than 2 severe injury
areas and the body can't recover from that, and they die.
Modern motorcycle body armor is very good at protecting against
the broken neck and broken back thing.
> AND, to tell you the truth I don't really care either way, I don't think
its
> right to mandate such things.
Helmets ARE NOT mandated in ANY state in the country for private
roads. If you own the road you can do what you want.
But when your on the public road, you must follow the rules of the
road that the majority of people using that road have all agreed to
abide by. Such as, driving a car with headlights on at night, driving
on the right side of the road, (except if your in the UK), etc. The
helmet law is absolutely no different than the law requiring you to
drive on the correct side of the road, or the law requiring you to
stop at a red light.
People that cannot learn this basic fundamental fact eventually
get ticketed, and if that doesen't explain it to them, they get more
tickets, eventually having to pay higher insurance rates, and so on
and so forth. This is basic Road Use 101 which you should have
learnt in Drivers Ed.
As for the airbags - they are SRS devices. Supplemental Restraint
System devices. They were NEVER intended as a primary restraint,
they only are for morons who don't wear seat belts.
Ted
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