You ever see those Red Asphault films?
I came back from South Carolina this last weekend. On I26 in SC I saw 2 wrecks where the troopers had arrived but the ambulance had not. In the first wreck a car had left the road, shot straight up a steep hill and gotten stopped by trees not 50' off the shoulder. That had to be a massive impact. The second was a blue pickup that went into the 100 yard wide median and fortunately rolled before it entered oncomming traffic.
But anyway, the human body turns into a 200# lump of Jello brand gelatin in a real wreck. A car is built to contain you in a little cage while your arms and legs flop around ridicoulously. If you choose to leave your belt off, you will exit the cage and your weak flesh will be scraped off of the surroundings by puking public servants. Seatbelt and helmet laws are for the poor bastards that have to scrape you up. Nobody give a damn if you kill yourself. They hate the mess.
Seriously, one time in my skoolie we were passing a nasty wreck and a truck driver pulled out and came up along side me to shield the windows from the carnage. Then he dropped back behind. I wished I had a CB to thank him.
You are either completely uninformed (ignorant) or completely stupid if you think your odds are improved by removing the strap that holds you in the cage.
I lived in Oceanside, California in '95-'96. That highway, is it I-5?, is the fastest stretch of highway in the country. It connects San Diego and Los Angeles. I had something like a 26 mile drive to work--about 10 miles was on I5 between Mission and the Pulgas exit. I easily did 100mph for that stretch every morning.
I was the first one on a scene one evening on my way home. A lady passed me at some incredible speed, then blew a tire, stepped on the brake, tail spun briefly into the median and the cables in the median sawed her car up stopping her. I ran for her car while my friend ran for the roadside phone (before cellphones) and I had to rip the top half of the door off to get into her car. Inside I sat with her. The top cable had sawn through the A pillar and then into her head. She was gurgling but the bleeding was massive and blood was drizzling onto the ground. Outside the window a CHP officer was saying, and I remeber it clearly "If you touch her you might get sued" and I'm thinking, what would I do anyway? For most of us we come upon these things a few times and mostly we are never the first. A state trooper sees it all the time, knows whether or not seatbelts are better than no seatbelts and do what the EMT and troopers do.
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Right on, man. Well said.
