Please

[Chris]

wear your seatbelts and make sure that your friends & loved ones do as well.

I got the easy duty this morning as the nine year old that I worked on was not severely injured. Although, if you are nine, 100+ stitches is probably 'severe'. His mother, older brother, and himself were wearing their seatbelts. They will all survive. He is a smart, brave boy who figured out that the rest of the firefighters were setting up an LZ for the medivac helicopter and that this was not a good sign.

His family is gathering as we speak at our local trauma center to attend the imminent death of his twelve year old sister who had removed her seatbelt. She was found 70 feet from the vehicle.

If you are already in the habit... please accept my apologies for preaching. If you are not, please try.

I have just returned from the scene, the adrenalin has worn off, the tragedy has started to sink in, trying to write some code is not going well, and I had to say something. Thanks for listening.

Chris.

Not speaking for B3D.

 

[micron]

I understand your need to speak on the subject. I'm sorry to hear about what happened....

 

[indio]

wear your seatbelts and make sure that your friends & loved ones do as well.

I got the easy duty this morning as the nine year old that I worked on was not severely injured. Although, if you are nine, 100+ stitches is probably 'severe'. His mother, older brother, and himself were wearing their seatbelts. They will all survive. He is a smart, brave boy who figured out that the rest of the firefighters were setting up an LZ for the medivac helicopter and that this was not a good sign.

His family is gathering as we speak at our local trauma center to attend the imminent death of his twelve year old sister who had removed her seatbelt. She was found 70 feet from the vehicle.

If you are already in the habit... please accept my apologies for preaching. If you are not, please try.

I have just returned from the scene, the adrenalin has worn off, the tragedy has started to sink in, trying to write some code is not going well, and I had to say something. Thanks for listening.

Chris.

Not speaking for B3D.

As someone that works in the transportation industry this is too true. A seat belt will save you from death or injury. Not might ... WILL . The average american will be in atleast one serious accident in their life time. Driving is the most dangerous thing we do. Most people know this but it doesn't sink in. Driving is the most dangerous activity to perform in America. Please use the proper safety equipment.

 

[jvd]

Yes and with a big holiday in the states coming up this weekend make sure you don't drink and drive. My friends and I are having a party at my place (dinner and some drinks) jumping in the pool and then walking to the local bar two blocks away . After that its back to my place to sleep . No driving this weekend.

 

[micron]

Sounds like fun jvd, wish I could join ya

 

[jvd]

Sounds like fun jvd, wish I could join ya

come on over haha . No clue how many people will end up here. It may just be me and my friend jess . Last year i had 40 people over haha . Alot of the friends are way . Traveling the world before real life starts.

As a matter of fact i'm pretty lonely out here in new jersey. I might need to take a road trip some where or something . Or find a movie partner. Or another gf haha. But women seem to run away from me alot

 

[micron]

Lol, fireworks are illegal in the county I live. So if you get to have fireworks where you live, you will certainly have more fun then I......

 

[jvd]

I got fireworks on the way up from florida. I will have more fun but i have to light them and run far away from them otherwise the cops will get mad


Btw new york is now .8 instead of 1.0 for blood alchool content. So watch out for that .

 

[micron]

i have to light them and run far away from them otherwise the cops will get mad

I guess that means you cant light the big ones on fire and jump through the sparks naked......(I had to stop drinking)

 

[jvd]

i have to light them and run far away from them otherwise the cops will get mad

I guess that means you cant light the big ones on fire and jump through the sparks naked......(I had to stop drinking)

No i have to much important equipment located under my clothes to risk damage to it .

 

[Crusher]

I don't think a person truely appreciates seat belts until they've been hanging upside down by one. Buckle up.

 

[Chris]

Thanks to all of you who repsponded.

The girl who was critically injured passed on this morning surrounded by family.

Members of the Police, EMS, & Fire depts got together tonight and talked it out. A lot of us feel better.

On a lighter note I've got a quick quiz for you all:

Fact 1: Our fire dept had a total of eight calls in the month of May.
Fact 2: I have responded to fifteen fire calls in the last seven days.

Quiz: Are fireworks legal where I live?

Y'all have a great weekend.

Regards, Chris.

 

[Ichneumon]

Many years ago I had been pushing myself too hard, doing too many things in too many places on not enough sleep.

I started dozing off at the wheel doing 70mph on the highway on my way to where i was headed... when i snapped awake I overcorrected my steering, which sent me out of control into a bridge support.

I walked away without even a bruise, and it was only because I was wearing my seatbelt (a habit i've always been in thankfully).

The police officer who pulled up only a few minutes after it happends was astonished... usually accidents they have to deal with like that are far, far more serious. (lol, I was actually out, walking around the car by that time trying to assess the damage... well, what was left of the car)

I'm quite sure I was assisted in my survival by the fact I was driving a Volvo... '84 760 at the time... I still drive one today, and wear my seatbelt. There is nothing that can save your life in a car like your seatbelt... no airbag, front, side, anything...

It takes no thought.
get yourselves in the habit of *always* wearing your seatbelts. please.


(pardon the preaching... but it just doesn't sink in with folks it seems until it saves their lives...)

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

Chris, you are right.
Seatbelts DO save lives.

Of course, if you want to count for every single life lost on the road there have been a few people who were killed by wearing a seatbelt. Ironic isn't it? (am I still polluting the English language? )

The news item was posted either here or on nVNews or 3dGPU. Can't remember as it was a while ago.

The seatbelt strangled them.

 

[jvd]

My father never wore a seat belt (well still doesn't unless we yell alot ) but he allways made me put mine on. So from as long as i can remeber i had a seat belt on b efore the car even started and now i force everyone that comes with me to do the same .

 

[micron]

I'm quite sure I was assisted in my survival by the fact I was driving a Volvo...

Yea, everyone know's Volvo's are awsome for safety. These days they're not bad looking either.

 

[jvd]

I'm quite sure I was assisted in my survival by the fact I was driving a Volvo...

Yea, everyone know's Volvo's are awsome for safety. These days they're not bad looking either.

Yea when i first got my liscense in 99' i was driving a 88' volvo. I made a left turn started to accelrate , hit leaves in the rain. I spun out slightly into the other lane and took a 4 runner (it was an old one) head on. The 4 runner was totatled but i could drive the volvo home. With that being said in sept I'm trading in my mercades and buying the new volvo suv . I love my mercades don't get me wrong but the insurance is sky high for me and i'd rather have the off road car. Esp since my 94 jeep cherokee is having problems.

 

[Simon F]

Btw new york is now .8 instead of 1.0 for blood alchool content. So watch out for that .

That sounds high! In Australia, IIRC, it's 0.08 BAC.

 

[Simon F]

As someone that works in the transportation industry this is too true. A seat belt will save you from death or injury. Not might ... WILL . The average american will be in atleast one serious accident in their life time. Driving is the most dangerous thing we do. Most people know this but it doesn't sink in. Driving is the most dangerous activity to perform in America. Please use the proper safety equipment.

In the UK (which I must admit always seems to lag behind Australia in terms of safety) they have recently been running a TV advert' on using seatbelts in the back seat. It features a mother driving her kids with the voice over saying something like " like many people, Mrs <blah> knew her killer.... it was her son". She accidently rear-ends another vehicle and her son flies into the back of her head. Grim, but it gets the point across.

 

[jvd]

Btw new york is now .8 instead of 1.0 for blood alchool content. So watch out for that .

That sounds high! In Australia, IIRC, it's 0.08 BAC.

simon mabye i meant .08 and it used to be .1 Not to sure off the top of my head. I was drinking when that was on