MIKE Hunter's smaller car thesis??
"GO Mavs"...
>I have never been in a car without my seat belt on...
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> guess that is just how we were raised...
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> my parents both worked at a hospital though...
Bingo!
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> I always love those stories people tell you about "the doctor told me if i
> had my seat belt on, id be dead."
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> cough cough... bs cough cough...
Amen! Most of the time, that's exactly what it is.
Natalie
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> "WickeddollŽ" > wrote in message
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>> "Michael Pardee" ...
>>> Three years ago one of my wife's friends neglected to belt up before she
>>> got on the icy highway. The car slid off and she broke the passenger's
>>> door with her butt, fracturing a vertebrum. She was taken off in an
>>> ambulance and has only partially recovered so far - if she had been
>>> belted in she could have driven her car home.
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>>> Two years ago a friend was driving his work truck westbound from Phoenix
>>> on I-10. A car in the next lane and slightly ahead had a blowout at 75
>>> mph and the driver overcorrected, veering sideways in front of my
>>> friend's truck. With no time to react my friend's truck hit the car in
>>> the driver's door, sending it rolling madly down the freeway until it
>>> came to rest on its roof. All the glass was gone and the car was
>>> unrecognizable. The young woman driving it unfastened her belt and
>>> crawled out with just a cut on her hand. When she recovered some of her
>>> wits she started screaming, "My baby!" My friend and one of the others
>>> who had stopped crawled inside to find an infant in a baby seat in the
>>> center of the rear seat, looking puzzled. They unfastened the baby seat
>>> from the car and lifted it out. Mother and baby slept in their own beds
>>> that night instead of any of the awful alternatives.
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>>> Last year my wife's sister didn't notice the car in front of her had
>>> stopped. She hit the stopped car; she was unbelted and the steering
>>> wheel tore her liver completely in two. Her young daughter had belted
>>> herself in the passenger seat and was unhurt.
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>>> Somehow it really doesn't seem very hard to understand.
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>>> Mike
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>> You would think so, but apparently it isn't.
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>> I became even more of restraint fanatic after working in an Emergency
>> Room.
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>> I remember a New Year's Eve fatality with a 17-year-old girl, who, when
>> you looked at her body, there was barely a mark on her, but she died
>> instantly when her unrestrained head hit just the right part of the
>> inside of the car. (she wasn't drunk or high, either)
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>> What a waste.
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>> Natalie
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