Re: Street Racing and its outcome
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"I'm in the same boat, Ed. If I had been wearing my seat belt I would I would have been decapitated. "
Not to preach as I have done very stupid things in my past as well, but the testimonials from very lucky people (I'll call then one percenters) who survived because they were not wearing seat belts are statisticly invalid. (Well, not to them but for others). My reasoning is this: The problem is you never hear any testimonials from the 99% of the other side who died as a result of not wearing that seat belt. Having been to variety of ugly scenes I can say it is an accurate quote that I hear from law enforcement people: "I've never had to unbuckle a dead guy". If I had the 99% chance of surviving by wearing the belt versus the 1% chance of surviving by not wearing it, I'd stick with the good odds.
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