One of my major worries is people riding without seat belts so for a school project I did a pharagraph for it. What do you guys think? Please pause my music and really read it. There are to many people that die from not wearing seat belts. Please read and if you don't wear a seatbelt mabey you might wanna wear them now. I don't know if this worries me because my dads a firefighter and tells me all the things that happen or because I've seen it to many times. Don't lose your life over something that could have been prevented.
Taken 4/22/08 at a
REAL accident
One of the lamest excuses you will ever hear in life is "I could drown or burn to death in a crash; so I don't wear a seat belt" or “It gave me whiplash” Here are the facts - Your seat belt is your “guardian angel”. Your chances of surviving a crash, any crash, are up to 70% better if you are wearing a seat belt. There will always be those who argue the fact, and there are also those that will argue the earth is flat.
In a collision there are four sub-collisions all taking place in sequence. First, the vehicle hits an object. The vehicle slows, but objects (people) inside continue at the same speed, in the same direction. Then the unrestrained body hits the interior of the vehicle, and starts to slow. That is considered the second collision. The body’s internal organs are still moving at speed until they hit the inside of the chest. The fourth collision is when your buddy who was riding in the back seat lands on your head, because he wasn’t wearing his seatbelt either and he kept moving at the same speed in the same direction. This is 100% true because of Newtonian physics. There are two major routes that unrestrained persons take in a front-end Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA), Up-and-over or down-and-under. With up-and-over, the upper body launches forward and up. The head strikes the windshield. Your injuries could include concussion, scalp laceration, and various brain bleeds. You can suspect fractured cervical vertebrae (and if you have a fracture with compromise to the spinal cord at C-4 or higher, you’ve lost the nerves that control chest expansion and the diaphragm. “C-4 and your dead. Go a little farther through the windshield, and it isn’t unexpected to leave some or all of your face behind stuck in the broken glass. If you go all the way out of the vehicle and in addition to whatever damage you took on the way through, you get the damage from hitting the ground, trees, and metal poles and anything else that’s around, at whatever miles-an-hour that your flying. Okay, now let’s look at down-and-under. In this one the patient goes forward and down, under the dashboard. Here’s where you’re going to find fractured femurs, broken knees, and compression fractures to the lower spine.
Let me just say briefly about being thrown clear, because it happens more often than you’d think. Any time you go to an accident and the windows aren’t rolled all the way up and unbroken, look 200 feet in all directions for the other patients. It’s hard finding them three days later when someone wonders why all those birds are over there, or when someone at the hospital wakes up enough to ask “Where’s Samantha?”
Seat belts stop you from going up-and-over or down-and-under, or out the window. Sure, seat belts can hurt you but they can also save your life. It only takes a second to crash - and only a second to buckle up. It's simple buckle up.
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