>>My life was saved because I WASN'T wearing a seat belt. I had an accident when I was about 17, where a woman ran a stop sign and totalled the van I was driving. I don't know if I went out the windshielf or the door, because it knocked me out. But, I was thrown into the street and ultimately on the curb, while the van flipped over about three times and wound up wrapped around a tree. My parents came to the accident site after I had already been transported to the hospital, and my mother said she just knew I was either mangled or dead. All I had was scraped knees and a little bout with shock.
>>I can tell you without fear of contridiction, I wouldn't want to try that again, and if I had been wearing a seat belt, I would not be here today!
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>AYe, but if the same accident had happened on a motorway: 1) I doubt whethere your body would have reacted favourably to hitting the asphalt at 70 mph 2) you may have been thrown clear but right under the wheels of another car doing 70 mph.
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>There are always those who say something similar to you. There are also plenty of people for whom, the last thing that went through their minds, before death, was the head of the passenger behind them, who wasn't belted up.
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>I say "Clunk-click every trip" as an old TV ad in the UK used to say.


Oh, I wear a seat belt all the time now. I was just pointing out the fact that the government takes our liberties all the time and some of us don't mind and some do. I don't like being told I have to wear a seat belt, nor a motorcycle helmet, etc. I also think if I were to be stupid enough to smoke, I should be able to do that anywhere I want, so long as it doesn't offend anyone else, like out in the open air.