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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:19 am
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I just watched the best ad I've ever seen advocating seatbelt use on Facebook.I don't have a link but it was posted and possibly made by a Bill Leavens.I worked in a rehab facility for 30 yrs and saw many of the "lucky" people who survived car crashes(I don't call them accidents as most are not accidental but caused by human error).I've seen people left Paraplegics,quadriplegics,with permanent brain damage,disfigurement and any combination of the preceding outcomes.If 95% of these people had used seat belts they wouldn't have been as disabled as they were and in many cases could have walked away.Just taking 5 seconds to do a simple thing like fasten a seat belt could save your life or keep you from spending your life peeing through a tube or worse.

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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:30 am
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The first time I got on my big cruiser back in 2003 after 20 years of not riding... my first thought was "This thing doesn't have a seat belt!" :lol:

If I didn't ride motorcycles, I wouldn't have an occasional limp now. I can really tell when storms are on the way! :? :lol:

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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:18 pm
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VT BlackStrat wrote:
The first time I got on my big cruiser back in 2003 after 20 years of not riding... my first thought was "This thing doesn't have a seat belt!" :lol:

If I didn't ride motorcycles, I wouldn't have an occasional limp now. I can really tell when storms are on the way! :? :lol:

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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:24 pm
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It's probably this one...amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8PBx7isoM

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Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:26 pm
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Yep that's the one,certainly would make you think twice about going beltless.Thanks for the link.

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Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 3:45 am
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In the UK where I live the wearing of seat belts was made mandatory in 1983. Leading up to that law change there was a massive amount of noise from the anti-seat belt lobby, particularly regarding the civil liberties aspect of laws about personal behavior, and heavily laced with grim stories of amazingly rare examples of people unable to escape from burning vehicles due to jammed seat belts, and such.

The minute the legislation came in all the noise stopped - because death and injury declined visibly and immediately.

We have unusually low rates of road casualty in the UK by international standards: seat belts are reckoned to have saved an additional 370 deaths and 7000 injuries a year, which is well over a ten percent improvement (in a country of 61.5 million).

A few years later it became compulsory to wear seat belts in the back as well as the front seats: that was brought in with hardly a whimper of opposition.

Seat belts make sense.

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