I don't think anyone would survive inside ant truck that fell/rolled 800 ft. Those that did survive did so by being tossed early. This is not the first accident I have heard of where not wearing seatbelts allowed one to survive.
Here is an update on what happened.
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E53%257E2324397,00.html
" The initial investigation has ruled out ...alcohol consumption as possible causes"
No matter how skilled a driver you are (as was the driver in this incident) and what SUV you are driving, driving under the influence in an unfamiliar road nonetheless AND neglecting to wear seatbelts is an accident waiting to happen.
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I don't think anyone would survive inside any truck that fell/rolled 800 ft. Those that did survive did so by being tossed early. This is not the first accident I have heard of where not wearing seatbelts allowed one to survive.
This is such BULL HOCKEY ! It's this kind of asinine thinking that got 2 people killed and 2 children almost killed, 1 will probably not make it, and 2 girls left without parents! Your willing to go out on a limb to say that the 1 that lives is because he was NOT wearing his seatbelt, but at only 25% survival your saying that you KNOW that it's better than whatever they may have encountered with a solid steel cage around them and air bags, and safety restraints, and cusioned seats padding part of their fall !?!?!?
"People can't survive hitting a brick wall at 200 MPH!" - oh wait - race drivers do it every week because they have restraints! Anyone who has EVER thought about this rationally comes up with the same reasoning - some protection is better than none. Throwing your unprotected body off a cliff at say 30MPH and thinking you will survive better than rolling a well built heavy duty truck down it is just ludicrous! Your probably the kind of guy that thinks that surviving a 25 story fall in an elevator is simple - "just step off right before it crashes!"
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Find me one statistic that states that passengers thrown from a vehicle have a greater survival rate then belted ones in any modern vehicle and I'll eat my words.
A real tragedy. I hear it all of the time on the news- people being killed in car crashes, that were NOT wearing their safety belts. Your chances of survival is much higher if you are fastened in.
FASTEN YOUR SAFETY BELTS.
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Mickey,
You're 100% correct. I live 10 miles from the accident scene and the only thing that could have saved those folks would have been parachutes. The local paper said 1300ft. fall and explosion upon impact.
I wear a seatbelt 99.99% of the time. The other .01 is when I might have to bail....Remember the scene in Rebel Without a Cause?
While I am a firm believer in seat belts, I am against the legislation of personal safety. You can fine parents who don't buckle up kids under 16 and you can refuse insurance claims without seatbelts, but if a person doesn't want to buckle up it's their life. What's next, fining overweight people at McDonalds? Let people do whatever they want, limit financial impacts by reducing claims, and let Darwin take care of the rest.
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