seat belts?

[Just Plain Ruff]

I took the seat belt off a dead guy once, It just so happened that part of the engine was in his chest. He would have probably survived the wreck had he not have had a heart attack, coded and hit the semi head on.

[emtannie]

Sporty, google "seat belt statistics" and you will get several thousand hits on all kinds of studies showing that wearing seatbelts improves your chances of surviving an mvc by significantly more than not wearing a seatbelt.

Some sites:

http://www.car-accidents.com/pages/seat_belts.html (includes messy pics)

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/natio...02/08/76814.htm

http://www.tacsafety.com.au/jsp/content/Na...&pageID=168

Richard, that seatbelt video you are thinking of is this one, I think... I use it in my first aid classes, especially when it is high school students. I have it downloaded as a wav file - if you want it, pm me and I can email it to you.

[Richard B the EMT]

Yes, that is the video I referred to. Thank you.