Seat Belts Save Lives

bkensinger

bkensinger

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After finishing a 500 mile tour one of our club members had a frontal crash. He walked away with a broken kneecap and forehead cuts. After nearly 50 years of ownership we installed seat belts just last year. Belts are a life saver.
 

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IMO, when we drive any car, even one of the latest with all of its crash avoidence tech, we are playing the odds. Seat belts move the odds in our favour by a long way.
Here, there are strict rules on seat belt installation. Thy have to be checked by an auto engineer and caertified as compliant - something near impossible in our cars. Never the less, I have them i all 4 of my Model As.
I would rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6, your honour.
 
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bkensinger said:
After finishing a 500 mile tour one of our club members had a frontal crash. He walked away with a broken kneecap and forehead cuts. After nearly 50 years of ownership we installed seat belts just last year. Belts are a life saver.
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Your comment is all about probabilities and cir***stances. IMO, based on many years of working on these cars, -AND seeing Model-As that have suffered collisions, I feel comfortable in saying this, ...if your Roadster had seat belts installed in the same manner as the Fordor, and was subjected to the same G-force impact as what this Fordor suffered, very likely the outcome might have not been so pleasant.

Based on most safety restraint belts I have seen installed in Model-As, more times than not they are not adequately installed to even restrain someone in a minor 1G crash. That Fordor has a very strong wood infrastructure whereas the Roadster has 19 gauge sheetmetal that is only riveted or screwed together. There is not any rigidity to a non-monocoque ***embly. Therefore many people have a false sense of security of protection from their Model-A's seat belt restraints.

I am very thankful your friends were able to live another day after this crash.
 
Y-Blockhead said:
Is this what it all comes down to now? If a word has a perceived a "Bad word" in it, we get ***... ie, ***embly??
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Just my thoughts on this. Anything can be taken too far. That includes political correctness. Here an *** is a donkey - that's it. What are you (AI) going to do about that, eh?
 
Synchro909 said:
Just my thoughts on this. Anything can be taken too far. That includes political correctness. Here an *** is a donkey - that's it. What are you (AI) going to do about that, eh?
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Sounds like a software update that has this "feature" turned on and Ryan forgot to turn it off.

Maybe we need a S****horpe List.
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It actually looks like a perfect crash. Good crumple zone at the front and a sold cage around the occupants.

Morgan cars in the UK are still built with wood frames and comply with modern crash tests. The reason is that the wood is flexible.
 
Sorry guys. Thanks to the FCC we are censoring words… I’m trying to figure out some code to turn the censor off for logged in users. Give me a few days.
 
updraught said:
It actually looks like a perfect crash. Good crumple zone at the front and a sold cage around the occupants..
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About 20 years ago I worked on some Ford videos - "The Truth About Trucks" They bought new Chevy, Dodge, Toyota and Nissan trucks and we tore them apart comparing quality, safety etc. Once the whole crumple zone and how things were designed you had a new respect for the engineering. It was controlled by little creases and divots in the stampings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syvo3ipeIdY


I'm always reminded of a Bill Cosby routine. He quipped that seat belts were there so the ambulance driver could find your body.
 
Synchro909 said:
fcc?
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From their webpage:

"The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. A U.S. government agency overseen by Congress, the Commission is the federal agency responsible for implementing and enforcing America’s communications law & regulations".
 
bkensinger said:
After finishing a 500 mile tour one of our club members had a frontal crash. He walked away with a broken kneecap and forehead cuts. After nearly 50 years of ownership we installed seat belts just last year. Belts are a life saver.
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What type of belt system did that Fordor have? (Waist or Shoulder)

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thanks Ryan
I would like to put belts in my 28ccpu.
but there is nothing except the back of the cab sheetmetal to fasten the over the shoulder belt to, any one fitted them to a cpu
Lawrie
 
I would like to know how that accident happened and how it could have been avoided. After almost being run into my a semitruck I would like to learn more about how to avoid accidents.
 
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