[TunaHead]

I have almost 10 years of ambulance experience in my past, working in both southern and northen CA. *I have only seen one death where the driver was wearing a seatbelt and in that particular wreck he was going to die no matter whether he wore a restaint or not (car went 200+ feet down a steep, rocky embankment into a river).

On the other hand I've witnessed MANY people killed, paralized or with permanent brain damage because they weren't wearing a seatbelt and were ejected from a tumbling car.

When I worked in the ER I used to say that drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and people who don't wear seatbelts were my job security. *Not wearing a seatbelt is bad JuJu and a good way to remove yourself from the breeding population in a hurry.
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