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Old Sat Mar 03, 2012, 01:48am
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OT--Wear Your Seatbelt!

As officials, we do A LOT of driving during the season. Some long distances in bad weather, and often late at night.

I wasn't on the way to a game tonight, but I got in a car accident, and all four of us having seatbelts on certainly saved us from more serious injuries.

Don't forget to wear your seatbelts on the road!
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Old Sat Mar 03, 2012, 02:23am
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Sorry to hear that, but glad you are OK. I was in a car accident too earlier and these things sometimes are out of your control. Again glad you are in OK, cars can be replaced.

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Old Sat Mar 03, 2012, 02:30am
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Sorry to hear that, but glad you are OK. I was in a car accident too earlier and these things sometimes are out of your control. Again glad you are in OK, cars can be replaced.

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It was definitely out of my control. My dad, our driver, was going through an intersection when some idiot pulled out in front of us trying to turn left. I'm down near ISU, we were on the way to St. Louis.
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Old Sat Mar 03, 2012, 12:51pm
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Seatbelts Save Lives ...

I was involved in a head-on collision while on my way to a game about thirty years ago. Back then, Connecticut did not have a mandatory seat belt law, and I wasn't wearing one. Upon impact I went over, and to the right, of the steering wheel, and ended up smashing against the dashboard, with my head halfway through the windshield.

I was in the hospital a few days. After leaving the hospital I went to retrieve my personal belongings from my totaled car. The steering wheel was buried against the driver's seat. No air bags back then. If I had been wearing a seatbelt, my chest would have been crushed by the steering wheel, and I probably wouldn't have survived the crash.

That was a one in a million situation, one in which wearing a seatbelt would have resulted in a situation far worse than not wearing a seatbelt. I fully realize that I was very lucky that day, that the situation was a one in a million, and now I wear my seatbelt very time I get behind the wheel.
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