It shouldn't even be an option... (1274 hits)
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Submitted by j t <jcricket1120.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2004-04-28 20:20:26 EDT
On Thursday night, April 1st at 7:40pm, one of my best buds in the whole world, Tony was driving with his wife, Karen and his 21 month old son Anthony in the new, pimped out Ford Explorer with the tinted windows, 3 inch lift, and 20 inch rims.
They were driving 70 mph in the fast lane of the highway on their way to a nice little restaurant in Gulf Port, Mississippi.
All of a sudden, a car zooms by Tony on the lane to his right. The other car had to be going at least 110mph.
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The Ford Probe slammed into the back of Tony's Ford Explorer at 100 mph.
Because of the size and the speed of the Probe, the car had somehow, gotten itself partway under the back of Tony's Explorer. The driver of the Probe hit his breaks and sent the Explorer careening forward.
The Explorer swerved and ricocheted off of the guard rail on the left. The window on Tony's driver side exploded, sending shards of glass outward.
Tony tried to regain control of the vehicle as it skidded across two more lanes to the right.
He put on the emergency break and the Explorer veered to the side and went airborne.
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A) The Ford flipped a total of 4 times before it finally came to a stop in the ditch on the side of the road.
Tony's a really good driver, so they rarely wear their seat belts.
Unfortunately, he and Karen both did not have their seat belts on in this occasion. Karen also had baby Anthony in her arms at the time of the crash.
When the Explorer went airborne, Karen and baby Anthony were the first to be ejected through the smashed windows of the car.
Tony followed suite soon afterwards.
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The police arrived 15 minutes later to find the bloody, corpses of Karen and Anthony alongside the road.
They found Tony's body about 8 yards away from his wife and child. He was barely alive when the ambulance came, but he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Tony and Karen were 23 years old. Anthony would have been 2 years old on June 25th.
They were supposed to come back to Boston to celebrate with family and friends.
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B) The Ford flipped a total of 4 times before it finally came to a stop in the ditch on the side of the road.
Tony's a really good driver, but he doesn't trust any other stupid asshole on the road. He may currently be living in Mississippi, but Tony was born and raised in Mass and his whole driving career is in Mass. He's smarter than the average Masshole.
Tony and Karen thankfully always have their seat belts on and Anthony was safely secured in the back with the baby seat.
The car finally rolled to a stop and ended up laying flat on the driver's side.
Karen and Tony were suspended for a moment in the air until Karen undid her seatbelt and fell on top of Tony.
Anthony, still securely attached to the baby seat, was crying hysterically.
Tony unbuckled himself and kicked out what was left of the front windshield and he and his wife climbed quickly out of the car.
Tony tried to tear off the sun roof hatch to get to Anthony, but Tony was unable to get it off. He walked around the car to try and find another way in.
Karen grabbed the hatch and with sudden super-human strength, she managed to pull it off. She quickly climbed inside to get Anthony.
Tony thought, "oh shit" to himself and retrieved his cell phone to call 911.
At the hospital, Tony received treatment for the cuts to his face. It was lucky for them that the windows were tinted, otherwise the shattered glass would have did a lot more damage. Karen had minimal scratches to her and Anthony miraculously only had a little cut on his hand.
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I talked to him Saturday night about his whole ordeal.
I was happy that they were alive and safe, but after the phone call, I thought about what it would have been like if they weren't wearing their seat belts...
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I got so sad, I almost started crying.
Who knows what could have happened...
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My older brother still doesn't wear his seat belt because he's a "good" driver.
The stupid son of a bitch doesn't understand that that's not the point.
As good a driver as he is, there are too many dumb sons of bitches out there.
Questions:
How many of you or how many people that you know, still don't wear their seatbelts?
More importantly...
What is it going to have to take, before you learn?
Police charge driver who left accident scene (scroll down a bit)
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/8344756.htm
EDIT: The driver of the Ford Probe took off and left Tony and his family to die in the ditch. The cops caught him later and found a couple of ounces of heroin on him. He was racing another car at the time of the crash. What a pile of shit.
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Submitted by Badlands (user info) at 2004-06-07 09:14:08 EDT (#)
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Submitted by youarsoghey (user info) at 2004-06-06 00:08:38 EDT (#)
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Submitted by j0andre1 (user info) at 2004-06-05 23:58:29 EDT (#)
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Been in a couple highway accidents...
I used to never wear a seatbelt, however halfway through my first highway accident I put it on while the car was spinning around.
It's saved my life three times since then.
And I'm a Jew.
Submitted by BleedTheSky (user info) at 2004-04-29 08:20:49 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Kichigai (user info) at 2004-04-29 04:25:08 EDT (#)
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Submitted by intellismartness (user info) at 2004-04-29 02:41:23 EDT (#)
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The story read like one of those email forwards, but the message was there (and hey, if I could write an email-forward like message I'd exploit it too).
And seatbelts are also compulsory in Australia as well, heck, some cars won't even start up if you don't put it on beforehand.
Submitted by mystiamoon (user info) at 2004-04-29 01:30:50 EDT (#)
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Next time please don't make me scroll so much.
Good post.
That is all.
Submitted by jcricket (user info) at 2004-04-28 22:33:16 EDT (#)
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thanks for all of the positive comments from everybody, but thanks to zeccs especially.
i consider my "writing" to be mediocre at best, especially compared with everyone else on this site.
as to the specifics of tony's story, he told me quite some time ago and i just tried to recreate it as best as i could.
as to claiming that they would have all rolled out of the suv, who the hell knows what would have happened. the point is, do you want to find out? I mean come on, 4 times is a hell of a lot of times to roll.
this is not so much written for the actual style of the story, it's more for the message.
i needed people to feel sick to the pit of their stomachs as i did listening to my friend's story and thinking about the possibilities afterwards.
you were right on the money with the loaded words though and the deliberate use of emotional traps.
who's going to react to a story that says, "tony flipped over a bunch of times, but he and his family are well. wear your seat belts. :)"
and yeah, putting 20 inch rims and lifting an suv is retarded, but hell, tony is living in the south now... have you ever been to the south?
Submitted by Zeccs (user info) at 2004-04-28 21:47:43 EDT (#)
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First of all, things do not add up in this story. Basic physics for instance. A low to the ground car like a ford probe would go up under the back wheels of an SUV in a collision, but if it slammed on its brakes, it would not send the other car "careening forward" like you said.
Also, Tony's 6 inch lift and 20 inch rims he added to his already dangerous car made his car even more likely to roll over in a crash. Upseizing car wheels gives you more traction at low speeds, but makes your car more ridged and harder to control at high speeds, and raising an SUV is increadibly stupid because of their high centers of gravity.
Lastly, since the first scenerio was completely fictional, you are just using a severe logical falicy by claiming it to be what WOULD have happened if the people had not been wearing seatbelts. That combined with all the loaded words, and deliberate false emotional traps, make for horribly biased reasoning. This isn't good writing.
This is a exagerated scenerio with a post hoc'ed conclusion.
Submitted by wijormiclat (user info) at 2004-04-28 21:38:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This was really good.
Submitted by Herpes (user info) at 2004-04-28 21:37:39 EDT (#)
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Glad to hear your buddy is ok.
Great post.
Submitted by Festering_Corpse (user info) at 2004-04-28 21:11:57 EDT (#)
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something very close to this happened to me, no seat belt... I would be dead
Submitted by Kaelic (user info) at 2004-04-28 21:08:57 EDT (#)
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Great post.
Submitted by lokimustdie (user info) at 2004-04-28 20:56:40 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Lucifer_Industries (user info) at 2004-04-28 20:42:46 EDT (#)
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This was excellent writing. I wish more submissions to Ubersite were as well written as this. Good points also. I should start wearing my seatbelt.
Malone
Submitted by Trout (user info) at 2004-04-28 20:41:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Good work.
In Britain the wearing of seatbelts is compulsary.
The only people that don't have to wear one are taxi drivers, and since they're all cunts anyway everyones a winner.
Submitted by My_dixie_wrecked (user info) at 2004-04-28 20:40:37 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Nice post. S.U.V.'s eat my ass. They consume gas like I consume vaginal juice (that is to say alot), They roll over if a fuking insect flies into the side of them too fast and most importantly, they're usually driven by soccer moms who are trying to talk to onstar, yell at the kids, put on makeup, talk on cell phone, eat slim-fast bar (to try to shed a couple pounds), light a cigarette, change the radio station, roll down the window and if they get the chance drive. Fucking soccer moms. Sorry about your friend though.
Submitted by Dufflady (user info) at 2004-04-28 20:29:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You brought up a very important issue in a very creative way. Nice work.