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Try explaining that to adolescent males in a group trying to proof that they are cool. Problem is, with too much peer pressure (and/or too much alcohol) they ignore known hazards and doing their best to help ensure the hazard will take place. Safety googles when working with angle grinders...

To summarize: seatbelts, certainly the modern three-point ones which extra tighten on impact, do save from injuries and death in 99% of the cases. However, there are freak situations where the seat belt may actually hinder your escape and maybe even result in your death while not wearing one...

The older I get, the more know thats not true. Now I am getting old (or at least pensioned) I just know I know nothing. And I am secure in that knowledge.

That's a good observation. I was watching the Ice Road Truckers, and you see these people jumping and being jostled around the cab on those bad roads. I think they are driving without seat belts as well and was wondering about that. Being thrown through the cab is not actually the best form of...

First, MTVR and your brother and al other LEOs and first line support people here, certainly in this times: :not worthy:. Forget about the words in the smiley, just see the bow: thanks to all of you for the very hard and difficult work you do under emotionally circumstances. In Europe, we...

Does a MWO applied to all trucks of that type makes it as of that moment, legally at least, an OEM issue? I would say that it is something similar to a factory recall for private cars.

Technical Manual (TM) MWO 9-2320-200-35-1 Modifying Working Order effective date 1 October 1988 and completion date is 30 November 1992. Modification of 2 1/2-Ton and 5-Ton vehicles. . My M51A2 got the seat belts while in the POMS depot in the Netherlands, in 1991.

Hit a concrete bridge part once in 1985, with 50 mph, something like an off-center frontal accident, on the driver side. Thought I could stretch out the hood and continue until I saw the front driver side. Front wheel was more or less folded against the cabin. I did not had anything apart from a...