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A common excuse I ve heard people use when people don t buckle up is that they always belt up when driving on the highway. It s only in city traffic that they don t belt up apparently, but studies ....
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Police station, unbelted in a van. at the station, johnson complained that the officer was driving like a [ bleep ]. i fell and i can t move. taken to the hospital. he told the doctor, the wagon made a sharp turn. i fell, hitting face first. heard a pop and blacked out. phillip has filed two lawsuits against the baltimore police department. clearly it s not a problem with the vans. it s a problem with the van operator. like gray, johnson had a severed spine. he died two weeks later. dondi johnson s family filed a lawsuit against the department. at trial, officer leak who drove the police van testified i did not seat belt him because she thought he had a full bladder. she denied purposely giving him a rough ride. the johnson family was awarded a wrongful death verdict and won ....
Severe injury. in the middle moderate injury, and in the tail you would have been good if you were wearing a seatbelt. since the front of the plane basically got blown-out does that mean the fatal seats were what, rows one through seven in. yeah, about row 4 to row 10 was completely destroyed. gregg: wow. and seat 7a was catapulted straight out of the plane? like you might see in this kind of thing there was a giant debris field, several of the rows spread across the desert. gregg: some of the dummies were seatbelted but seated straight up, right? we had a brace-position dummy, some in the normal sit up position and some that were unbelted. gregg: and the people who were bent over, or the dummies bent over with like their head covered and so forth, they did the best? yeah, because the brace position dumb knee di dummy did the best. we did see ankle injuries. ....
Abc s jim avila reports. reporter: it happens more than 70,000 times a year. pilot reported moderate to severe turbulence, unstable air caused by colliding winds and temperature change. three-quarters of all weather-related accidents caused by rough air, shaking up the cockpit and cabin. i saw at least two people hit the ceiling. reporter: this is why the flight attendants are always pestering you to keep your seat belts on. in-flight turbulence causes more injuries in the air than anything else. and airlines don t like it either. it s expensive, costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars per incident. our wild ride had just begun. i m going to sit down. rough weather rarely brings a plane down but does cause a dozen serious injuries and a $500 million in damage in delays a year. this turbulence animation shows how the unbelted can achieve weightlessness. now a breakthrough. for the first time, a 3-d radar installed in business and soon, fleets of commercial jets. ....