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re: Question about seatbelts ... can they come disloged in an accident?
Posted on 1/31/15 at 12:21 pm to Flamefighter
Posted on 1/31/15 at 12:21 pm to Flamefighter
My dad was Mech Eng. Profossor for 45 years and a ME Consultant/Exp. Witness for about 30 of those years and still consults.
I used to help him test all kinds of stuff that had Mech failures for cases. I don't recall ever helping him with a seat belt failure. He wouldn't be hired if it was an obvious failure like a tear. Automotive it was mostly claims of failed air bag systems and brakes.
Most of his cases were 1000 Ways to Die kinda stuff. Lady cruising down I-55 and gets a bush hog blade to the head from guy cutting right of way. Log trucker stops along the highway to throw a cable over the logs and hits the high voltage power line.
I used to help him test all kinds of stuff that had Mech failures for cases. I don't recall ever helping him with a seat belt failure. He wouldn't be hired if it was an obvious failure like a tear. Automotive it was mostly claims of failed air bag systems and brakes.
Most of his cases were 1000 Ways to Die kinda stuff. Lady cruising down I-55 and gets a bush hog blade to the head from guy cutting right of way. Log trucker stops along the highway to throw a cable over the logs and hits the high voltage power line.
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Posted on 1/31/15 at 1:37 pm to weadjust
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bush hog blade to the head
Sorry to hi-jack the thread but this sends chills up my spine because it almost happened to me.
Forunately I was in my truck - higher from the ground - on a narrow two-lane rural road in LA and came over a hill and met a flatbed truck hauling a bush hog = with the blade down - covered the whole lane, I immediately turned to the ditch and the tip of the blade hit my front left headlight and bent it upward enough that it didn't come thru the windshield. thank God the ditch was wide and shallow.
bush hog may not be the right name - it was one of those horizontal scissor blades like a hedge-trimmer.
This post was edited on 1/31/15 at 1:39 pm
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