On Sunday, September 22, 2002 at 13:07, James N. McBride
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wrote re "RE: [OM] [OT] Doin' the Airbag Bash" saying:
...
> I saw some interesting data on cost a while back. If all the lives
> claimed to have been saved, by air bag proponents, were indeed saved by
> the bags the cost would amount to about $ 19,000,000 per life. If most of
> those lives would have been also saved by the seat belts the economics
> get interesting. What do you think about the function of your bag John?
> Do you think the seat belt would have been enough protection without the
> bag?
...
How about injury prevention benefits too?
Still, the only survivor of Princess Di's crash was the guy in the
"suicide" seat (front passenger) who was the only one to have done up his
seatbelt.
tOM--
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