Community Chat

[ValuSkr]

I wonder why she wasn't wearing the seatbelt.  I thought everyone did that now as a matter of habit.  At any rate, condolences to NBC10 anchor Keith Jones.

[bonnielu]

Hubby drives speed limit and with this said we are a target.  Drivers pass us at will, with what looks like anger---vegeance.  We would be safer speeding, weaving, jumping from lane to lane.  Sad to feel and say this but true.  Even the police who I have utmost respect for speed----never seen any of them driving within limits.  

[MaggieMack]

I am always surprised at the large number of people in my area who are ticketed after an accident for not wearing seat belts. It seems those same people are the ones cited for no insurance. I feel naked without my seatbelt secured. Our interstate speed limit is 80 but I never exceed 67 or so. I just cannot understand why people don't buckle up.

[Snoopp]

I usually slow down if weather conditions require it.  We probably have the speed limits set too high on many roads.

[Lipstickdiva]

Every article that I read about this when the accident first occurred indicated that she WAS wearing a seatbelt. 

Now some are saying she wasn't wearing a seatbelt.  I've also read in some reports that only the passenger side airbag deployed and some articles are saying both deployed.

None of the articles said she was ejected from the vehicle. 

[ValuSkr]

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@MaggieMack wrote:

I just cannot understand why people don't buckle up.

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Neither can I. It's for your own safety - who needs to be convinced??  And, by the way, she was a former Miss NJ, not the current title holder.

[Lipstickdiva]

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@ValuSkr wrote:

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@MaggieMack wrote:

I just cannot understand why people don't buckle up.

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Neither can I. It's for your own safety - who needs to be convinced??  And, by the way, she was a former Miss NJ, not the current title holder.

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Yes.  I believe she was Miss NJ in 2013.

[gardenman]

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@Lipstickdiva wrote:

Every article that I read about this when the accident first occurred indicated that she WAS wearing a seatbelt. 

Now some are saying she wasn't wearing a seatbelt.  I've also read in some reports that only the passenger side airbag deployed and some articles are saying both deployed.

None of the articles said she was ejected from the vehicle. 

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There's often confusion as a first responder is apt to undo the seatbelt to check on the condition of the victim and to be prepared to move them if need be and then subsequent responders find it undone and assume it wasn't fastened. Unless you're the first person on the scene you never really know. Even if you are the first responder, there's no guarantee the victim didn't undo the belt after the crash and before losing consciousness. I suspect modern in car computers can determine if it was fastened at the time of the crash, but unless you know that data, you can't really be sure.

[qvcfreak]

My condolences to the family, very sad news.

My car makes a dinging noise until you buckle up. But for me, wearing my seatbelt is force of habit already. I hate that my son unbuckles when we drive into our block and the dinging begins but I tell him, we can still get in an accident, most accidents happen very close to home.

[Lipstickdiva]

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@gardenman wrote:

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@Lipstickdiva wrote:

Every article that I read about this when the accident first occurred indicated that she WAS wearing a seatbelt. 

Now some are saying she wasn't wearing a seatbelt.  I've also read in some reports that only the passenger side airbag deployed and some articles are saying both deployed.

None of the articles said she was ejected from the vehicle. 

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There's often confusion as a first responder is apt to undo the seatbelt to check on the condition of the victim and to be prepared to move them if need be and then subsequent responders find it undone and assume it wasn't fastened. Unless you're the first person on the scene you never really know. Even if you are the first responder, there's no guarantee the victim didn't undo the belt after the crash and before losing consciousness. I suspect modern in car computers can determine if it was fastened at the time of the crash, but unless you know that data, you can't really be sure.

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I blame it on shoddy reporting and the need to be the first to report news and then half of it is wrong and it's corrected later.  But by that time, the false information is out there and oftentimes, that's what people remember.

The paramedics who arrived would have written up a report that would have indicated whether she had a seatbelt on or not. So it shouldn't be that big of a mystery.