Vic 4wd Fatality

I'm not prepared to speculate on what caused the tragedy, but I'd venture the opinion that the driver wasn't wearing a seatbelt.

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Originally Posted by AK83

......there are far too many idiots that don't really deserve the opportunity to be allowed certain privileges.

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I was literally two seconds away from a head-on at highway speeds this afternoon.

Rural highway with lots of hills and double white lines. All I saw was a little blue buzz box frantically trying to get back onto his/her side of the road - the swerve had it nearly tipping over - because he/she was overtaking a push bike just below the crest of a hill. It all happened so quickly that I had no time to react. With me being in a tall car I think he/she saw me before I saw her/him and this provided those precious couple of seconds for him/her to react to my presence and try to get back on to his/her side of the road.

Missed by that much........

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

I'm not prepared to speculate on what caused the tragedy, but I'd venture the opinion that the driver wasn't wearing a seatbelt.

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I would not venture down that road [bighmmm]

Had a friend of the family very safety conscious killed last year while driving In a 50 k zone not their fault but a head on with a drowsy driver in a GU .

Our family friend was wearing a seat belt and was still ejected out of the car and killed .

So it is possible that seat belts do not serve as 100% restraint in certain crash circumstances .

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Originally Posted by rangieman

I would not venture down that road [bighmmm]

Had a friend of the family very safety conscious killed last year while driving In a 50 k zone not their fault but a head on with a drowsy driver in a GU .

Our family friend was wearing a seat belt and was still ejected out of the car and killed .

So it is possible that seat belts do not serve as 100% restraint in certain crash circumstances .

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Seatbelts are not 100% infallible But they are very VERY good at keeping people alive.
I was involved in a high speed head on a few years ago where there was 5 people in our Ford Transit 4 of which were wearing their seatbelts.
I was badly injured but I survived and everyone else that was wearing their seatbelts walked away from the accident uninjured, The one person that wasn't wearing their seatbelt died at the scene unfortunately.

Then there is the case of a group inspecting a rural property a year or so ago - being off the road, the only one wearing a seat belt was the four year old in a child seat. The four wheel drive rolled (apparently at low speed), and the child was the only survivor of the four on board.