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Tom,
Your message is a very good one. It's unfortunate that it takes a tragedy to sometimes make people understand how important that little belt is.
Kind thoughts for a speedy recovery for your daughter Wendy. :)

Steve

: Earlier today, my daughter Wendy never saw what was coming and similarly never knew what hit her. She felt the unexpected sideways shock and heard the deafening crunch of steel meeting fiberglass as a lady in a midsize car failed to negotiate a stop sign and slammed broadside into her Camaro Z28. Wendy�s airbag deployed and her car was sent careening down the side of the road � sliding, spinning, twisting, and tumbling, finally coming to rest upside down in a steep ditch. She lay buckled in her seat belt upside down amongst the smashed t-top, windshield, broken door with glass debris around her. She was dazed and disoriented; fearing her car may burst in flames any second! She reacted swiftly as she unbuckled her seat belt, fell down and miraculously squeezed through rather small opening of the smashed door window.

: Wendy scrambled up the side of the ditch to the road. She was bleeding, covered with dirt and lacerations to her body, with a huge knot on her head when she heard a child crying. She walked to the car that struck her and peered in. In the back seat was a young child approximately two years old strapped in his safety seat. She reached in through the broken back window, unbuckled him and carefully plucked him from the car. A man ran up who she thought was the driver of the car. She asked him if he was okay, then found out he was an eye-witness who saw the sequence of events as they unfolded. She asked him, �Where is the driver of the car?� He pointed to the opposite ditch. Unfortunately, from the force of the impact, the mother who neglected to wear her seatbelt was thrown through the passenger�s door out of the car and lay lifeless in the ditch. The Fire Department was right around the corner and arrived �Johnny-on-the-spot�, but alas ... was too late.

: The mother and young child were transported to the hospital via an ambulance. Wendy was X-rayed and stitched up at the ER room. The young child miraculously escaped virtually unscathed. The young mother who failed to secure her own self with a seat belt did not escape as lucky as Wendy and her young son. She will be watching from above. God rest her soul.

: Please, please, please ... "Wear your Seatbelt".

: Other matters seem so trivial and meaningless when tragedy strikes. It makes you aware of what is really important.

: God Bless All,
: Tom F.

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