Taking online traffic school and found these disturbing stories:

Everything in your car today is collapsible. Vehicles are designed to collapse from the force of impact. Even with improved designs and new technology you still need to wear a safety belt. Have you ever seen those crash dummy films? They show the dummies crashing into a wall at just 15 mph. You wouldn't think this could happen, but the dummy hit the mirror and the impact took off half the side of the dummy's head.

This is a story from a dentist who had a patient get hit from behind at 8 mph while not wearing their safety belt. The person didn't see it coming. Their head snapped back and then forward hitting the steering wheel, knocking almost all of their teeth out of their mouth. The other driver didn't have insurance. It took three surgeries to get the rest of their teeth out. A total of $10,000 in surgeries with no insurance to pay for it.

There's a famous case about a guy in Wisconsin who was coming around a curve and didn't see the ice on the road. There was hidden ice, black ice. He skidded on the ice and hit a little tree on the side of the road going 30 mph. He had his safety belt on, even a shoulder harness. The man was killed by a box of Kleenex from the back-dashboard of his vehicle. The point of the box severed his spine. If you took a box of Kleenex, and shot it out of a cannon into the back of somebody's head, it would kill them.

There was another case where a box of Sucrets killed a woman. The little cough medicine in the metal box: she was killed by that box hitting her in the head from the back-dashboard.

Anything you have on your back-dashboard, get rid of it! Those cans of soda, eyeglasses, bowling ***** on your back-dash, get rid of it! Can you imagine getting killed by one of those bobbing head dogs that they sell in the store? Everybody at your funeral will be bobbin' their heads, and saying "That's how he died!"

Police say that in crashes of 60 mph, an ink pen from the back-dashboard will go through the front windshield. If a pen can go through the front windshield, it will go through your head.

 

false.

myth busters busted it.

 

+1
false.

myth busters busted it.

Why are you taking "On line traffic school"?

 

"Mythbusters"? So now you're believing things you hear on television???
LOL!
Taking traffic school due to a doughnut eater on PCH with laser who was hiding just after the speed limit changed from 50-40MPH! And I was just cruising as normal, following another car who was going the same speed and probably didn't get a ticket!
Oh, and the new online traffic school sucks big time! You have to keep entering one of TEN passwords as these random windows pop up and if you don't it logs you out. You can't just go to the quiz at the end of each chapter and take it, you have to wait 1/2 an hour!

 

i seriously hope you're joking.................





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Yea....That's definately false... I saw that Mythbusters also,, and they proved there is no way that the box of kleenex can gain enough momentum to create a force deadly enough to kill you because it is so lightweight. Now they did prove a bowling ball and other heavy objects left on the back window shelf can injur/kill you.

 

i saw a video online where they were testing crashes with stuff in the seat and they decapitated the udmmy at 20mph with a briefcase that broke through the trunk. pretty nuts

 

Yeah, those videos are sensationalized to give you the results that online traffic school wants you to believe.

Unfortunately, even an instant acceleration from 80 to 0 mph in half a second couldn't generate enough force for a box of Kleenex to kill you. Yes a bowling ball could likely kill you...but a pen through glass at 60 mph? Car glass is laminated and designed to break into a million little pieces under the right impact. Your windshield likely takes a few dozen hits from rocks and other debris going at least 75 mph right into your windsheild.

Getting hit It might hurt, but the rest of the stuff in the car is much more dangerous.

Also, the dentist story is likely really really old. That's what "uninsured motorist" insurance is for on your policy. Nowadays it comes with standard liability insurance. You can't get rid of it, but you can minimize what they cover and what you pay. If it happened in today's world, the uninsured motorist policy would cover this accident.

I'm still of the belief that this was one of those metal decorative boxes that people put over their boxes to hide the large "Kleenex" on the side. That travelling at 80 and the point hitting you in the back of the neck would likely pierce the skin and may have cause what the video describes.

But hey, believe what the "man" tells you. They've <sarcasm> NEVER </sarcasm> been wrong before.

 

Actually the windshield is designed to stay intact when it is impacted. It is your side and rear windows that are designed to shatter into hundreds of little rounded edge pieces. Sounds like a lot of urban legends are being spread at the driving school. I have worked some freak fatalities but at much higher speeds than what you have been told. Under 45mph most of the fatalities I worked were due to no seatbelt, (ejections and rollovers). At about 45 we saw some fatalities due to T-bone collisions and head on collisions. With the T-bone, the victem was usually at the impact point and suffered from blunt trauma. In head ons, we had to be able to spot victems of massive organ displacement where they suffered arterial damage and were bleeding to death. At higher speeds people would become quite creative in their collisions.

I've always contended that, if the states made it a requirement that each person applying for their driver's licence, be required to spend a weekend with a rescue unit, we would have far less traffic fatalities.