Re: National Transportation Safety Board...
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:17 pm
The National Transportation Safety Board recently divulged they had
"covertly" funded a project with the U.S. Automakers for the past 5
years, whereby the automakers were installing black-box voice
recorders in 4-wheel drive pickup trucks and SUV's in an effort to
determine, in fatal accidents, the circumstances in the last 15
seconds before the crash.
They were surprised to find in 38 of the 50 states the recorded last
words of drivers in 61.2 percent of fatal crashes were, "Oh Sh_t !"
Only the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia,
Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia,
Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas were different, where 89.3 percent
of the final words were:
"Hold my beer, I'm gonna try somethin."
"covertly" funded a project with the U.S. Automakers for the past 5
years, whereby the automakers were installing black-box voice
recorders in 4-wheel drive pickup trucks and SUV's in an effort to
determine, in fatal accidents, the circumstances in the last 15
seconds before the crash.
They were surprised to find in 38 of the 50 states the recorded last
words of drivers in 61.2 percent of fatal crashes were, "Oh Sh_t !"
Only the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia,
Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia,
Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas were different, where 89.3 percent
of the final words were:
"Hold my beer, I'm gonna try somethin."