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Hi All. I posted this over on Pelican, thought it might be relevant here too.
I know there have been many discussions on the safety putting a roll bar/cage in a street driven car. I am not a racer, so it really didn't pertain to me at all. However, yesterday I saw first hand the injuries that can occur. 16 year old girl driving her dads Miata with him in the passenger seat. There is speculation that she was driving on her permit, practicing for her drivers license. She was driving at a slow speed, simply making a right hand turn on to a side street. She clipped the curb - something we all have done. Curb was tall enough that it shook the car pretty good (again, speculation, but knowing the corner I would guess a wheel would have been bent and the car knocked out of alignment ). Both are in the hospital with concussions, one of them needed several stiches from injuries caused by their heads impacting the roll bar. I don't know if the dad autocrossed the car or what, or if the bar was just for looks. I do know the car had stock seat belts. Scary stuff. |
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Proper padding and non-retractable seat belts are a must for a street car with a cage.
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Proper padding and non-retractable seat belts are a must for a street car with a cage. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif) I suppose you shouldn't be using a helmet as rollbar protection? It doesn't make much sense to me that you would use one safety device to protect yourself from another safety device. |
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Resident German ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 42,257 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California ![]() |
Proper padding and non-retractable seat belts are a must for a street car with a cage. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif) I suppose you shouldn't be using a helmet as rollbar protection? It doesn't make much sense to me that you would use one safety device to protect yourself from another safety device. Wut? With proper padding, a rollbar is not more dangerous than any other hard object in a car made of, wait for it, mostly metal! Take any car with a fixed roof, remove the padding/plastic/cover from the frame above the door and what do you see? Metal ... The rollbar in my 914 is no closer to my head than the door frame in my 2002 Jetta. Or 2012 Tiguan. Plenty of places to hit with my head in those cars. And i don't see anyone here driving around with a helmet in their daily driver. Well, except Larmo maybe ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) |
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