Cobra crash, no seatbelts

[jts359]

Any car when you slide behind the wheel will kill , Some comments here are just strange ! Ed

[1795]

Originally Posted by jts359

Any car when you slide behind the wheel will kill , Some comments here are just strange ! Ed

The prior comments were to instruct drivers on the difference between modern cars and cobras. Any car if mishandled could kill you, however modern cars have safety features such as traction control, antilock brakes, accident avoidance, etc., that will attempt to manage a driver's foolish mistakes. Cobras have none of those and also tend to have a lower weight to HP ratio than most modern cars as well. Then can turn deadly in a heart beat, not just for the driver, but the passenger and anyone else in the near vicinity.

[Mark IV]

"If you've drank from the bottle, don't use the throttle...."

[CobraResurrect]

A Sheriff Department employee doesn't necessarily need to be a cop.
I was involved in a crash driving a Mazda B2000 pickup in the 80's and was not wearing a seatbelt. Big mistake.
I was also involved in a motorcycle accident (not my fault) that broke my leg. Required 7 operations. Another big mistake to own and ride one.
Motorcycles are way more dangerous.
The end results of the above accident was from not wearing seatbelts.

[raybones]

I wear my lap belt every time in my Cobra, so does any passenger. To be 100% honest though I have never used the shoulder restraints.

[tortuga]

Originally Posted by raybones

I wear my lap belt every time in my Cobra, so does any passenger. To be 100% honest though I have never used the shoulder restraints.

For anything that involves leaving the driveway. Theres a reason ALL modern cars have shoulder belts…i dont want to peel my wifes beautiful face out of the dasboard when we get rear ended…

[86Sebring]

Originally Posted by tortuga

For anything that involves leaving the driveway. Theres a reason ALL modern cars have shoulder belts…i dont want to peel my wifes beautiful face out of the dasboard when we get rear ended…

Totally agree, seatbelts at all times.
seems to me, unless you're wearing a HANS device, if you get rear ended, your head will go backwards, not forwards...

[1795]

Originally Posted by 86Sebring

Totally agree, seatbelts at all times.
seems to me, unless you're wearing a HANS device, if you get rear ended, your head will go backwards, not forwards...

Unless you are wearing a HANS device attached to a helmet, your head goes both directions. When your head goes backwards your brain bounces off the front of your skull as it is sitting in fluid and then it bounces towards the back of your skull and makes contact. Of course as the brain is flying back and forth there are a lot of neurons that have the axions torn or damaged as they are not exactly rubber bands. Then there is that little whiplash thing happening with your neck and spinal column.

[USC_COWBOY]

Originally Posted by raybones

I wear my lap belt every time in my Cobra, so does any passenger. To be 100% honest though I have never used the shoulder restraints.

Start using the shoulder restraints immediately. My father, Paul Cunningham, was a Cobra privateer, campaigning against the factory team cars, on that fateful day in November, 1963 he was leading the last race of the day at Willow Springs Raceway near Tehachapi California. He was temporarily blinded by the setting sun in the last corner, put two left wheels off the paved surface onto the loose earth, flipped and tumbled for the length of a football field, lap belts only as that was all that was required. Died instantly from blunt force trauma to his head as he impacted the steering wheel/column. Shoulder restraints were immediately required as safety equipment. You can save yourself, wear them religiously, fifty years later I miss my dad. RIP

[twobjshelbys]

Was this a rollover? Hard to tell from the pic. If so, then seatbelts might have been a detriment.

[Bruce.huling]

50 plus years riding motorcycles on the streets. It’s all about your mindset and self regulatory behavior. Same for my cobra. That said, distracted drivers are the killer.

[HealeyRick]

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/l-a...n-temple-city/

[Alfa02]

Sounds like everything that could happen, happened. A friends Mother always said anything that happens after midnight, is usually not good. Case in point.

[incoming]

I'm with Raybones. My drivers side has Five-way for sanctioned racing. My passenger side has a Four way.

I have my harness set up for me because I'm the sole driver.

After I have a rider, I run all the straps out on the passenger side.

I start from all the straps full length and strap them in properly very methodically.

[incoming]

I make it an experience.

[incoming]

Or at least try to.

[DanEC]

I have a street car so no roll bar. I wear my harness as I don’t like the looks of those visors brackets on the windshield header, or the header not that far away for that matter. The slightly dished steering wheel, solid steering column isn’t something I want to meet with violently either. But I do wear them loose enough that I can lean over to my right side if the option (and presence of mind) presents itself due to a side impact/rollover. But in reality, if you hit anything in one of these at any speed it’s probably going to be bad and having any time to react is anything but certain.

[MaSnaka]

No matter the cause, we lost a young enthusiast. Sad day for his friends and family.
"some times bad things happen"

John

[incoming]

@tortuga, The only good habit I got from the military was wearing a seat belt in a car and a bucket on a bike.

[t walgamuth]

Til the car stops maybe.