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On Thu, 10 May 2001, Sandy Tyra wrote: > Or the combination. Airbags are meant to be used *with* seatbelts, > not alone. I am considerably taller than Lee, but the shoulder belt > goes across my neck too, if I don't fiddle with the seat position (no > amount of fidlling would solve the problem for Lee) and I tend to push > the shoulder strap under my arm, figuring it is better to risk a > mastectomy than a decapitation in an accident. the air bag would, > hopefully, fill in the gap so that I would lose nothing. Did a drive down to NYC this past weekend with a friend. I'm 5'3", she's 5' even, we're both somewhat buxom. If I take my bra off to drive, the seat belt will stay nicely between my breasts. If I leave it on, the seat belt tends to slide up and hit me in the neck. (See, bras are designed to make two separate entities into one shelf united by elasticized fabric... anyway...) I've never been able to make the seat belt stay down below both breasts. Regarding airbags, I was in a front-end collision in late November, and I was wearing both the motorized shoulder belt and the separate lap belt. The major injury was the fact that my left breast turned almost entirely purple (bruising) and stayed that way for a remarkably long time, though the coverage of the bruise did diminish over time. However, considering that I *was* thrown forward and had minor neck pain (which went away reasonably quickly), I'm not convinced that I would have been less injured without the airbag. In fact, I'm fairly certain that I would have had serious neck injury. --Rachel -- R. S. Silverman http://www.gingicat.org "It isn't my fault that I'm supposed to be living in a musical and got stuck in a dramatic production." --Robert Cooke, on rec.music.filk