In article , Morgans wrote:

"John Clear" wrote

This is very true. I was in a car accident, and even though I was
properly belted, my chin hit the steering wheel as the belt stretched.
Fortunately my chin was just bruised, but I also sprained my ribs in
the accident, which was no fun.

As the nylon stretched, it got hot enough to melt the plastic
lettering on the college sweatshirt I was wearing at the time.

Wow! Just think how much harder the hit to your ribs would have been, if
the belt had not given up its energy over several inches by stretching, and
had held without the stretch, like a chain.

Yeah, the belts did their job. I'll take sprained ribs over the
alternative any day. I just wish it was a five point harness,
since I think some of the injury to my ribs was caused by the
asymmetric force of the diagonal shoulder belt. My ribs popped above
my sternum on one side, and below on the other. The crash was a
head on impact, so the only side loads were caused by the diagonal
belt.

John
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