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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] [quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even if you got out of the car, you are in the middle of a huge river! How are you swimming to safety? What about the infant in the car seat?[/quote]

I used to drive my kids back and forth from VA to MD several times a week and would keep their life jackets in the car because I am a little paranoid. [b]I'm also a bridge engineer[/b] and have an unnatural fear of such an incident. We don't go as frequently anymore, but I'm gonna put them back in the car. [/quote]

:shock: that was an unexpected plot twist

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You'd think as an engineer you would have an understanding of the rarity of this kind of thing happening. I mean, does someone have the statistics on how many people are killed annually by bridge collapses? I'm guessing a million other things rank much higher.[/quote]

I believe these are government employees that have never had to make a cost-benefit or risk analysis. Remember, if it saves just one person... [/quote]

What are the chances of a life jacket saving anyone in the event of your car falling off a bridge into water? You have a few seconds, at most, to unbuckle car seats/seat belts, open car doors and windows, put on life jacket for yourself and your kids, all while violently falling through the air/being bumped around the inside of the vehicle, potentially w debris and/or other vehicles hitting you and becoming submerged in water. I’m just trying to understand how you would even be able to/have time to get a life jacket on in this scenario.[/quote]

The argument is "but what if it did help, even just a little bit" and then we wind up with a vocal minority creating useless safety measures, like mandatory lifejackets in cars. They work on airplanes after all. [/quote]

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