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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Man flung from car in horrifying crash where he slams into metal door in North Dakota
2023-08-13
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Mexican, eleven year old car, no seatbelts, missed the curve... the only things missing are legally drunk and an illegal transporting more illegals, but no doubt both those facts will be revealed later..
  • Salvador Mendiola, 32, from Mexico, was driving a 2002 Mercury Mountaineer south on 87th Avenue Northwest in New Town on August 5 at around 11.20pm

  • Another passenger was seriously injured after he was also ejected from the vehicle and a third person was left with minor injuries following the collision

  • Mendiola failed to negotiate a curve and ran off the road which caused the SUV to roll before coming to rest at the bottom of a ditch
Driving while Mexican
21 yr old car = certainly had seat belts
Had seatbelts, yes. Used seatbelts, no.
Posted by:Skidmark

#7  I miss the days where the press always accentuated the SUV aspect of any crash. Trump derangement overwhelmed things and pushed out so many other derangements. Only Trump, guns, white supremacy and patriarchy are left. I guess there are also climate deniers, anti vaxers and Trad Catholics. The marketplace has moved off of SUV villainy, though. They got the TAB cola treatment.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-08-13 18:50  

#6  Vato, meet that aspect of physics called inertia!
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-08-13 17:30  

#5  I know several people (all severely overweight) who refuse to wear seat belts. They are idiots.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-08-13 10:22  

#4  The saying goes: Any idiot-proof system can be overcome by an ingenious idiot.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-08-13 10:20  

#3  @M. Murcek, they didn't become widespread because they had a high failure rate in crashes and there were several fatalities and law suits.

Posted by: EMS Artifact    2023-08-13 09:03  

#2  Remember cars that had the seat belt attached to the door. Getting in the car, you went behind the seat belt automatically. I don't remember exactly why they didn't become more widespread.

I sense a lawsuit against the car makers for not making the seatbelt put itself on you. Because illegals have "standing."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-08-13 07:28  

#1  If wearing a seat belt will save just one illegal alien, it will be worth it.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-08-13 00:18  

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