01-03-2007, 12:17 PM
thats just terrible,
on two accounts. one driving on ice that is not stable, and the other is seat belts on a snowmobil.
you may as well put seat belts on a motor cycle for all the good it will do ya,
the biggest safty feature of the snomobil is the fact that you can dislodge your self from it at any time. the only thing seat belts are good for are head on colisions, even then there is no protection from schrapmetal and debre flying in to you... your best hope is to jump off to save your self bodily injury from impact..
if ya think about it, snowmobilers are rapped in padding and a helmet, snow is relitivly soft, you are low to the ground so there is less impact from jumping off.
I mean no disrespect to the family. but it is a fools game for one person on a sled to race across the lake on thin ice as many do every year, even on my lake they do it, more enough they jump large bodys of open water.
where the ice might have held the dad flying at tremendous speeds, the added weight and the drag of the trailor car is enough to bog it down to the point that it was no longer hydroplaining.
what of the dad, did he servive?
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on two accounts. one driving on ice that is not stable, and the other is seat belts on a snowmobil.
you may as well put seat belts on a motor cycle for all the good it will do ya,
the biggest safty feature of the snomobil is the fact that you can dislodge your self from it at any time. the only thing seat belts are good for are head on colisions, even then there is no protection from schrapmetal and debre flying in to you... your best hope is to jump off to save your self bodily injury from impact..
if ya think about it, snowmobilers are rapped in padding and a helmet, snow is relitivly soft, you are low to the ground so there is less impact from jumping off.
I mean no disrespect to the family. but it is a fools game for one person on a sled to race across the lake on thin ice as many do every year, even on my lake they do it, more enough they jump large bodys of open water.
where the ice might have held the dad flying at tremendous speeds, the added weight and the drag of the trailor car is enough to bog it down to the point that it was no longer hydroplaining.
what of the dad, did he servive?
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