If you’re flying and the pilot has put on the Buckle Seatbelts sign, don’t think of it as a suggestion. It’s serious. How serious? A woman from Texas ignored the sign, which the pilot activitated because of turbulence. She went to the bathroom and when the air turbulance rocked the plane, she was thrown up to the ceiling and back down again, breaking her neck.
According to this ABC article, Texas Woman Breaks Neck, Back In Airplane Turbulence, the woman sustained a broken neck that was similar to Christopher Reeves – a so-called hangman’s fracture.
Two other passengers on the flight suffered …read more

I went on a field trip with my daughter’s 4th grade class today – and that meant I got to ride on a school buses for the first time in 23 years (oh my I am getting OLD). Can someone tell me why we are required to wear seatbelts in our private vehicles, you wear them when you ride on a coach bus, they are required on airplanes, and they have them on trains, but on a crowded bus of relatively unsupervised school children, there are no such safety devices?
We didn’t have far to go, but the road was …read more