Gov. Corzine was not wearing a seat belt :(

[Laura's Babies]

No matter what car I drive or WHO you are, if the seat belts are not on, I will not even start the car until it is. If WE don't set the example, how can we ask the kids and grandkids to do it?

[Edwina's Secretary]

It was said that if Princess Diana had been wearing a seat belt the outcome would have been very different. In fact, the only one wearing a seat belt was the lone survivor....

[Zippy]

I alwas wear a seat belt.I feel safer with wearing one.

[Ginger's Mom]

Yes, I always wear a seat belt and like Laura will not start the car unless my passengers are belted in too.

Gov. Corzine had been at a Governer's convention of some sort in Atlantic City and was headed to the Governer's mansion for the Imus/Rutgers girl's basketball team meeting. The funny thing is I was walking Ginger at about 6:30 yesterday afternoon when a NeuStar (emergency medical) helicopter went overhead and I immediately assumed they were responding to a motor vehicle accident. Then I saw they were being escorted by a State Police helicopter and I wondered who was hurt. The Governor was the only one who was seriously injured, and probably the only one not wearing a seatbelt. He should be made to pay for the cost incurred for the airlift and emergency treatment himself (not us taxpayers).

[wolf_Q]

YES. I will not ride in a car without one.

[luvofallhorses]

YES. I will not ride in a car without one.

same here.

[Sirrahsim]

It is just plain foolish to ride in a vehicle or let anyone ride in a vehicle with you without a seatbelt.

[Karen]

I always buckle up now, it's state law. I usually did anyway, but the one time I was in a car accident and hadn't buckled in, it probably saved me. We were in my sister's 1969 Ford Falcon - had-me-down car from my grandfather, then big brother. So it was an old car, 15 years old, and built like a tank. We were on the curves of the infamous Southeast Expressway in Boston, and a ladder had fallen off a truck into the lane we were traveling in. A light rain had just begun to fall, so when my sister braked to avoid the ladder, we ended up skidding straight across 4 or 5 lanes of traffic, and hit the guardrail head-on, leaving us perpendicular to oncoming traffic. A much newer, smaller car couldn't stop in time and hit us pretty hard, right in the passenger side door. Had I been wearing my seatbelt, I would have been strapped TO that door, but as there were three of us in the front seat, I ended up just bouncing into the lap of the girl in the middle. The worst injury was my sister ended up with a gash on her knee from where it hit the CB radio mount under the dash.

And much to, I think, the policemen's bemusement, my life-size Raggedy Ann doll and pumpkin rode in the cruiser with us, as they got us off the highway. Neither of them were injured either.

[Taz_Zoee]

I feel weird riding/driving in a car without a seat belt. It is totally habit to put it on.

[Pam]

Gov. Corzine had been at a Governer's convention of some sort in Atlantic City and was headed to the Governer's mansion for the Imus/Rutgers girl's basketball team meeting.

Thanks for clearing that up Joyce! I was having a hard time understanding why he was going Northbound on the Parkway. For some reason I thought the meeting with the girls was in Atlantic City. That's what happens when you only listen to a snippet of news here and a snippet there.

[Flatcoatluver]

I always wear a seatbelt. I feel extremly akward if I am not wearing it.

[catnapper]

I don't even realize I put the seat belt on anymore. Its just a natural thing for me to do. I feel very awkward without one on.... as if I'm going to start levitating out of my seat or something!

[lizbud]

I feel very awkward without one on.... as if I'm going to start levitating out of my seat or something!

Same here. I know what you mean. It really is a good habit to have.

[lute]

I ALWAYS wear my seatbelt! It's a habbit putting it on.