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riding in back of pickup trucks
I've been surprised how often people ride in the back of pickup trucks
in central FL. No seatbelt, nothing. Does FL have any laws on the matter? |
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"Todd" > wrote in message > I've been surprised how often people ride in the back of pickup trucks > in central FL. No seatbelt, nothing. Amazing! I should think they would just drop dead of inappropriateness. When I was a kid we always rode around that way - in summer. And of course, at least 50,000 - 60,000 of us per day were dismembered and splattered all over the landscape. Just sitting in the back with the engine running killed at least several hundred! |
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Todd wrote:
> I've been surprised how often people ride in the back of pickup trucks > in central FL. No seatbelt, nothing. Does FL have any laws on the > matter? Oh by all means, let's have the government step in an "protect" us from ourselves. After all, I was killed 20 years ago when I rode in the back of a pickup no more than one occasion. |
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> barking pumpkin said in rec.autos.driving:
> Todd wrote: > > I've been surprised how often people ride in the back of pickup trucks > > in central FL. No seatbelt, nothing. Does FL have any laws on the > > matter? > > Oh by all means, let's have the government step in an "protect" us from > ourselves. > > After all, I was killed 20 years ago when I rode in the back of a pickup > no more than one occasion. Absolutely. I was killed about the same time for *heaven forbid* riding in a car with out wearing a seatbelt! -- C orrupt I mbeciles A nonymous |
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"Todd" > wrote in message ... > I've been surprised how often people ride in the back of pickup trucks > in central FL. No seatbelt, nothing. Does FL have any laws on the > matter? I don't know about Florida, but now NC has a law prohibiting minors from riding in the back of pick-ups. I don't have the statistics available, but I don't recall many deaths or even injuries associated with riding in the back of pick-ups. It strikes me as a nanny law. Around here this is the sort of law that Damn Yankees (the ones that come and won't leave) like to promulgate. I grew up on a farm, and I probably spent as much time in the back of pick-ups as in the cab. And my Father always removed the tailgate as soon as he got a new truck, so I never even had to deal with those. Ed |
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> Absolutely. I was killed about the same time for *heaven forbid* riding > in a car with out wearing a seatbelt! > Automobiles didn't always have seatbelts. It's a wonder that homo sapiens didn't become extinct before seatbelts were mandated. -Dave |
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Mike T. wrote: > > > > Absolutely. I was killed about the same time for *heaven forbid* riding > > in a car with out wearing a seatbelt! > > > > Automobiles didn't always have seatbelts. It's a wonder that homo sapiens > didn't become extinct before seatbelts were mandated. -Dave In my day we'd ride about a mile in the back of a pickup - on top of about 100 hay bales, which made our ride higher than the cab. Of course, our average speed was 10. |
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C. E. White wrote: > I don't know about Florida, but now NC has a law prohibiting minors from > riding in the back of pick-ups. I don't have the statistics available, but I > don't recall many deaths or even injuries associated with riding in the back > of pick-ups. It strikes me as a nanny law. Around here this is the sort of > law that Damn Yankees (the ones that come and won't leave) like to > promulgate. And if only the posters in this thread had lived to see it, as opposed to dying years ago from riding in pickup truck beds. Anyway, I'm sure any pickup bed riding bans will be touted in the same way as seatbelt laws were - it's not that you'll fall out during normal driving, but that you would be flung out of the pickup bed (read 1980s: front seat of car) during a collision (or else strike the cab). |
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Todd > wrote: > I've been surprised how often people ride in the back of pickup trucks > in central FL. No seatbelt, nothing. Does FL have any laws on the > matter? Feel free to go to the web site for Florida's DMV to look up the info. |
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"Sir Ray" > wrote in message ups.com... > > C. E. White wrote: > > I don't know about Florida, but now NC has a law prohibiting minors from > > riding in the back of pick-ups. I don't have the statistics available, but I > > don't recall many deaths or even injuries associated with riding in the back > > of pick-ups. It strikes me as a nanny law. Around here this is the sort of > > law that Damn Yankees (the ones that come and won't leave) like to > > promulgate. > > And if only the posters in this thread had lived to see it, as opposed > to dying years ago from riding in pickup truck beds. > Anyway, I'm sure any pickup bed riding bans will be touted in the same > way as seatbelt laws were - it's not that you'll fall out during normal > driving, but that you would be flung out of the pickup bed (read 1980s: > front seat of car) during a collision (or else strike the cab). Absolutely true. But at least when I was young, it seemed an insignificant risk. About the only bad thing that happened when I was in the back of the pick-up was I got a painful (but not nearly fatal) cut on my hands becasue I stuck them out while riding next to field corn. Those damn corn leaves are tough. On the range of dangerous thing I did while I was a kid, riding in the back of a pick-up was about a 4 (1 being completely safe, 10 being fatal). Riding a bike on a country road was a lot more dangerous than riding in the back of my dad's truck. Heck, weeding peanut on a hot July day was a whole lot more dangerous (not to mention unpleasant) than riding in the back of a truck. Playing in the hay loft was a lot more dangerous too. Ed Ed |
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