Woman Distracted by Texting Drives Her Car Into a Lake

[Uncle Joe]

124. How big is the issue? 384 drownings is more than two Oklahoma City Bombings every year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing

The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. It would remain the most destructive act of terrorism in the United States until the September 11 attacks of 2001, six years later. The bombing claimed 168 lives[1] and injured more than 680 people.[2] The blast destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a 16-block radius, destroyed or burned 86 cars, and shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings,[3][4] causing at least an estimated $652 million worth of damage.[5] Extensive rescue efforts were undertaken by local, state, federal, and worldwide agencies in the wake of the bombing, and substantial donations were received from across the country. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) activated eleven of its Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces, consisting of 665 rescue workers who assisted in rescue and recovery operations.[6][7]

Now I'm not suggesting every drowning victim would be saved by having a quicker and safer escape from a sinking automobile but most definitely some of them would.

If you don't have a breakdown of precise statistics attributing the primary cause of the drownings it's hard to quantify that.

We do have and should have laws requiring seat belt use and not driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs but they're all mitigating factors.

How many of those drownings occurred because the passengers couldn't exit their vehicles fast enough?

Even if you were driving under the influence or wearing your seat-belts was it a non, minor or major factor, in not be able to exit the vehicle?

As I stated above we should have laws for the public in safely operating vehicles, but the same holds true for the automobile manufacturers in producing as safe a car as possible and as I posted up thread, this wouldn't be rocket science for them.

You may look at the numbers as a minuscule amount, just a %, but if it was you or your family drowning or drowned because you or they couldn't exit the vehicle fast enough you might feel differently.