Rule #1 Always Wear a Seatbelt

I have three rules of life that have stood me in good stead.

1. Always wear a seatbelt.
2. Put the milk back in the refrigerator.
3. Be kind.

I became convinced of the first as a student in law school when a guest lecturer, a medical examiner, showed us photographs of people killed because of the forward motion of a body when a car hits theirs, even if it was going only 5 miles an hour, propelled them through a window or impaled them on a steering column.  Most car accidents take place within a few miles of home when people 'just running to the store to get a few things' don't think they need a seatbelt.  Then and there I vowed to always wear a seatbelt even if I was just going the block. 

To be killed because of not wearing a seatbelt seems to me to be an especially stupid way to die.

So when N.J. Governor Corzine, is gravely injured because  he was "thrown within the vehicle during the impact" because didn't  buckle-up in his car GOING 91 MILES AN HOUR IN A 65 MPH ZONE, I just have to think he's stupid or arrogant and thinking the rules don't apply to him. Everyone else in the car was buckled up.

Now I'm sorry he's so seriously injured, I don't wish any ill to happen to him, but what stupid behavior from a public official, and especially hypocritical since he proposed a mandatory seat belt law while a U.S. senator.