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January 27, 2005
Welcome to the Surveillance Society
For a mere $55 annually, parents can keep tabs on their teen drivers by placing the above bumper sticker on the back of their vehicle. If someone observes the child driving erratically, they call the number and a report is taken -- then sent to the parents.
Tell-My-Mom's website tells a compelling enough story to get people to sign on. There's the statistics that 10,000 teens every year in automobile crashes, and that they account for nearly 20% of all reported crashes. And then there's the factoid that truck companies with similar programs report a 20% decrease in accidents and ticketing.
But when you flick around the site you come to a very creepy entry.
Titled, "7/10 of a Second to Die," it's a graphic description of how your loved ones perish. Here are some highlights:
"At 3/10 of a second your son/daughter is sprung upright from their seat, their knees break from being jammed under the dashboard...
"At 5/10 of a second your kid's fear-frozen hands bend the steering column into an almost vertical position as they are impaled on the steering wheel shaft. Jagged steel punctures their lungs and arteries...
"At 6/10 of a second the impact rips the shoes you bought them off their feet...
At 7/10 of a second, the entire body of the car is twisted ...the front seat rams forward pinning your kid against what used to be the steering wheel shaft and dashboard. Blood pours from their mouth...Your kids face is torn into horrible lacerations from smashing through the windshield and almost every bone in their young body is broken. Shock has frozen your kids heart . . . but they don't mind . . . because they are already dead."
Posted by Frank at January 27, 2005 5:31 AM | Filed under Auto News