Sunday, February 4, 2007

Voice Recorders

From :  T. L. Rippy
Sent :  Sunday, February 4, 2007 8:14 PM
To :  blueghostred@msn.com
Subject :  voice recorders
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The National Transportation Safety Board recently divulged they had

"covertly" funded a project with the U.S. automakers for the past 5 years,

whereby the automakers were installing black-box voice recorders in 4-wheel

drive pickup trucks and SUV's in an effort to determine in fatal accidents,

the circumstances in the last 15 seconds befor! e the c rash.

They were surprised to find in 38 of the 50 states the recorded last words

of drivers in 61.2 percent of fatal crashes were, "Oh Sh** !"

Only the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Oklahoma,

Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and

Texas were different, where 89.3 percent of the final words were: "Hold my

beer, I'm gonna try somethin."