Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Who was not wearing their seat belt then?
Coach drivers here in the UK have great difficulty getting their passengers to comply with the legislation and wear a seat belt whilst seated. The passengers simply ignore the spoken safety announcement you have just made over the microphone, ignore the written instruction on their tickets and the pictograms displayed on the windows.
This ignorance by the traveling public is not just limited to coaches though. At least 26 people were injured when a Continental Airlines jet hit "extreme turbulence" and made an emergency landing in Miami, officials said. The Boeing 767 had been travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Houston when it encountered trouble north of the Dominican Republic at about 0830 GMT. Passengers reported a sudden drop that threw some people against the roof. Four people were seriously injured, while the other 22 suffered bumps and bruises, a fire service spokesman said. There had been a total of 168 passengers and 11 crew on board, officials said.
...So then, 153 people had some common sense about them and wore a seat belt. What did the other silly 26 people think they were doing? It does not matter whether you are traveling down a motorway at 62mph or flying through the air at 38,000 ft, without a seat belt you can be thrown about like a rag doll. Seat belts are fitted for a reason, as these ignorant 26 people now know from their own experience.
Coach drivers here in the UK have great difficulty getting their passengers to comply with the legislation and wear a seat belt whilst seated. The passengers simply ignore the spoken safety announcement you have just made over the microphone, ignore the written instruction on their tickets and the pictograms displayed on the windows.
This ignorance by the traveling public is not just limited to coaches though. At least 26 people were injured when a Continental Airlines jet hit "extreme turbulence" and made an emergency landing in Miami, officials said. The Boeing 767 had been travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Houston when it encountered trouble north of the Dominican Republic at about 0830 GMT. Passengers reported a sudden drop that threw some people against the roof. Four people were seriously injured, while the other 22 suffered bumps and bruises, a fire service spokesman said. There had been a total of 168 passengers and 11 crew on board, officials said.
...So then, 153 people had some common sense about them and wore a seat belt. What did the other silly 26 people think they were doing? It does not matter whether you are traveling down a motorway at 62mph or flying through the air at 38,000 ft, without a seat belt you can be thrown about like a rag doll. Seat belts are fitted for a reason, as these ignorant 26 people now know from their own experience.
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Just let them get on with it, Stephen. What do your passengers expect for their lousy Funfare? To live forever?
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