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 before the crash.
They were surprised to find in 37 of the 50 states the recorded last
words of drivers in 61.2 percent of fatal crashes were, "Oh SH*T !"
Only the states of North Carolina , South Carolina , Virginia ,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi,
Missouri, Louisiana, Texas and West Virginia were different, where
89.3 percent of the final words were:
"Hold my beer, I'm gonna try somethin."
That's our government for you. They needed to pay for a study to learn something that is common knowledge. LOL Besides that.....everybody knows that you don't want to spill your beer.
I firmly believe that if the black box was more like sixty that fifteen seconds, 74% would capture, "Hey y'all, watch this!"
hehe that was even funny for a Brit ;D
Took me a couple of days to find it, but here is what the Canadian government found out.
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A Winter Statistic...
[picture of snowy side road didn't come through]
98% OF CANADIANS SAY "OH SHIT" BEFORE GOING IN THE DITCH ON A SLIPPERY ROAD.
THE OTHER 2% ARE FROM WINNIPEG.
THEY SAY,
"Hold my beer and watch this!"
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