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“During a collision three im-pacts occur — vehicle contact with outside objects; occupant contact with the interior of the vehicle; and a person’s internal organs contact inside the body,” Hampton said.

Read on and see why slogans like, “Seatbelts save lives” are more than slick, gimmicky adver-tising ploys.

Imagine yourself in a car driv-ing 45 mph on a county road. Your not wearing your seatbelt. The car leaves the edge of the roadway and strikes a bridge abutment with the right front headlight. The contact speed of

45 mph causes the car to begin to deform.

But the crash isn’t over. Now the car leaves the bridge and be-gins to rotate around the center of it’s mass. The speed has now been reduced to 20 mph. Why?

“The speed change that oc-curred due to the car/bridge in-teraction is 25 mph. This speed change is known as the Delta V,” Hampton said, “During this col-lision the occupants of the car would be traveling 45 mph also. As the car begins to deform and wrap around the bridge abutment the speed of the car is changed a total of 25 mph in a matter of

milliseconds. That is more severe than any amusement park ride known to man.”

The speed has changed, but the crash still isn’t over.

“As the occupants move for-ward at 25 mph the driver will contact the steering wheel with his or her chest. Their head will strike the windshield and their knees will strike under the dash, all at 25 mph,” Hampton said. “As the head stops against the wind-shield, the chest stops against the steering wheel and the legs stop against the dash, the third im-pact occurs to the floating organs inside the body.

Editor’s Note: This is the first is a three part series discussing the importance of seat-belts. Part 2 will appear in Monday’s edition and Part 3 will appear in Wednesday’s edi-tion.

By Marsha Millermarsha.miller@ardmoreite.com

Everyone has read about vehicle crashes, seen pho-tos of mangled wrecks,

maybe even been in a crash themselves. But descriptions of the outward cause of collisions is only part of the story, according to Capt. Ronnie Hampton, Com-mander Oklahoma Highway Pa-trol Troop F in Ardmore. Hampton says it’s what’s happening inside the vehicle during a crash that is critically important.

“As the occupants move for-ward at 25 mph, the driver will contact the steering wheel with his or her chest. Their head will strike the windshield and their knees will strike under the dash, all at 25 mph.”

— Capt. Ronnie Hampton,Commander Oklahoma Highway Patrol Troop F

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KINGSTON — Begin-ning in the next month, drug testing will be imple-mented for high school and middle school students at Kingston Public Schools.

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On Friday, state Rep. Pat Ownbey and Sen. Frank Simpson discussed the de-tails of their plan to con-vert the Ardmore Higher Education Center into a branch campus of South-eastern Oklahoma State University.

They spoke during the Legislative Luncheon sponsored by the Ardmore Chamber of Commerce at the Ardmore Convention Center.

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The brain continues for-ward on the stem and the frontal region strikes the inside portion of the skull, the heart begins to move forward and strikes the in-side of the chest wall and the knees and lower legs begin to break.”

Not a pretty picture is it?

Hampton said the great-er the speed change dur-ing a crash the greater the possibility of serious in-jury for all un-restrained occupants.

“If you have ever lis-tened to a commercial about On Star, you might remember hearing a voice tell the emergency re-sponders what the maxi-mum recorded velocity change was. This informa-tion is then radioed to trauma doctors who can then immediately make an informed decision on the type of care and tests to perform when the vic-tims reach the emergency room,” Hampton said.

Still not convinced to wear a seatbelt?

Then imagine your-self in this scenario that Hampton calls a “T-bone” crash, which is a leading cause of collisions on Cart-er County roads.

You’re behind the wheel of a Honda on a county road. You stopped at a stop sign but failed to see an approaching Chevrolet pickup driving at 45 mph.

Unaware you pulled about 15-feet away from the stop sign and have reached a speed of 10 mph when the pickup smashes into the driver’s door. “We first look at the distance the driver is from the front bumper of the Chevrolet during this collision and its less than 3 feet,” Hampton said. “As

the Honda loses its speed of 10 mph it now begins to move in the direction of the Chevrolet, assum-ing the Chevrolet’s Delta V was 15 mph, the Honda is now moving 30 mph at-tached to the front of the Chevrolet. Not only do we have a 40 mph Delta V for the driver of the Honda we

have a 90 degree angle of movement, all this occur-ring within 4 feet of the driver’s vital organs.”

So what is the driver’s impact with the interior of the car, and what is the impact of the driver’s in-ternal organs?

“During this type of col-lision the Honda’s driver would move toward the driver side of the car at a speed greater than 40 miles per hour. The left side of the body would con-tact the inside of the door as the front bumper begins to intrude into the car. The brain moves to the left striking the inside of the skull and the floating or-gans in the chest will move left striking and tearing as they attempt to contact the inside of the chest,” Hamp-ton said. “Although violent and disturbing, this is the

true reality of what occurs during a vehicle crash.”

Buckling up is the law, but do seatbelts really protect victims during a crash? Hampton said slo-gans like, “Seatbelts save lives” aren’t fiction, they are fact.

“Most front seat pas-sengers and new vehicles rear seats are equipped with webbing that covers the lap and over the top of the shoulder. A properly adjusted seatbelt sup-ports the strongest parts of the body — the pelvic area and the shoulders. Seatbelts allow the body to move slightly inside the car but prevent the

body from violently slam-ming into the interior. The webbing actually allows the body to somewhat wrap around the webbing which decreases the speed over a longer time frame so the floating organs and brain has an extended ride down time, thus reducing injury,” Hampton said.

Ardmoreite PollThe Ardmoreite polled 100 people with the fol-

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The resultsn Yes - 76n No -24The results are very similar to a 2010 study con-

ducted by the Institute of Public Affairs, University of Oklahoma, which concluded Carter County had the lowest compliance in the state with only 72 percent of all drivers buckling up.

Seatbelt TheoriesCapt. Ronnie Hampton, Commander Oklahoma

Highway Patrol Troop F, Ardmore, said a number of theories are used in determining exactly what happens inside vehicles during crashes and how those forces cause injuries and death.

Here are three equations that come into play and confirm seatbelts can reduce injury and save lives by reducing what the body endures.

Newton’s First Law of Motion Newton’s First Law of Motion states that an ob-

ject in motion stays in motion until acted upon by an outside unbalanced force.

“When we ride inside a car we are traveling the same speed as the car. When a collision occurs work energy is absorbed by deforming the car,” Hampton said.

Newton’s Third Law of Motion Newton’s Third law of motion says for every ac-

tion, there is an equal, but opposite reaction, that is equal in magnitude but opposite in direction.

Delta V/VelocityDelta V is the speed change that occurs during

a crash as a moving vehicle hit stationary objects like bridges, trees or buildings, or other moving vehicles.

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This accident shows the result of what is referred to as a “T-bone” accident.

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The anatomy of a crashEditor’s Note: This is the second part in a three-part series on the importance of seat-belts. Part 3 will run Wednesday.

By Marsha Millermarsha.miller@ardmoreite.com

A 2010 study by the Institute of Public Affairs — University

of Oklahoma shows only 72 percent of drivers in Carter County are buckling up. That percentage puts Carter County in last place in seat-belt compliance statewide.

“It’s really important that young parents today teach their children to use their seatbelts. Instilling that habit could just save that child’s life years from now when they’re 20 or 30.”

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Capt. Ronnie Hampton, Commander Oklahoma Highway Patrol Troop F in Ardmore, said the low compliance percentage is directly reflected in the number of Carter County drivers who are seriously injured or killed in vehicle crashes because they were not wearing a seatbelt.

The question is why are Carter County drivers and the occupants in their ve-hicles so lax about obeying the state’s seatbelt law?

Hampton said there may be several reasons affecting the conscious or unconscious decision not to buckle up. Those reasons range from com-plaints seatbelts are in-convenient and/or uncom-fortable to simply rejecting the idea a seatbelt really does play a vital role in protecting vehicle occu-pants.

“A lot of people grew up in families where seat-belts weren’t used, so they automatically disregard them,” Hampton said. “It’s really important that young parents today teach their children to use their seatbelts. Instilling that habit could just save that child’s life years from now when they’re 20 or 30,” Hampton said.

Can Hampton back up his seatbelts are lifesavers mantra?

The answer is yes. And he provides compelling evidence that during a crash the impact outside the vehicle has a critical impact on what happens to the driver and occu-pants on the inside.

Crash Impactsn Vehicle contact with

outside objectn Occupants contact

with interior of the carn Internal organs

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Favorite piece to play? “Danger Zone”

Why do you like band? “I like band because it gives me something to do.”

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Favorite piece to play? “She Works Hard for the Money” and “You Give Love a Bad Name”

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Imagine you’re inside a vehicle during the roll over crash Hampton describes below. More importantly, envision you and other occupants aren’t buckled up.

“The vehicle begins to roll onto the passenger side at 45 mph. The oc-cupants inside will begin to rotate in the opposite direction the vehicle is moving, but at the same speed the car is traveling. The unrestrained driver moves toward the driver’s door-window. If the win-dow is down or breaks the driver begins to exit through that area. Too many times that results in the car rolling over the person. Few times do the occupants get thrown free of a rolling car and if they do, they still strike the ground at highway speeds,” Hampton said.

“Our troopers see many collisions each year where if the driver or passengers would have buckled their seatbelt, they would be

alive today. Many times on rollover crashes the interior of the vehicle where the occupants were sitting is undamaged and the Delta V (velocity) involved was low. How-ever, we find someone was ejected or had the car roll over them and they lay on the ground dead. We can-not preach seatbelt use enough.”

Why seatbelts work

n Seatbelt webbing cov-ers the lap and the top of the shoulder and supports the strongest parts of the body — the pelvic area and the shoulders

n Seatbelts allow the body to move slightly, but restrain the body for vio-lently slamming into the interior of the vehicle

n Seatbelt webbing allows the body to “some-what” wrap around the webbing and decreases the speed the body is traveling over a longer time frame. This gives floating internal organs what Hampton calls an “extended ride down time” and reduces potential life-threatening injury.

“In my line of work we

say, ‘It’s not the speed that kills, it’s the sudden stop at the end.’ Think of someone jumping from six stories high with a bungee cord attached to them. Gravity is pulling that person regardless of weight toward the ground during the first second at 32 feet per second squared. So after fall-ing for one second they have achieved a speed of 21 mph. Many times they will be smiling and laughing, as they reach the end of the bungee line they began to slow to zero miles per hour before they are re-directed back into the sky. This is the same concept as a seatbelt; it is allowing the person to reduce their speed over a longer time frame,” Hampton said.

“However, if the bungee cord breaks and the per-son strikes the concrete surface, they come to an abrupt stop, and in most cases death occurs due to the impact of the organs inside the body. This is the same as a car crash with no seatbelt.”

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Seatbelts keep occupants of the vehicle from being ejected.

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In Springer, Billy Bob Bryant, Steve Fry and Louise Tovar are running for a spot on the board of trustees. The two top vote-getters will each be seated.

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