On 30 Sep 2007 22:42:15 GMT, (Andrew
Gabriel) wrote:

In article ,
Derek Geldard writes:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:25:09 +0100, Owain
wrote:
I thought that seatbelts were blamed for shifting road accident
fatalities from passengers to pedestrians?

And for "Risk Compensation" .

Drivers think they are asbestos and drive round like Valkyries.

I've got this theory that if toy cars (matchbox cars in my day)
were made of aluminium foil, kids might grow up with a little
more appreciation of how fragile real cars are.

Actually Dinky Toys, (Don't know about Matchbox, or Moko Lesney) were
probably a couple of orders of magnitude stronger than real cars (are
now ! ) .