Political Quotes

“I would like to speak on an incident last week that raises serious questions about national passenger safety standards for motor vehicles. Crash Incidents On March 9, a 1981 Toyota pickup truck carrying 20 people overturned. Twelve people were killed. Eight people were injured. Of the four people wedged into the cab of the pickup, only the driver survived. Nine of the 16 passengers in the bed of the pickup, which was covered by a camper shell, were killed. Among the seven men and five women who died was a pregnant woman. The 16 people crammed into the back of this pickup were not required under California law to wear seatbelts because the pickup truck was covered by a camper shell. In October 1993, a 16-year-old was killed in the Daly City area when a half-ton pickup truck with 10 other young people overturned. In July 1993, seven young passengers in the bed of a pickup were killed when an alleged drunk driver lost control of his car in Commerce and struck the pickup truck. The victims in the pickup, six males and a female ranging in age from 14 to 20, were returning to the San Gabriel Valley from an outing to the beach. There were only two survivors. That same month, a teenager died in a traffic accident after a pickup truck rolled over three times, throwing him from the truck bed onto a road in Santa Ynez. The two passengers in the vehicle, both of whom were wearing seat belts, survived the accident.”