Did seat belt save mans life?
For video from Cleveland’s WKYC, see bottom of page. The lone survivor from a van in the weekend accident that claimed the lives of six people was wearing a seat belt — and that could be the reason he’s alive today, Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook said. Seven Michigan residents, including 28-year-old Nitin Gupta, were traveling in a minivan through Erie County on their way to Niagara Falls on Saturday afternoon when the van crossed a grass median on Interstate 90 and struck an oncoming car. Six of the seven were killed on impact. Gupta, the lone survivor in the van, was the only passenger wearing a seat belt. Driver Kaushik Deb also was wearing a seat belt, but was crushed in the wreckage, Cook said. “I don’t know how much of a difference seat belts would have made to the other passengers due to the damage of the vehicle,” Cook said. “But this is proof positive that the use of seat belts and restraints certainly increases your chances of surviving a crash of any kind.” State police at
