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Originally Posted by sugarwood
Can you explain why?
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Sure. Take a simple rear end accident where your caged car is hit from behind by another vehicle. On the street, with a normal vehicle, if you get hit hard from behind you open yourself up to serious neck injuries and that sort of thing from the impact. Mostly, and this is unscientific, mind you, people will survive a hard rear impact even though they are injured.
Same thing happens in your caged car. Because you are not wearing a harness like you would in a race car, and because you don't have a helmet, you open yourself up to your head making contact with the roll cage, which could result in anything from a skull fracture to a tbi, all the way to death.
I am going to call upon you to use your imagination as to what happens when you have:
1. A folding, not fixed seat like in most non-race cars.
2. Retractable seat belts, not fixed length harnesses.
3. No helmet
4. A piece of metal inches form your head.
I think you get the idea. In my opinion - it is just my opinion - driving in a car with a full cage when you lack the appropriate safety gear raises your chance of dying from an otherwise survivable accident.
Just my $0.02.
I wouldn't even ride in that car on the street as a passenger.