>The National Transportation Safety Board recently divulged they had
> "covertly" funded a project with the U.S. automakers for the past 5
> years, whereby the automakers were installing black-box voice recorders
>
> in 4-wheel drive pickup trucks and SUV's in an effort to determine in
>fatal accidents, the circumstances in the last 15 seconds before the
>crash.
>
>They were surprised to find in 38 of the 50 states the recorded last
> words of drivers in 61.2 percent of fatal crashes were, "Oh $$it !"
>
>Only the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Oklahoma,
> Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Lousiana
> and Texas were different, where 89.3 percent of the final words were:
> "Hold my beer, I'm gonna try somethin."
> "covertly" funded a project with the U.S. automakers for the past 5
> years, whereby the automakers were installing black-box voice recorders
>
> in 4-wheel drive pickup trucks and SUV's in an effort to determine in
>fatal accidents, the circumstances in the last 15 seconds before the
>crash.
>
>They were surprised to find in 38 of the 50 states the recorded last
> words of drivers in 61.2 percent of fatal crashes were, "Oh $$it !"
>
>Only the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Oklahoma,
> Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Lousiana
> and Texas were different, where 89.3 percent of the final words were:
> "Hold my beer, I'm gonna try somethin."
