We've had a few incidents over the last 20 years where people have gone over an embankment and into water and died. Most recently (two years agao) a woman went off the road and into a creek and died from drowning, this was in a neighboring community, not in our response area. I don't know if in any of these cases a hammer device would have mattered, given the trauma of the fall in the first place.

Of the fatal wrecks I've worked, there have been all sorts of factors, but the number on thing I've seen is simply driving faster than the conditions permit. the worst kind of wreck, though, is the one where a knucklehead who is driving too fast kills someone who is driving safely. There's so many ways that this is bad I can' even begin to tell you.

The advice I give to young men is simple - dead guys don't get the girls. If you want to make it to the party, it's better to be late, and alive.

Now, as far as a res-q-me tool, I think that it's a nice idea, in concept, however, unless you affix it to your vehicle in a way that is incredibly secure, and you can remove it with one hand after a wreck (not always so easy) you won't be able to find the darn thing to use it. Anything tucked, velcroed or clipped WILL come off in a wreck at any speed over 15 MPH. We routinely find vehicle contents 75 and 100 yards away from wrecks (for example, on a fatal wreck I worked last year, we found the CD player that was in the guys car 65 feet down the road.