Riddler's Gauntlet-reloaded

**Illuminati** · 07-07-2003, 06:59 PM

Well, time to get another one from the book. This one is called 'The Busy Hospital'.

St. James Hospital handled all the accident cases for the city. They were kept especially busy by the large number of drivers and passengers injured on the city's roads. To improve road safety, a law was passed making the wearing of seat belts mandatory.

Drivers and passengers now started to wear seat belts in their cars. The frequency of road accidents remained exactly the same. However, the hospital was now even busier handling road-accident victims than before.

Why?

**Lamsey** · 07-07-2003, 07:00 PM

The number of cases involving whiplash increased?

**Illuminati** · 07-07-2003, 07:06 PM

Right direction, wrong way. Kinda like 60 degrees to the answer rather than 180

**dgmortal** · 07-07-2003, 07:51 PM

Originally posted by Illuminati@7 July 2003 - 13:59
Well, time to get another one from the book.  This one is called 'The Busy Hospital'. 

St. James Hospital handled all the accident cases for the city.  They were kept especially busy by the large number of drivers and passengers injured on the city's roads.  To improve road safety, a law was passed making the wearing of seat belts mandatory. 

Drivers and passengers now started to wear seat belts in their cars.  The frequency of road accidents remained exactly the same.  However, the hospital was now even busier handling road-accident victims than before.

Why?

either......

they still handle ALL of the accident cases?

or........

the accidents had nothing to do with the drivers or passengers, but with pedestrians?

**Illuminati** · 07-07-2003, 07:57 PM

First guess is a good clue in itself to the answer, but not the answer itself.

Second one's completely wrong - Sorry

**dgmortal** · 07-07-2003, 08:14 PM

is it accident victims from outside of the city?

**Lamsey** · 07-07-2003, 08:15 PM

Less people actually died in the accidents, so they were busier because there were more injured people and less dead?

**Illuminati** · 07-07-2003, 08:23 PM

And the cigar goes to my man, Lamsey!

The wearing of seat belts was successful in reducing the number of deaths from road accidents. People who without seat belts would have been killed (and taken to the morgue) now survived but with injuries. Consequently more people were treated for injuries than before.

Take one and leave the rest. NEXT!