Transcript: Commentary: Riding in the back of pickup trucks

MICHELE NORRIS
All Things Considered (NPR)
09-24-2004
Commentary: Riding in the back of pickup trucks

Host: MICHELE NORRIS
Time: 9:00-10:00 PM

MICHELE NORRIS, host:

As a child, commentator and medical student Joe Wright spent a lot of time riding around in the back of pickup trucks. Now he's not so sure that that was such a good idea.

JOE WRIGHT:

Nowadays, my home state of California and many other states have had the good sense to stop people from riding in the back of pickup trucks without seats and seat belts, and most especially not children. When I was a kid, I don't know if the dangers occurred to anyone else, but they certainly didn't occur to me. My stepdad, Ernie, drove a ...

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