• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    It was common where I grew up well into the 90s for people to go on about how seat belts “trap” you in a car during a wreck… as opposed to flinging you from it to die on the road instead, I guess?

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        6 months ago

        My uncle survived because he was thrown clear!!

        Everyone has a story about a guy who got flung clear. I’ve never met anyone who has actually been flung clear. I do have a friend who got trapped in a car after it flipped when her hand was pinned by a broken seat. But the seat belt saved her life.

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        6 months ago

        Even more basic - I’ll bet none of those people had been in an accident serious enough to eject them in the first place. Who needs a seatbelt when you can just hold on?

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        6 months ago

        One of my close friends from elementary school was a good argument for seatbelts. She lost her Dad when he was ejected from his Jeep while off-roading, and it rolled over him

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          6 months ago

          I am personally a good argument for seat belts. I nearly died in an accident because I wasn’t wearing one in the back seat. Luckily, I bounced off on the driver’s seat, breaking half of my ribs in the process, instead of being ejected from the car.

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      6 months ago

      A lot of that was infomercial TV grifting too. There were so many companies selling “emergency tools” to cut seatbelts and shatter windows a few years ago.