(October 31, 2015 at 12:05 pm)Chad32 Wrote: My mother is against wearing seatbelts because she was in a crash once where if she hadn't been thrown into the back seat, her legs would have been crushed.
I was in a crash once where if I hadn't worn my seatbelt, I would have gone through the windshield. Though part of the reason I wear mine is that I drove rather rough when I was learning to drive.
There are still people alive who remember when cars didn't have belts., and these people don't care as much about that particular safety feature. I think this is part of the reason why we see people driving without their belts, though another part of it is if you try to hammer something in a kid's head, the kid will rebel against it just because. Nobody in their twenties and thirties has ever seen an ad that encourages you to smoke, unless you went and looked for one, yet you still see young people smoking.
When I was a kid, our car was hit by a semi truck while we were stopped at a red light. My older sister had just asked my mom if she could take her seatbelt off but she obviously said no. My sister secretly took off her seatbelt anyways. When the truck hit her side she was thrown to the floor and her seat was completely crushed. It's one of the few things I agree with my mother on. She told my sister that she was really lucky and if she ever took her seatbelt off when the car was running again she probably wouldn't be so lucky. I never understand people who think that surviving an accident because you didn't have your seatbelt on means you shouldn't wear a seatbelt.
