(June 25, 2015 at 1:45 pm)Chad32 Wrote: My mother refuses to wear a seatbelt because she was in an accident one time where she would have lost her legs if she hadn't been thrown into the back seat. Though in a wreck I was in, I would have shot through the windshield if I hadn't worn my seatbelt.
Then that is not because of the seat belt in her case, it is a design flaw in the rest of the car and the conditions of the impact. The seat belt is not the entire car.
In the case of your accident, not wearing one would more likely produce that outcome if you had not worn your seat belt.