Friendly reminder that if you are ever tempted to not wear your seatbelt because it is bothering you, there dozens of affordable seatbelt accessory’s that make them more comfortable and even correct the positioning to make them more effective.
This reminds me of the seatbelts are sexist discourse I saw going around a few years ago
…the what
Yeah the basic idea was that seatbelts are uncomfortable/don’t fit well on boobs and therefore are sexist and shouldn’t be worn.
It was absolutely stupid
Somebody even said seatbelts have caused injuries in crashes to include breast amputation; which is technically true but is also a classic example of survivorship bias.
This!!! We rolled once when I was a kid. Because it was a low speed roll, I was the only one injured and it was because of my seat belt. Bruises from hanging from the “ceiling” by the seat belt, and I banged up and cut my arm on the rear view mirror glass (it was so low energy roll the ONLY glass that broke was the mirror) from when I landed after unbuckling… and I will still wear my seat belt every single time I’m in a car.
Because if that had been a normal speed roll, not even higher speed, I’d have been the only SURVIVOUR. I’d probably have been fucked up by it being a lap belt, but I’d be alive.
WEAR YOUR FUCKING SEAT BELT!
(And also, when walking your dog on country roads at night, have lights and visibility vest for both you AND your fucking dog. My poor mom, with two kids in the car, swerved to miss the dog, saw the person, had to make the call on person, dog, or ditch, and instead of taking out the fucking MORON in the middle of the road, she slowed as much as she could in the time she had and took the ditch. To this day, I don’t know how she didn’t beat the man to death after… I’d have pounded him into the gravel if that had happened to me with The Kid in the car.)
I’ve been in a rollover where the car blew a tire going 90mph and rolled 6 TIMES.
The seatbelts, which both people were wearing, kept us inside the frame. The frame held.
With the seatbelt, all I got was bruises and scared. Without it, my skull would have been basically an egg in a blender.
