Yes. Seat belt plus the air bag. Head on into a tree that didn't budge. The tree saved me from hitting a gas line/gasmeter.

Quit possibly. I was driving along a mountain highway once when I lost control of the pickup truck I was driving. I wound up rolling it down the side of the mountain. When it came to rest, it was on the passenger side and I was hanging from the seat belts. A number of things that were in the cab with me were ejected from the truck. Some of them I never found. I, however, escaped with no serious injuries. I even climbed out through where the windshield used to be and back up to the road without any help. I hate to think of what would have happened to me if I hadn't been wearing my seat belts that day. **************** "Bob Blaylock: I remember going with our parents to get you in Santa Ynez after that mishap. I remember seeing the wreckage of the truck. I don't think you would have survived without the seatbelt." The truck looked a lot worse when you saw it than when I climbed out of it. If it had been in the condition that it was in when you saw it when it came to rest, they would have had to cut me out of the cab rather than my being able to climb out myself.

Although I have never personally had my life saved by a seatbelt, I have been witness to many incidents where a life may have been saved by a seatbelt. In one of my past lives, I worked as a firefighter/EMT. During the 5 year period I was on the department, I responded to hundreds of automobile accidents. There are two accidents in particular that stand out in my mind. The first one was a young woman who had recently gotten her driver's license. She was driving a Chevrolet pickup truck, and she took her eyes off of the road momentarily. She went straight where the road curved. She crashed head-on into a telephone pole at approximately 15 miles per hour (25 KPH). She was not wearing a seatbelt at the time, and she made contact with the windshield. She ended up with serious head and neck injuries. She was hospitalised for over a month, and spent almost a year in rehab. She was extremely fortunate that she didn't end up paralysed from the neck injury. The second accident that stood out for me was a young man and woman in a Chevrolet Camaro. It was 1:00 in the morning, and we received a call for a serious car accident. When we arrived, the Camaro was upside-down in a cemetary, on the wrong side of a stone wall. The car looked as if it had been completely crumpled into a ball of twisted metal. To our great surprise, both occupants of the car were conscious and talking when we arrived. It took almost an hour to cut them from the wreckage using the Hurst Tool (Jaws of Life). The female passenger didn't have a scratch on her. The male passenger had a broken ankle from his foot being caught under the brake pedal when the car flipped over. As we were transporting him to the hospital, he told me that he rarely used his seatbelt. When he picked his sister up at a friend's house to drive her home, she insisted that he wear his seatbelt, because she had recently seen a movie called "Room To Live" in her driver education class. He told me that he failed to negotiate a turn, hit a curb at 50 miles per hour (80 KPH), and the car rolled over three times before coming to a rest on its roof. Those two accidents were almost 20 years ago, and I am still astonished by the extent of the injuries to the girl without a seatbelt, and to the lack of injuries to the two who were wearing their seatbelts. These are still the best arguments I have ever come across for wearing my seatbelt.

I used to be a long-haul trucker and about 2 years ago on a two lane road in Texas another trucker went to sleep and came over into my lane and hit me square head on. I was running about 65 mph, I dont know how fast he was going. State Troopers said about the same as me. I remember very well the instant I hit the end of the seat belt. It kept me from going out the windshield. I was very lucky, it killed the other driver (no seat belt, was buckled together behind the seatback) and should have killed me from looking at the truck after it was over. I had cuts and bruises, but no broken bones or serious injuries.

not for me wile offroading as a tean in a CJ7 with 3 of me other friends i was in the back no seat belt all others had thers on we rolled off the side of a steep incline wile i was ejected and throuw to safty my friend wernt 2 were killed and 1 baddly injerd i got up and walked away

Yep. Flipping a car onto it's roof into a ditch is rough even if you land in 2 feet of loose, powdery snow. Without our seat belts, my wife and I probably have landed on our heads and snapped our necks.

Not yet.

Yes. I was in a head on collision and if I wouldn't have been wearing a seat belt I wouldn't have stayed in the car.

Maybe. I flipped my car once. I had i mark from the seatbelt. I assume it helped.

actually, i had been in a car accident about a year back with my boyfriend at the time. he took a corner too fast in his Jimmy and than tried to straiten out. we ended up tipping over and rolling at least 3 times. the roof caved in on us and i ended up in the drivers seat along with him. neither of us were wearing our seatbelts but managed to crawl out of the shattered windsheild and walk aay from it all. later on that night when the cops arrived they automatically informed us that if we had been wearing our seatbelts we would have been stuck inside and ultimately crushed. i than found out that a pole from the back of the truck had made its way through the head rest of the passenger seat i started out in. also, if we would have been restrained than the crushing of the roof would have left us paralyzed or worse. therefore, i question whether or not there should actually be a law to wear your seatbelt. because i know that if i would have done so that day, the law would have killed me.,

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