• SendPicsofSandwiches
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    7 months ago

    I’ve even seen people try to say it’s somehow more dangerous because of ridiculous anecdotal experience like “Well I knew this guy who got into a massive roll over accident while drunk and he couldn’t escape because of his seatbelt”. Yeah man the seatbelt was the problem here…

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        7 months ago

        Not that these extreme scenarios are always told from the perspective of the idiot that survived despite not using a seatbelt.

        First responders and ER doctors disagree on these accounts. Vehicles are literally designed to collapse around the passengers. That doesn’t work if the seatbelt isn’t keeping them in the safety zone.