JAL1639

My wife had a good friend who was killed by an ******* in a Supra. She was a bit of a party girl and she had a need for speed, she NEVER wore her seat belt. The guy driving had taken his friends twin turbo Supra without permission, while he was out of the country. They were both drunk and he was doing about 100 when he hit the nitrous and could not hang on to all that power. He left the road and hit a tree, she came out of the the car hit another tree and the car hit her. A guy that my wife worked with, his wife, was an EMS that was on the seen. She said that the girl that came out of the car had her arm severed and was dead on the scene. The guy driving is doing 20 years. This was in Charleston,SC. If you live there you probably heard about it. It happened in Jan of 2001.

5SpeedP5

****, that sucks..... but i dont see how people could ever ride in a car with out a seat belt..... first thought when i enter a car is seatbelt for me, its just not worth not wearing one..... i guess its just how ive been brought up that we dont go anywhere till i buckle up, and so now if your in my car you wear your seat belt or you get the **** out!

bmassche

Right on, Seat belts save Lives, but even witha seatbelt going 100, or even 50, and hitting a tree, your dead, your brain is

jay93dx

Technically the tree killed her, but like i have said time and time agian there are consequences to your actions, if you drink there are consequences if you drive there are risks involved and if you go fast there are also consequences, you put them all together and there are major consequences like 20 years in the state penn.

Makaveli

Actually if you're doing 100...... seat belts won't save you.....

the best case scenario would be to fly through the windshild and not smash into the tree or have the engine compartment go through you...... if they were going a bit less, I would've said that the best case scenario would be to hope that the seat belt only dislocates a shoulder or collar bone, and that you only get a major concussion from stoping so abruptly.....

my friend got in an accident on his bike once, and while he was going only ~55 km/hr (about 30 mph?)...... he rear ended an SUV in front of him..... no external injuries really, but since he deccelarated so fast, he had internal injuries..... so they had to remove his splean (sp?)

Sir Nuke

everyone here can find cases where wearing a seatbelt did more harm than good....HOWEVER....on average...you are WAY safer with it on, than without it...no matter what the speed.....you NEVER get into a car and take off down the road with the INTENT on getting into an accident....but **** happens.

When I first started driving I NEVER even put the key in before buckling up....that was before shoulder belts were in cars....once they hooked them together, and before PASSIVE restraints....shoulder belts were a MAJOR PAIN IN THE BUTT...and I quit wearing mine....the seatbelt that is....then passive restraints came about...I still didnt' wear one.....then they made it the law...and I started again....it wasn't a real long time after that I was a passenger in a car....and there was an accident caused by an ICY raod....happened at 60 mph....the car rolled down the highway for a long ways....there wasn't a single piece of sheet metal on the car that didn't look like crumpled up aluminum foil....the officer at the sceen told us both that had we not been wearing our seatbelts we would both most likely be dead.....just 6 years ago I was in another accident.....the officer that showed up looked at me and said " YOU were in that car?, and you are walking around? you probably NEVER need to EVER buy a lottery ticket EVER AGAIN...I think you just used up ALL your luck." here is a picture of my car AFTER the accident.


SEAT BELTS ARE A GOOD THING!!!

NoahsMP5

I feel like I'm going to fall out of my seat without one. And I don't care who you are if your in my car you where it. Thats pisses off alot of people but as long as you in my car your my responsibility.