Sorry this happened. I was in Fire Service for years and “Neither were using a seat belt” would just drive us nuts at PI accidents.
I am always in awe of our first responders who deal with such horrific scenes. I don’t know how they can handle it. I’d be traumatized & useless. I thank God for these gifted, heroic people.
I was spotty about wearing seatbelts until I was about 23, and doing a clinical rotation.
I saw a pretty young girl with the shape of a “Y” across her entire face, the edges of the puffy red tissue on either side held together by startlingly black stitches...it looked like Frankenstein stitches.
When I asked what happened, she said she was doing about 15 mph and ran into a pole while she wasn’t paying attention.
I must have been staring, because I think she read it on my face, and said “Funny. I thought somehow I could protect myself while going that slow, but it happened so fast...” as her voice trailed off and she looked away.
I wore my seatbelt religiously after that. I’ve seen far worse injuries than that, but I was unused to it then, and she was such an attractive young girl with such a horrible wound to her face.
I have no idea how First Responders can do that, be first there.