FReegards!
Maybe a seat belt law would help. Cause we all know gun laws stop criminals.
How very sad. I hope she pulls through this okay somehow.
But a seat belt WOULD have helped. Air bags can be WORSE than nothing without them.
When I was young and stupid(er), I actually removed the belts from a car because I didn’t like the way that they looked.
This attitude continued until I got into an accident with a semi piloted by a sleeping driver, that with very slightly different luck, would have flipped my car over. It wasn’t illegal to drive without seat belts at the time but the state policeman asked me if I was wearing one while he was filling out a form. He told me that most of the time in that kind of an accident, the car would have flipped over, and in that case, he would have pulled out my unbelted dead body from the car. That changed my attitude.
Later after belts were mandatory in Illinois, they changed the laws to allow “contributory negligence” in adjudicating an accident. That means, if you are injured in an accident not your fault, and you weren’t wearing a seat belt, you could get money for medical and auto repair/replacement bills, but you would get up to and including nothing for “pain and suffering”. So, even if you think that you are invulnerable, there is the financial aspect.
FReegards!