“Back in the day, a favorite pastime of non-restrained front seat passengers was to be launched through the front non-safety sharding glass at the same speed the car was traveling”
Actually, my cars have seat belts, and I’ve always used them, even years before they were mandated.
In your case, consider yourself lucky for having survived such STUPIDITY.
You must have missed something mate...that never happened to me but I saw it more than once for others. My cars have seat belts to..,now, but they didn’t in the early 50’s and before. You were just an unguided missile,