Posted by Krazy Kat at 64.42.234.233 on June 12, 2003 at 12:31:14:
In Reply to: this calls for a poll - worst/ first/ last car posted by chedderfish on June 12, 2003 at 12:18:43:
: when my mom was 20 years old, she and her brother and her soon to be sister-in-law, were driving in a convertible. They were hit by a large truck and were thrown from the car (there were no seatbelts in the car).
My mother broke her leg badly and a metal pole was put in it. My uncle and his girlfriend ended up in comas. He lost all memory of being a drug dealer and she lost her sense of taste and smell.
Now you would think that it if the car had had seat belts, maybe they wouldn't have been hurt so badly. But this is not the case. A large piece of metal from the truck had gone directly through the passenger seat where my mom had been sitting. Had there been seatbelts she would have been struck right through the chest and killed.