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Originally Posted by chipj29
My wife will NOT put on her seatbelt. I don't care to bring it up anymore, I have been begging her for years, and she just won't do it.
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Well I was a seat belt late comer. Like your wife there was a time where I would not put mine one. I saw a family burned to a crisp because they where wearing their seat belts in Seattle when I was about 12. Sure they all survived but spent months recovering from burns because they could not be easily removed from the car, and had to wait for firefighters.
I also stopped at an accident scene when I was older with a car on fire, and once again although the door was open the heat was to much to get close enough to pull the person from the car. And again the person had to wait for firefighters
In short a seat belt does trap you and make you hard to extract in extreme circumstances.
So what got me to where my seat belt religiously you may ask..... well I started wearing mine off and on, while living in Vermont... it was the law after all.... and then one winter day, while wearing my seatbelt the black ice took me for a ride, down into gully and on my side. Well I know how much I got thrown around with the seat belt on, and had a bruise or two to show for it. However I realized at that moment, I probably would have been tossed around a lot more had I not had that belt on, and probably been knock unconscious.