• RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    a highway patrol captain gave a safety seminar at my old job, and I still remember what he said about seatbelts - after decades on the highway, working countless crash scenes, he had only had to un-buckle one dead person from a crash. All of the other dead people in crashes were not wearing theirs.

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      My seatbelt did save me. My work van got T-boned by a semi that blew a red light (dumb American traffic light highway intersection), and my belt saved me from getting a shifter knob added to my abdominal cavity.

      Wear it, y’all.