No-brainer: ALWAYS wear your seatbelt.

It's second nature to me, because my parents were always very strict about it. I instinctively reach for the seat belt as soon as I get into the car. And I'm teaching my daughter the same. She doesn't like it, but she'll like it much more than what could have happened to these guys...

I was a kid, on my way to baseball practice with my dad and brothers. Some lady driving in the opposite direction was tying her shoes while driving. Head on collision, I was lifted out of seat before the seat belt engaged. I had a bruise like that for weeks..... Only injury I had though, everyone had seat belts on, everyone walked away without much injury.

I had bruises just like that and even worse than all these pictures with the marks across my lower belly from an accident in December 2018. PEOPLE STAY OFF YOUR FREAKING PHONES WHEN YOU DRIVE!! The kid couldv'e killed me and he was playing a freaking game on his phone when he hit me!!!

I was in a car crash with a passenger. I was wearing my seat belt, he was not. I walked out he went away in an ambulance. WEAR YOUR SEAT BELT.

y'all: Look up Kailee Mills, she was my best friend. She died because she took off her seatbelt to take a selfie, please, always wear your seatbelt

My dad was a Coroner, and I remember that he went to an aircraft company and purchased seat belts for both front and rear seats in our 50s and 60s era cars. When we got another car, he took out the seat belts and put them in the next car. First car that came with seat belts was our 1967 Mercury Cougar. He had been to so many car accident scenes that were fatal, with the occupants going through windshields, that he didn't want to take a chance. Pretty neat huh! I always ALWAYS wear my seat belt..no matter that I have to drive down our own private road. So happy everyone survived on this page and is sharing their stories!

There''s a beautiful TV commercial out there that shows a family in their living room. Dad is pretending to drive, while Mom and Daughter watch from across the room. Everyone's smiling. Suddenly, Dad acts like he's getting into a car accident. Mom and Daughter rush across the room. Mom wraps her arms around Dad's chest, and Daughter wraps her arms around Dad's waist--like a seatbelt. Together, they mime a crash, lurching forward suddenly, then easing back. Everyone smiles again. Moral: If you won't wear your seatbelt for yourself, wear it for THEM. (If this link doesn't work, search "Embrace Life" on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8PBx7isoM )

It would appear that having tattoos or a beard leads to dangerous car accidents. Seriously though, years ago in my country where nobody cared if you wore a seatbelt (Zimbabwe) I insisted that everyone wore them, front and back seats, or I refused to drive, and I had the keys, so the other three grudgingly complied. On an African half paved/half dirt road, we had a double blow out. I did my best but car went catapulting out of control and rolled several times. Last thing I remember was how green the leaves looked with the sun shining through them and then I closed my eyes because I didn't want to see my own death. But somehow the car dug into the sand and stopped inches from the tree, and we lived. All of us. Because of the seatbelts. There was no other protective technology in the car. Seatbelts saved our lives.

As someone who sells new cars, I see this stuff too often. Not the seatbelt marks, but all the bruises and black eyes and scrapes and broken limbs. It doesn't happen a lot, but I have to tell people to put their seat belt on at times. Seriously, why wouldn't you use everything necessary to safeguard your life? Of course, I also have shut down test drives because people drive way too fast, blow off stop signs, aren't paying attention, and so forth.

My little brother didn't wear his seat belt and is now paralized his girlfriend who was wearing hers walked away with minor injurys

My brothers life was saved by him wearing his seat belt. He was passing a stopped car and when he changed back into his lane he hit black ice slid back into incoming traffic. Fuel tanker came around the bend as my brother was trying to reganlin control and hit black ice on his end of the lane hit my brother's work truck head on. My brother broke both his femurs shadered his left knee cap had tons of brusing. My dad had to watch first responders cut my brother out if his work truck with the jaws of life.

I had a nice blue sash bruise after I totaled my little Ford Escort one winter day. Head on collision with another car, we were both sliding on ice and lost control. I wound up cracking my sternum from the pressure from the seat belt, was better than what could have happened.

I believe it took a lot of courage for the men to allow themselves to be photographed, and to turn their terrible misfortune as a way to teaching people. We're lucky they did.

I always think about this, and always wear my seatbelt. My freshman year of college, while I was away, a group of high schoolers from my old high school (who were also my brother's age) got in a wreck. The driver and front passenger were wearing belts and had only minor injuries. The other passengers weren't. They got thrown from the car. One died at the scene and another spent two months in a coma before he died. The other two spent weeks in the hospital. One of the kids who died and one of the kids who spent weeks in the hospital were both kids I had tutored for years. Not to mention it easily could have been my brother in that car. Wear your seatbelt, please.

See people, listen to TheOdd1sOut when he says ALWAYS WEAR YOUR SEATBELT!!!

In the UK the driver will be booked if any of their passengers is not seat belted - seat belts for both front seats and back seats is the law (as are car seats for children of various heights and ages, with a waiver for taxis and for people like grandparents who wouldn't habitually be driving their grandkids).

Seatbelts save lives ! Even the strong, tough guys attest to this ! If they belt up, maybe we should to !!!

When I married, decades ago, I was laughed at because I wore a seatbelt whilst in full wedding regalia.

I have always worn a seat belt since they first became available. My brother was a rally driver and I realised the importance of wearing one when he used to do 100 mph down forest tracks throughout the UK when participating in the RAC Rally. His belt saved him quite a few times. I thought that it was a cool thing to wear. My belt is so comfortable that I don't know I have it on and I refuse to take passengers unless they belt up. It's only idiots who don't wear seat belts.

I was it by drunk driver, T-boned. I was excessive speed as was he. The seat belt and airbag saved my life. My right breast is smaller due to these injuries. I am a lmk I've due to these devices.

Don't wear a seatbelt ..... get killed .... pretty simple !

I really think these pictures hit home.

We had friends of the family get into a wreck, I don't remember how, but they collided with a parked car (on the side of a major road here) going the speed limit (55 mph). The driver and front passenger were wearing their seatbelts and managed to walk away sore, but in one piece. The passenger in the back seat was NOT wearing their belt, and went between the front seats, into the foot well on the passenger side, broke a number of facial bones, broke her leg, and had to be hospitalized, and in a care facility for some time to fully recover! So it's important (and a rule in our vehicles since before this happened) that it doesn't matter how old you are, our cars do not move until you are safely buckled in!

Wow...

Jiminy. Some of those pictures are crazy but for sure seatbelts are a complete no brainer. Always wear them. Even parking your car from one spot to another. You just never know.

Yikes, they must have been in really bad accidents. I destroyed my car at 16 and got some bruising from the seat belt but nothing like these guys. I wonder if this campaign is actually convincing people who don't wear seat belts to change their ways? Seems like it might just give people who wear them more reason to do so.

Crazy how a strip of nylon can save a life, but we all know several someone's who refuse to click it.