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10 Car Crash Survivors Pose Proudly For A Chilling Photo Project To Raise Awareness About Seatbelt Safety
Shocking portraits of the searing bruises that seatbelts can leave behind after a car crash are being celebrated as survival badges of honor, and showing the importance of belting up.
The initiative is part of an NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) social awareness campaign to reduce the number of deaths on NZ roads. According to them, 90 people die each year because they weren’t wearing their seatbelt, most of whom are young men in rural areas. The confronting portraits are of 10 real-life road accident survivors, whose post-crash injuries were recreated by the SFX make-up company PROFX.
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Liam Bethell
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Kahutia Foster
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“A seatbelt really does leave a mark like this,” emergency medical specialist Dr. Natasha McKay, who provided her expertise to the road safety project, explained. “They will save your life, but they will leave you a mark to show how they’ve done it.”
Dion Perry
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The social ads had been shown on billboards around the country, with the survivors releasing emotional videos that tell their story. The aim is to get people sharing their own survival stories, stressing the positive impact of seatbelts and the joy of being alive to tell the tale.
Dan Mason
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NZTA, who worked closely with marketing communications company Clemenger BBDO, was looking to change the attitudes of some men, who view the seatbelt as an optional extra rather than a life-saving necessity. “We’re selling an undesirable product to these guys,” spokesperson Rachel Prince told Designboom. “Research told us they think seatbelt public announcements are for kids, for the elderly, for everyone else. We worked with them to make the undesirable something they wanted to buy.”
Rick Haira
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Dylan Chirnside
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Back in 2014, Willy Carberry’s car crashed into a power pole at speed before flipping over onto its side. He only survived the horrific accident because he was wearing his seatbelt, and he had the bruise marks across his chest to prove it.
Willy Carberry
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“F***ing put a seatbelt on,” was his blunt message to guys who think they are invincible. In an interview with stuff.co.nz, he stressed that fate can be out of your hands when you’re out on the road, it’s not necessarily going to be a fault of your own that leads to a crash. “”It doesn’t matter how short the trip is. You never know who’s going to come out of the intersection and t-bone ya, or reverse out of a driveway, or an old lady going down the road, having a stroke.”
James Mcdonald
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“If you don’t wear it, you’re gambling with your life, if you ask me.”
Will Giles
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James Liberona-Feek
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Check out some of the survivors’ hard-hitting and emotional videos below
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Here’s what people had to say – many shared their own stories
What do you think ?
Uwe Theiss 5 years ago
It should be, but in a world where people don't vaccinate their children because they believe that viruses doesn't exist, a lot of people seem to be able to live without a brain.
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Alexandru Bucur 5 years ago
Yeah. Unfortunately, I know exactly how that fells, because I've been in a serious accident as a passenger, courtesy of an 18 year old kid who didn't have a driver's licence, but whose parents got him a BMW Z3 for his 18th birthday... He took it out for a ride, got to the first intersection, braked too late and then T-boned us so hard we spun 120 degrees. I was insanely lucky he hit just behind me and I have no doubt about it, the seatbelt and airbag saved me. Also, you'd think the airbag feels soft, because it's a bag full of air? Wrong! it's like being punched and for the next minute you're trying to make head or tails of what has happened and why there's dust everywhere... (it's talcum powder that helps the airbag deploy smoothly). So yeah, for Pete's sake, wear your seatbelt. It WILL save you.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
I have very close friends who lost their only son in a similar accident, with the difference that the kid hit the passenger door. His dad had bought him his new car about a month before he got the license. Needless to say, my friends will never get over the loss.
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Withnail 5 years ago (edited)
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...
toldyouso 5 years ago
Same to me. My parents were very strict with that but unfortunately my uncles and aunts not so i always felt very uncomfortable when my cousins didnt seaten their belt and nobody said anything except me...
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Daria B 5 years ago
Always wear your seatbelts and motorcycle helmets. I'll never forget the impact and the millions of thoughts and feelings in that fraction of a moment when my helmeted skull hit the asphalt after my husband and I were catapulted off the bike at a sudden backtire malfunction.
RaroaRaroa 5 years ago
Yet her we still get people moaning that they're expected to wear a helmet when riding a bicycle. It ruins their hair or something.How can their brain be less important than their hair?
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Herb Eaversmells 5 years ago
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.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Nils Bohlin, an engineer at Volvo, invented the three-point seat belt in 1959. The 1950s were a time when pilots and racing drivers wore harnesses, but seatbelts โ where they were fitted in cars โ took the form of a rudimentary two-point waist restraint. In crashes, sometimes these did more harm than good. ..it has saved a million lives across the world and prevented even more serious injuries. Reducing your chance of injury or death by at least 50 percent in the event of a collision, it remains the most successful contribution to safety in the history of motoring. The reason the three-point seatbelt is so widely adopted is actually because Volvo opened up the patent so that any car manufacturer could use it in their design. They decided that the invention was so significant, it had more value as a free life saving tool than something to profit from.
Jo Bebe 5 years ago
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!!!
diane a 5 years ago (edited)
It isnt just people on phones who are a hazard. Drivers fiddling with the sat-nav, smoking while driving. If you drop a lighted cigarette on your lap at 70mph?? Don't know why smoking whilst driving is not banned - least you can drop your phone mid-conversation without setting yourself on fire. Fiddling with the CD player. Elderly drivers with poor eyesight and serious medical conditions. Look at our Prince Philip- he thankfully gave up his driving licence age NINETY FOUR after causing an accident, in which, luckily no-one was seriously injured. Would you be confident in a bus driver that age? I worked in retail in an area with a high proportion of elderly people. I was always concerned when they would just hold out a handful of notes and coins for me to help myself as they couldnt see well enough - with car keys in the other hand.
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Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
I remember back in the days when seat belt laws were first being put in place. I worked with so many people who said, "I don't wear a seat belt because it would trap me in the car." I tried to explain to them that they would be ejected from the car without the seat belt and they thought that was a good thing. People are stupid. Even back then the data was clear - seat belts save lives.
diane a 5 years ago
I have never been in a car without a seat belt - do not drive myself. I would feel distinctly unsafe without belting up. Ironically though my ex husband would probably have been dead (pre-seatbelt laws) had he been wearing one. He hit a large tree at 60mph- not his fault. He was thrown sideways by the impact which was lucky for him as the steering wheel column ended up embedded in the back of the driver's seat.
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John Louis 5 years ago
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.
Just saying 5 years ago
In the UK the driver will be booked if any of their passengers is not seat belted - seat belts 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).
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KarmaQueen 5 years ago
These are some chilling photos! On the way to dropping my daughter off at school this morning, I noticed on my dashboard that she had not put on her seatbelt. Her excuse, its a short drive and I have too many things to carry. Flat out told her I do not care, short drive, too many things in the hand, still can equal death.
Jennifer Erdossy 5 years ago
I was driving once with my mother-in-law in the backseat (at her own insistence). I couldn't win an argument with the woman ever, bless her heart. BUT - she didn't want to put on a seatbelt, and I said that was fine, but we weren't moving until she did. Let's just say I wasn't her favorite. And I miss her still, but she lived to a ripe old age.
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Michaล Jastrzฤbski 5 years ago
This. Safety measures are there for a reason. Know how to use them, and do use them. Same with motorcycle gear. DO wear that damned helmet and proper protective gear. You really want as much of ANYTHING between you and that guy that misses seeing you in traffing, as possible. From the helmet, up to and including stuff like Helite airbag vest. If you have it available - f*****g wear it. You are not immortal.
Louise Stange-Wahl 5 years ago (edited)
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!
Lisa Hearn 5 years ago
I was in a roll over, the car rolled 3 times before landing on its wheels on the other side of the road, it was the seat belt that saved my life.
Naomi Armitage 5 years ago
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 )
Jo Choto 5 years ago (edited)
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.
Linda Bertucci 5 years ago
I see that they also dont have the big incision scar of an exploratory laparotomy surgery...just another bonus
William Teach 5 years ago
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.
Waylynn Ruthenburg 5 years ago
Itโs so true I was in a very serious accident involving a semi on a highway and my seatbelt saved my life I had the intense bruising and swelling However because I wasnโt wearing it properly (tight at my hips) I was basically cut in half internally and I still have a large scar going half way around my torso so I have to stress please donโt wear it over your stomach/belly wear it properly
Melia Grobeck 5 years ago
My little brother didn't wear his seat belt and is now paralized his girlfriend who was wearing hers walked away with minor injurys
Ida Aho 5 years ago
My grandmother had a little trick to get me and younger siblings in seatbelts without fuss. My grandfather liked keep cough drops at car for dry mouth. We were allowed to have one only after putting on our seatbelts. So our sweet tooth and sibling competitive nature was used keep us safe. Also my grandmother always said that the car wonโt be moving before everyone has their seatbelt on so if we were going somewhere fun that was there too.
Amber Golish 5 years ago
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.
Elizabeth Scarborough 5 years ago
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.
Peta Hurley-Hill 5 years ago
My friends and I have always told our children that they absolutely have to wear their seatbelts,.We always checked,always made sure they were safely "clipped in".We thought they all understood.We thought all of them would be safe.Unfortuately,we can only protect them when they are small,once they are young adults,all you can do is hope they remember how important it is...... These are some of the thoughts that went through my mind just recently,as I helped to wash the body of my friend's beautiful 20 yr old daughter,in preperation for her funeral...Please,always wear a seatbelt.
Aurelia Grey 5 years ago
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.
Ellen Andrew C. 5 years ago (edited)
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.
Lizzie the Crayon 5 years ago
See people, listen to TheOdd1sOut when he says ALWAYS WEAR YOUR SEATBELT!!!
Just saying 5 years ago
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).
Lillukka79 5 years ago
In Finland, the one with out a seat belt will be fined 70โฌ. If a kid under 15 is with out, either the driver will be fined, or if the parent is on board, they will pay.
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tuzdayschild 5 years ago
Everyone who know me knows my car doesn't move until everyone is buckled.
Freya Fluharty 5 years ago
When I married, decades ago, I was laughed at because I wore a seatbelt whilst in full wedding regalia.
Hanna Uehre 5 years ago
How did they get all these people to pose after an accident? (Ok I'm always asking the weird questions.)
Pauline Stephenson 5 years ago
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.
R.s. Potter 5 years ago
I probably wouldn't be alive today if I hadn't been wearing my seatbelt in December 1997, when a car suddenly turned left in front of us.
Kathleen Farrelly 5 years ago
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.
JayLee Mathis 5 years ago
I've sported that mark for a few months thanks to ice and a bridge get on ramp. Thankfully I only lost a car and my son wasn't with me.
April Simnel 5 years ago
I wear my seat belt EVERY time. However, I'm very short, so even though I wear it, I sometimes wonder that if I were in an accident, would the belt snap my neck under the force of the car being hit?
Aunt Messy 5 years ago
No, but you can be injured badly by an air bag. You MUST be a minimum of 14 inches away from your steering wheel when you drive or the air bag will be what kills you. A woman in Texas died because she was sitting too close. The air bag deployed and crushed her rib cage.
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Bex Napier 5 years ago
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!
Barry Nolan 5 years ago
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.
Carol Emory 5 years ago (edited)
My mother was in a crash 17 years ago..driving a little '86 Honda Accord. She was t-boned in the drivers side door by an SUV flying down the road. It hit her so hard it sent her across 3 lanes of traffic into a ditch. She did not have her seatbelt on. She was thrown over the center console busting 2 of her ribs, she had a fractured foot, a broken shoulder blade and head lacerations. The firefighter that cut her out of the car said "This is the only time that not wearing a seatbelt saved her. If she had been wearing it, she'd be dead from her head impacting on the window and the SUV because the belt would have held her in place." You should still wear your seatbelt..but not all survivors have a seatbelt to thank for it. And before you down vote..see additional message below....
Carol Emory 5 years ago
Also..on another note..I lost two good friends to no seatbelts. One of them fell asleep behind the wheel on a long drive. The car went off the freeway and flipped several times. Both people in the front seat went through the windshield. The girl in the back went through the back window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Do not..I repeat..DO NOT DRIVE WITHOUT A SEATBELT!!
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Elizabeth 5 years ago
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.
Carol Emory 5 years ago
These weren't passengers..they were british drivers. British steering wheels are on the right side of the car. Other countries are on the left.
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Nickie Simpson 5 years ago
On a less serious note, some of these photos make me think of Fight Club. Just sayin' :-P lol!
Julianna Macy 5 years ago
I now really realize how serious this stuff can be when it comes to wearing your seatbelt.
Jenna Doan 5 years ago
That is dangerous to be unbuckled because having car accidents can lead to close death but folks who are uncool (people that think being unbuckled is cool) I think people should be more responsible and to be able to know that seatbelting is for your safety. God has given you only 1 chance to live and people have to take that responsiblility to make sure to not die early as possible because it is very unpleasant to get injuries during a car accident.
Jim Sinclair 5 years ago
With 23 years as a firefighter , I saw the changes made by the airbag + seat belt combination. The number of fatal collisions went way down. Roll overs alone accounted for hundreds of lives saved. Just wear your belt and your chances go up significantly. I still feel for the hundreds of soles I saw leave the earth due to traffic accidents. Don't be one of them.
Tracy Perry 5 years ago
I was in an accident in 2001m driving a 1980 van. I was wearing my seat belt. The seat belt pulled away from the mount and my head went through the windshield. Luckily, I survived with a concussion, broken hip and cuts and bruising. I am very thankful that the standards of seat belts have risen over the past several years. #SurvivorStory
Bluebell Rizzi 5 years ago
My only worry is that because I'm so short, my neck would take a damn hard slicing. But I will still wear it.
Nostalgic Hyena 5 years ago
I remember once I was driving in the car with my family as they suddenly slammed on the brakes.. the seatbelt hit me pretty hard for a minute. I can only imagine what it felt like for these people.
Teresa Doyle 5 years ago
My seatbelt protected me from serious injury last year. I was laid up for 3 months with a fractured sternum; but better my sternum than my head.
Catarina Pupillo 5 years ago
I would like to no how the other injuries happened. From the airbags?
Sebastian Melmoth 5 years ago
Wow...my parents always made my siblings and I wear seatbelts, even before it was mandatory (my grandparents had an orange Volkswagen Beetle, in the late 70s/early 80s that wouldnโt start unless the drivers side seatbelt was worn). Now I feel naked not wearing one.
Joseph Brzezinski 5 years ago
As a paramedic, I can attest to the safety of seatbelts. In every crash I ever worked, those who wore seatbelts sustained much less injuries than those who went without.
Connie Lee 5 years ago
i rolled my car 3 1/2times landing upside down and only didn't get thrown from my car because of the seatbelt. i scrapped my hand thats it
Caroline Driver 5 years ago
It's been a legal requirement in the UK for decades (also Canada I beleive). My mum used to be a casualty (ER) nurse and she saw so many mashed and destroyed faces as well as deaths, before seat belts were law. It's only the macho mindset that makes them feel that seat belts are for "women's private parts".
diane a 5 years ago
Think it would have been 1981/2 when it came into force in the UK
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Mr. Re-in-act-ment 5 years ago
You don't need to TikTok while you drive to the Gucci Shop, #WearASeltBelt
Carolina Ren 5 years ago
Too bad there aren't any ladies in the pics, I am curious of the mark it would leave. I have a big chest so I use the belt above my boobs
Jennifer Erdossy 5 years ago
you really shouldn't. it can slide up and hit your neck. i haven't had as serious an accident as these blokes, but i've had seatbelt bruises, for sure. but i haven't your gifts; sometimes i struggle to keep the bloody thing between the girls!
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Liesa Yopp 5 years ago
It's awesome that they are doing this campaign. I'm glad to see they survived and am sympathetic to the pain they were all in (been in a bad crash myself). However, sadly, only one of those people were wearing their belt correctly. They could have sustained much less injury if they had the bottom part along the lap / hips as intended.
hobbitly 5 years ago
They all have some sort of bruise near their eye, does anyone know why that is?
Aunt Messy 5 years ago
Probably the air bag from the driver's side door. They explode with a lot of force. Broken noses are also common air bag injuries.
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Stina Kolling 5 years ago
I really wish I could get my dad to wear a seatbelt; you would think 50+ years of being a volunteer fireman responding to all the car accidents would force him to acknowledge the need. Unfortunately, he's so stubborn he's STILL wearing his MAGA hat, which tells you how difficult it is for me or my stepmother to get him to change his opinion on things--and also how much he respects scientific facts such as accident statistics.
Philippe Jespersen 5 years ago
Damn... I know it saves lives, but those seat belt bruises scares the s**t outta me! ๐ฑ
Aunt Messy 5 years ago
You'd rather die than have a boo boo on your torso for awhile?
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Jasmine Walker 5 years ago
Love the message that's it's sending. Are these touched up/fake/or are the scars emphasized? Not knocking the photo AT ALL but some of these are intense.
Aunt Messy 5 years ago
Have you ever seen a really bad accident? If you bothered to read the article or the comments, you'd know that these injuries were recreated based on photographs taken after the accident, and that this really is what these injuries look like. ...///... This is NOTHING compared to what happens to people who don't wear their seat belts.
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Miklรณs Nagy 5 years ago
I can see a strong correlation between tha number of tatoos and the autocrashes you have from this post...
TeeMarieTisMe 5 years ago
Maybe they are trying to show that even stereotypical "tattooed tough men" wear their seatbets? Just a thought.
Load More Replies... Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
There are only seldom accidents on the road. More often than not, "traffic crimes" would be a better word for what is happening. Driving too fast; under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or medications; with tires that are too worn; while being on the phone; while being tired or getting sleepy means that you do not accidentally kill someone, it is wilfully endangering other people's lives, and it means that you are just very lucky when nobody dies because of you.
Joyce Brazel 5 years ago
MY LEGS WERE HIT WITH THE COVER OF THE UNDER THE DASH AIR BAG, UNDER THE STEERING WHEEL. THEY WERE BLACK AND BLUE FROM THE SHIN TO THE ANKLE WITH HUGE SWOLLEN KNOTS ON THEM AND THEN I GOT SHARP RAZOR LIKE PAINS THAT JUST CAME OUT OF THE BLUE. IT LASTED OVER A YEAR. THEY ARE STILL SORE WHEN YOU TOUCH THE KNOTS. NO ONE TOLD ANY OF US ABOUT THE COVERS! J.E.B.
Lee from Phoenix 5 years ago
I've always worn seat belts and even installed them in my cars before they came standard from the factory. Seemed like a good idea for the way I drove when I was younger. But I think airbags suck. I have no interest in having a bomb go off in my face during a minor fender bender.
Felicia Dale 5 years ago
We need better seatbelts. Seriously. Bruising like this shouldn't be happening, or at least not nearly so badly. I always wear a seat belt. My dad was a former race car driver when he (and my mom) taught me to drive and that was the first lesson hammered home, and not to get in any car that didn't have them, either. I also always wear a helmet for horse back riding, and full coverage clothes no matter what the weather. I have fallen off of horse and bikes at speed and it was only the protective gear that saved me- and a great deal of luck.
Lillukka79 5 years ago
They should add a few pictures of similar accidents where they didn't wear a seatbelt. Just to show how much worse it would be.
Jennifer Erdossy 5 years ago
The campaign was targeted toward a male audience, who (it seems) think it unmanly to wear a seat belt.
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Margaret Nugent 5 years ago
My husband refuses to wear a seatbelt as he is a hackney driver and says and I know this to be true it makes him a prime target for a mugging.Passenger can grab them through the glass partition payment hatch and they can't get away because of the seatbelt.I still believe he should wear a seatbelt and it breaks my heart that he won't when driving his hackney taxi .looking at these photos proves my point to him but alas he still won't wear one ...
Gerry Higgins 5 years ago
Nothing to worry have seat belt laws for adults. It's Natural Selection. Those stupid enough to NOT wear a seat belt should not be allowed to weaken the herd with their stupidity. It's kinder to let them die off. Children though need car seat laws to protected from stupid parents.
923harvey 5 years ago
I have had two accidents where the seat belt caused major injuries in accidents that would have been minor if not for the damage by the belt. I stil Wear mine but I think itโs really 50/50.
diane a 5 years ago
If your seat belt caused a major injury - think what would have happened had you been a loose object in the vehicle.
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David Maziuk 5 years ago
well if they didn't wear their seatbelts, they wouldn't have those bruises. problem solved
diane a 5 years ago
It isnt fake as in to decieve people. It is a realistic recreation of their injuries for a safety campagne. Am sure they would be working from photographs taken shortly after the initial accidents.
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Rumade Clothing 5 years ago
The campaign was specifically directed at younger men as they are statistically the least likely to wear them (and the most likely to take risks while driving in general)
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Bored Phoenix 5 years ago
Tjler i think youโd feel the same way if you almost died.
Load More Replies... Uwe Theiss 5 years ago
It should be, but in a world where people don't vaccinate their children because they believe that viruses doesn't exist, a lot of people seem to be able to live without a brain.
Load More Replies... Alexandru Bucur 5 years ago
Yeah. Unfortunately, I know exactly how that fells, because I've been in a serious accident as a passenger, courtesy of an 18 year old kid who didn't have a driver's licence, but whose parents got him a BMW Z3 for his 18th birthday... He took it out for a ride, got to the first intersection, braked too late and then T-boned us so hard we spun 120 degrees. I was insanely lucky he hit just behind me and I have no doubt about it, the seatbelt and airbag saved me. Also, you'd think the airbag feels soft, because it's a bag full of air? Wrong! it's like being punched and for the next minute you're trying to make head or tails of what has happened and why there's dust everywhere... (it's talcum powder that helps the airbag deploy smoothly). So yeah, for Pete's sake, wear your seatbelt. It WILL save you.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
I have very close friends who lost their only son in a similar accident, with the difference that the kid hit the passenger door. His dad had bought him his new car about a month before he got the license. Needless to say, my friends will never get over the loss.
Load More Replies... Withnail 5 years ago (edited)
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...
toldyouso 5 years ago
Same to me. My parents were very strict with that but unfortunately my uncles and aunts not so i always felt very uncomfortable when my cousins didnt seaten their belt and nobody said anything except me...
Load More Replies... Daria B 5 years ago
Always wear your seatbelts and motorcycle helmets. I'll never forget the impact and the millions of thoughts and feelings in that fraction of a moment when my helmeted skull hit the asphalt after my husband and I were catapulted off the bike at a sudden backtire malfunction.
RaroaRaroa 5 years ago
Yet her we still get people moaning that they're expected to wear a helmet when riding a bicycle. It ruins their hair or something.How can their brain be less important than their hair?
Load More Replies... Herb Eaversmells 5 years ago
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.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Nils Bohlin, an engineer at Volvo, invented the three-point seat belt in 1959. The 1950s were a time when pilots and racing drivers wore harnesses, but seatbelts โ where they were fitted in cars โ took the form of a rudimentary two-point waist restraint. In crashes, sometimes these did more harm than good. ..it has saved a million lives across the world and prevented even more serious injuries. Reducing your chance of injury or death by at least 50 percent in the event of a collision, it remains the most successful contribution to safety in the history of motoring. The reason the three-point seatbelt is so widely adopted is actually because Volvo opened up the patent so that any car manufacturer could use it in their design. They decided that the invention was so significant, it had more value as a free life saving tool than something to profit from.
Jo Bebe 5 years ago
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!!!
diane a 5 years ago (edited)
It isnt just people on phones who are a hazard. Drivers fiddling with the sat-nav, smoking while driving. If you drop a lighted cigarette on your lap at 70mph?? Don't know why smoking whilst driving is not banned - least you can drop your phone mid-conversation without setting yourself on fire. Fiddling with the CD player. Elderly drivers with poor eyesight and serious medical conditions. Look at our Prince Philip- he thankfully gave up his driving licence age NINETY FOUR after causing an accident, in which, luckily no-one was seriously injured. Would you be confident in a bus driver that age? I worked in retail in an area with a high proportion of elderly people. I was always concerned when they would just hold out a handful of notes and coins for me to help myself as they couldnt see well enough - with car keys in the other hand.
Load More Replies... Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago
I remember back in the days when seat belt laws were first being put in place. I worked with so many people who said, "I don't wear a seat belt because it would trap me in the car." I tried to explain to them that they would be ejected from the car without the seat belt and they thought that was a good thing. People are stupid. Even back then the data was clear - seat belts save lives.
diane a 5 years ago
I have never been in a car without a seat belt - do not drive myself. I would feel distinctly unsafe without belting up. Ironically though my ex husband would probably have been dead (pre-seatbelt laws) had he been wearing one. He hit a large tree at 60mph- not his fault. He was thrown sideways by the impact which was lucky for him as the steering wheel column ended up embedded in the back of the driver's seat.
Load More Replies... John Louis 5 years ago
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.
Just saying 5 years ago
In the UK the driver will be booked if any of their passengers is not seat belted - seat belts 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).
Load More Replies... KarmaQueen 5 years ago
These are some chilling photos! On the way to dropping my daughter off at school this morning, I noticed on my dashboard that she had not put on her seatbelt. Her excuse, its a short drive and I have too many things to carry. Flat out told her I do not care, short drive, too many things in the hand, still can equal death.
Jennifer Erdossy 5 years ago
I was driving once with my mother-in-law in the backseat (at her own insistence). I couldn't win an argument with the woman ever, bless her heart. BUT - she didn't want to put on a seatbelt, and I said that was fine, but we weren't moving until she did. Let's just say I wasn't her favorite. And I miss her still, but she lived to a ripe old age.
Load More Replies... Michaล Jastrzฤbski 5 years ago
This. Safety measures are there for a reason. Know how to use them, and do use them. Same with motorcycle gear. DO wear that damned helmet and proper protective gear. You really want as much of ANYTHING between you and that guy that misses seeing you in traffing, as possible. From the helmet, up to and including stuff like Helite airbag vest. If you have it available - f*****g wear it. You are not immortal.
Louise Stange-Wahl 5 years ago (edited)
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!
Lisa Hearn 5 years ago
I was in a roll over, the car rolled 3 times before landing on its wheels on the other side of the road, it was the seat belt that saved my life.
Naomi Armitage 5 years ago
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 )
Jo Choto 5 years ago (edited)
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.
Linda Bertucci 5 years ago
I see that they also dont have the big incision scar of an exploratory laparotomy surgery...just another bonus
William Teach 5 years ago
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.
Waylynn Ruthenburg 5 years ago
Itโs so true I was in a very serious accident involving a semi on a highway and my seatbelt saved my life I had the intense bruising and swelling However because I wasnโt wearing it properly (tight at my hips) I was basically cut in half internally and I still have a large scar going half way around my torso so I have to stress please donโt wear it over your stomach/belly wear it properly
Melia Grobeck 5 years ago
My little brother didn't wear his seat belt and is now paralized his girlfriend who was wearing hers walked away with minor injurys
Ida Aho 5 years ago
My grandmother had a little trick to get me and younger siblings in seatbelts without fuss. My grandfather liked keep cough drops at car for dry mouth. We were allowed to have one only after putting on our seatbelts. So our sweet tooth and sibling competitive nature was used keep us safe. Also my grandmother always said that the car wonโt be moving before everyone has their seatbelt on so if we were going somewhere fun that was there too.
Amber Golish 5 years ago
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.
Elizabeth Scarborough 5 years ago
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.
Peta Hurley-Hill 5 years ago
My friends and I have always told our children that they absolutely have to wear their seatbelts,.We always checked,always made sure they were safely "clipped in".We thought they all understood.We thought all of them would be safe.Unfortuately,we can only protect them when they are small,once they are young adults,all you can do is hope they remember how important it is...... These are some of the thoughts that went through my mind just recently,as I helped to wash the body of my friend's beautiful 20 yr old daughter,in preperation for her funeral...Please,always wear a seatbelt.
Aurelia Grey 5 years ago
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.
Ellen Andrew C. 5 years ago (edited)
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.
Lizzie the Crayon 5 years ago
See people, listen to TheOdd1sOut when he says ALWAYS WEAR YOUR SEATBELT!!!
Just saying 5 years ago
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).
Lillukka79 5 years ago
In Finland, the one with out a seat belt will be fined 70โฌ. If a kid under 15 is with out, either the driver will be fined, or if the parent is on board, they will pay.
Load More Replies... tuzdayschild 5 years ago
Everyone who know me knows my car doesn't move until everyone is buckled.
Freya Fluharty 5 years ago
When I married, decades ago, I was laughed at because I wore a seatbelt whilst in full wedding regalia.
Hanna Uehre 5 years ago
How did they get all these people to pose after an accident? (Ok I'm always asking the weird questions.)
Pauline Stephenson 5 years ago
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.
R.s. Potter 5 years ago
I probably wouldn't be alive today if I hadn't been wearing my seatbelt in December 1997, when a car suddenly turned left in front of us.
Kathleen Farrelly 5 years ago
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.
JayLee Mathis 5 years ago
I've sported that mark for a few months thanks to ice and a bridge get on ramp. Thankfully I only lost a car and my son wasn't with me.
April Simnel 5 years ago
I wear my seat belt EVERY time. However, I'm very short, so even though I wear it, I sometimes wonder that if I were in an accident, would the belt snap my neck under the force of the car being hit?
Aunt Messy 5 years ago
No, but you can be injured badly by an air bag. You MUST be a minimum of 14 inches away from your steering wheel when you drive or the air bag will be what kills you. A woman in Texas died because she was sitting too close. The air bag deployed and crushed her rib cage.
Load More Replies... Bex Napier 5 years ago
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!
Barry Nolan 5 years ago
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.
Carol Emory 5 years ago (edited)
My mother was in a crash 17 years ago..driving a little '86 Honda Accord. She was t-boned in the drivers side door by an SUV flying down the road. It hit her so hard it sent her across 3 lanes of traffic into a ditch. She did not have her seatbelt on. She was thrown over the center console busting 2 of her ribs, she had a fractured foot, a broken shoulder blade and head lacerations. The firefighter that cut her out of the car said "This is the only time that not wearing a seatbelt saved her. If she had been wearing it, she'd be dead from her head impacting on the window and the SUV because the belt would have held her in place." You should still wear your seatbelt..but not all survivors have a seatbelt to thank for it. And before you down vote..see additional message below....
Carol Emory 5 years ago
Also..on another note..I lost two good friends to no seatbelts. One of them fell asleep behind the wheel on a long drive. The car went off the freeway and flipped several times. Both people in the front seat went through the windshield. The girl in the back went through the back window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Do not..I repeat..DO NOT DRIVE WITHOUT A SEATBELT!!
Load More Replies... Elizabeth 5 years ago
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.
Carol Emory 5 years ago
These weren't passengers..they were british drivers. British steering wheels are on the right side of the car. Other countries are on the left.
Load More Replies... Nickie Simpson 5 years ago
On a less serious note, some of these photos make me think of Fight Club. Just sayin' :-P lol!
Julianna Macy 5 years ago
I now really realize how serious this stuff can be when it comes to wearing your seatbelt.
Jenna Doan 5 years ago
That is dangerous to be unbuckled because having car accidents can lead to close death but folks who are uncool (people that think being unbuckled is cool) I think people should be more responsible and to be able to know that seatbelting is for your safety. God has given you only 1 chance to live and people have to take that responsiblility to make sure to not die early as possible because it is very unpleasant to get injuries during a car accident.
Jim Sinclair 5 years ago
With 23 years as a firefighter , I saw the changes made by the airbag + seat belt combination. The number of fatal collisions went way down. Roll overs alone accounted for hundreds of lives saved. Just wear your belt and your chances go up significantly. I still feel for the hundreds of soles I saw leave the earth due to traffic accidents. Don't be one of them.
Tracy Perry 5 years ago
I was in an accident in 2001m driving a 1980 van. I was wearing my seat belt. The seat belt pulled away from the mount and my head went through the windshield. Luckily, I survived with a concussion, broken hip and cuts and bruising. I am very thankful that the standards of seat belts have risen over the past several years. #SurvivorStory
Bluebell Rizzi 5 years ago
My only worry is that because I'm so short, my neck would take a damn hard slicing. But I will still wear it.
Nostalgic Hyena 5 years ago
I remember once I was driving in the car with my family as they suddenly slammed on the brakes.. the seatbelt hit me pretty hard for a minute. I can only imagine what it felt like for these people.
Teresa Doyle 5 years ago
My seatbelt protected me from serious injury last year. I was laid up for 3 months with a fractured sternum; but better my sternum than my head.
Catarina Pupillo 5 years ago
I would like to no how the other injuries happened. From the airbags?
Sebastian Melmoth 5 years ago
Wow...my parents always made my siblings and I wear seatbelts, even before it was mandatory (my grandparents had an orange Volkswagen Beetle, in the late 70s/early 80s that wouldnโt start unless the drivers side seatbelt was worn). Now I feel naked not wearing one.
Joseph Brzezinski 5 years ago
As a paramedic, I can attest to the safety of seatbelts. In every crash I ever worked, those who wore seatbelts sustained much less injuries than those who went without.
Connie Lee 5 years ago
i rolled my car 3 1/2times landing upside down and only didn't get thrown from my car because of the seatbelt. i scrapped my hand thats it
Caroline Driver 5 years ago
It's been a legal requirement in the UK for decades (also Canada I beleive). My mum used to be a casualty (ER) nurse and she saw so many mashed and destroyed faces as well as deaths, before seat belts were law. It's only the macho mindset that makes them feel that seat belts are for "women's private parts".
diane a 5 years ago
Think it would have been 1981/2 when it came into force in the UK
Load More Replies... Mr. Re-in-act-ment 5 years ago
You don't need to TikTok while you drive to the Gucci Shop, #WearASeltBelt
Carolina Ren 5 years ago
Too bad there aren't any ladies in the pics, I am curious of the mark it would leave. I have a big chest so I use the belt above my boobs
Jennifer Erdossy 5 years ago
you really shouldn't. it can slide up and hit your neck. i haven't had as serious an accident as these blokes, but i've had seatbelt bruises, for sure. but i haven't your gifts; sometimes i struggle to keep the bloody thing between the girls!
Load More Replies... Liesa Yopp 5 years ago
It's awesome that they are doing this campaign. I'm glad to see they survived and am sympathetic to the pain they were all in (been in a bad crash myself). However, sadly, only one of those people were wearing their belt correctly. They could have sustained much less injury if they had the bottom part along the lap / hips as intended.
hobbitly 5 years ago
They all have some sort of bruise near their eye, does anyone know why that is?
Aunt Messy 5 years ago
Probably the air bag from the driver's side door. They explode with a lot of force. Broken noses are also common air bag injuries.
Load More Replies... Stina Kolling 5 years ago
I really wish I could get my dad to wear a seatbelt; you would think 50+ years of being a volunteer fireman responding to all the car accidents would force him to acknowledge the need. Unfortunately, he's so stubborn he's STILL wearing his MAGA hat, which tells you how difficult it is for me or my stepmother to get him to change his opinion on things--and also how much he respects scientific facts such as accident statistics.
Philippe Jespersen 5 years ago
Damn... I know it saves lives, but those seat belt bruises scares the s**t outta me! ๐ฑ
Aunt Messy 5 years ago
You'd rather die than have a boo boo on your torso for awhile?
Load More Replies... Jasmine Walker 5 years ago
Love the message that's it's sending. Are these touched up/fake/or are the scars emphasized? Not knocking the photo AT ALL but some of these are intense.
Aunt Messy 5 years ago
Have you ever seen a really bad accident? If you bothered to read the article or the comments, you'd know that these injuries were recreated based on photographs taken after the accident, and that this really is what these injuries look like. ...///... This is NOTHING compared to what happens to people who don't wear their seat belts.
Load More Replies... Miklรณs Nagy 5 years ago
I can see a strong correlation between tha number of tatoos and the autocrashes you have from this post...
TeeMarieTisMe 5 years ago
Maybe they are trying to show that even stereotypical "tattooed tough men" wear their seatbets? Just a thought.
Load More Replies... Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
There are only seldom accidents on the road. More often than not, "traffic crimes" would be a better word for what is happening. Driving too fast; under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or medications; with tires that are too worn; while being on the phone; while being tired or getting sleepy means that you do not accidentally kill someone, it is wilfully endangering other people's lives, and it means that you are just very lucky when nobody dies because of you.
Joyce Brazel 5 years ago
MY LEGS WERE HIT WITH THE COVER OF THE UNDER THE DASH AIR BAG, UNDER THE STEERING WHEEL. THEY WERE BLACK AND BLUE FROM THE SHIN TO THE ANKLE WITH HUGE SWOLLEN KNOTS ON THEM AND THEN I GOT SHARP RAZOR LIKE PAINS THAT JUST CAME OUT OF THE BLUE. IT LASTED OVER A YEAR. THEY ARE STILL SORE WHEN YOU TOUCH THE KNOTS. NO ONE TOLD ANY OF US ABOUT THE COVERS! J.E.B.
Lee from Phoenix 5 years ago
I've always worn seat belts and even installed them in my cars before they came standard from the factory. Seemed like a good idea for the way I drove when I was younger. But I think airbags suck. I have no interest in having a bomb go off in my face during a minor fender bender.
Felicia Dale 5 years ago
We need better seatbelts. Seriously. Bruising like this shouldn't be happening, or at least not nearly so badly. I always wear a seat belt. My dad was a former race car driver when he (and my mom) taught me to drive and that was the first lesson hammered home, and not to get in any car that didn't have them, either. I also always wear a helmet for horse back riding, and full coverage clothes no matter what the weather. I have fallen off of horse and bikes at speed and it was only the protective gear that saved me- and a great deal of luck.
Lillukka79 5 years ago
They should add a few pictures of similar accidents where they didn't wear a seatbelt. Just to show how much worse it would be.
Jennifer Erdossy 5 years ago
The campaign was targeted toward a male audience, who (it seems) think it unmanly to wear a seat belt.
Load More Replies... Margaret Nugent 5 years ago
My husband refuses to wear a seatbelt as he is a hackney driver and says and I know this to be true it makes him a prime target for a mugging.Passenger can grab them through the glass partition payment hatch and they can't get away because of the seatbelt.I still believe he should wear a seatbelt and it breaks my heart that he won't when driving his hackney taxi .looking at these photos proves my point to him but alas he still won't wear one ...
Gerry Higgins 5 years ago
Nothing to worry have seat belt laws for adults. It's Natural Selection. Those stupid enough to NOT wear a seat belt should not be allowed to weaken the herd with their stupidity. It's kinder to let them die off. Children though need car seat laws to protected from stupid parents.
923harvey 5 years ago
I have had two accidents where the seat belt caused major injuries in accidents that would have been minor if not for the damage by the belt. I stil Wear mine but I think itโs really 50/50.
diane a 5 years ago
If your seat belt caused a major injury - think what would have happened had you been a loose object in the vehicle.
Load More Replies... David Maziuk 5 years ago
well if they didn't wear their seatbelts, they wouldn't have those bruises. problem solved
diane a 5 years ago
It isnt fake as in to decieve people. It is a realistic recreation of their injuries for a safety campagne. Am sure they would be working from photographs taken shortly after the initial accidents.
Load More Replies... Rumade Clothing 5 years ago
The campaign was specifically directed at younger men as they are statistically the least likely to wear them (and the most likely to take risks while driving in general)
Load More Replies... Bored Phoenix 5 years ago
Tjler i think youโd feel the same way if you almost died.
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