Reply #71: I'm kind of torn on the subject [View All]

[SCDem]

I was wearing my seat belt when I was 8 years old in the middle seat window seat of a station wagon where as my brothers were not as they were in the back of the station wagon laying down. When the car hit the door in which I was sleeping resting my head on and I was the only one in the car (out of 6 people 4 wearing seat belts 2 not) to get hit, knocked unconcious, and in a coma for 2 months and still have scars on my face and neck after all these years.

I get sick of people when I tell them I was in a car accident they ask "Were you wearing a seat belt?" as if they already assumed I wasn't and that if I was I wouldn't have scars today. I was slumped over but tight in my seat belt while my head was split in two when my mother jumped over the front seat to the middle seat and held my head together with a pillow until the helicopter came. I am alive today not because of a seat belt but because of my mother.

Just my experience and 2 cents