Do you think ?
It's these freakin airbags that I hate. What good is a "safety" device that kills people.
That quotation safety device saved Sarah from serious injury one time. A 65mph solid deer hit did a number on the car. She had fallen asleep and I didn't realize she took her seatbelt off when she did.
The air bag hit me and I didn't even realize it. It was the seatbelt tensioner that left a nice big welt across my chest.
Now, since the belt tensioner did it's job for me, let's think about her flying forward into the dash and possibly into the windshield since she didn't have her belt on. The air bag kept her from doing so. We both walked away with minor injuries.
The issue isn't the safety devices. Very rarely is a death or injury associated with the device, the injury is usually associated with someone's failure to properly use the device. Sarah was damned lucky the air bags deployed properly.
Take a look at my former business partner. The seat belt in his truck is always buckled. Always. He sits on it. If he sees a cop coming he slips the shoulder belt over his shoulder while still sitting on the lap belt. I asked him what he's going to do if someone crosses the center stripe on him. "Well, that's what air bag are for." Yeah, okay, the shoulder strap will keep his upper half from flying forward, but the lack of waist strap means his *** is gonna slip on the seat, meaning the bag is going to hit him square in the head, not in the torso, like it's designed to do. And he'll blame the air bag (if he lives).
And this is a man who had a serious head injury in a motorcycle crash. He swears the helmet saved his life. Ironic.
The stupidity of it is, besides the improper use of the belt, is that he doesn't see that it takes as much time to go ahead and click the belt around him as it does to slip the belt over his shoulder.
But then again this is the same idiot who won't hook up his trailer lights, even though he's already hooked up the rest of the trailer and it takes a second to plug in the lights, because "he doesn't want to have to deal with the plug."
