We all learn early on from our nagging parents that driving stupid is well... stupid. Most kids are brought up to instinctively secure their seat-belt, I seriously condone this 200%. If you aren't teaching your kid to wear a belt, then I pity your child and your stupidity as a parent. The whole purpose of this post is to bring to your attention of the obvious. Cheap Thrills are not worth your life.
I've known several friends over the years who've been killed at the wheels of their vehicles because a mixture of stupidity and cheap thrills. Needless to say I don't feel recentful for their death or bitter, because they were great people that just didn't choose the right paths. Two years ago a friend of mine was killed on his way to work. What actually happened has been inconclusive, someone has said that he was drag racing (he had Firebird and loved to do this, on the track and off) and another story says that he was rushing to get into work.
Either way or whatever the reason resulted in his death. They say he took the turn too fast and another says he hit a sheet of black ice. Seeing those skid marks today say the story. He took the turn too fast, lost control and struck a tree. He was thrown from his vehicle onto the asphalt. A lady saw the accident (but gave no details) stayed at his side as she called the ambulance. He slipped away on the asphalt, was revived, and was marked deceased on his way to the hospital.
The point of this is simple. A seatbelt could have saved his life, I say could and not would because seatbelts don't always save people. But the sheer fact he was launched from his vehicle shows that had he worn one, he may be here today, joking and talking like you and I. Sadly his mother also lost her husband a week after her Son's death. Christmas is no longer a month she sees happyness in. All she sees is death and pain.
With that being said. I cannot stress enough to you folks out there, to wear your damned seat-belt. Let it be a 'maybe' instead of "No" let the seat-belt give you the potiental of saving your life rather than not wearing one and know you will perish.
Life is too short for cheap thrills.
Those of you who are teen drivers, avoid driving with friends. I know they tell you to carpool, however, we all get a little 'frisky' behind the wheel with friends while they laugh, joke, and poke fun with each other. That being said, it shows that most teen drivers along with drunk drivers are the major causes of deaths in motor vehicle accidents. That being said, be smart, not stupid.
Don't kill someone on your way home.
