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Originally Posted by tturedraider
It’s been almost 45 years and I’m still going to get teary eyed just typing this. When I was in high school one of my friends, who was an amazingly talented singer, was killed right before graduation when she was thrown in a rollover accident and the car rolled over her. Virtually our entire high school came to her funeral and the church was literally standing room only. I’ve always been a seat belt wearer, but for more than a decade after that I had a personalized license plate that said “BUCL UP”. My car doesn’t move until everyone, front and back, is buckled up.
At the end of the funeral they played a recording of her singing the hymn “Lord, I’m Coming Home” and it was beyond emotional.
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Sad.
More like 60 years ago I was with my Dad and we came upon an accident scene. A car with 3 young men in it left the highway and hit a very large -- and solid -- tree. All 3 men were ejected from the car. (The car was old enough -- pre WWII -- that it probably didn't have seat belts.)
I watched as a coroner checked each of the young men and found each one dead. In one case the coroner pressed down on the chest of one of the accident victims and the chest moved in a very unnatural way.
When seat belts became available I always put it on.
More recently -- back in 2000-2003 -- when I lived just east of KC MO there was a road in I believe Independence MO which had some very pronounced hills. The hills weren't high but pretty abrupt.
Some drivers liked to take this section of road at speed and get some air from the hills.
One night a driver took a hill with too much speed and the car came down hard and rolled. A young woman -- high school age -- was ejected. She was injured but alive. But a following car didn't see her in the road and ran over her and killed her.
It wasn't long after this the road was redone at least where the couple of hills were and the hills flattened.