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Originally Posted by djmm
Did he die
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Yes. He was thrown free of the vehicle because he wasn't wearing his seat belt. Sure, that car is pretty mangled, but if he had remained in his seat, he would have had more of a chance of survival among the airbags than flying free through the air and impacting something hard.
I told this story in that street racing thread. Once when I was in television I covered a single car accident involving a brand new Mustang being driven by a college student. The car had gone off the road and ended up rolling over gently onto its side in the grass. By the time I got there it was back on its wheels. It had a big dent in the door and was a little scraped up on that side, but otherwise the car was in amazingly good shape. I'm pretty sure you could have driven it home.
You could have, but not the driver. That big dent in the door was caused by his head. When the car tilted gently over, it dumped him face first into the ground, where his head somehow ended up under the car.
Because he wasn't wearing a seat belt.
OP may be a troll as Tcoat thinks. If not, I'm sure he's rolling his eyes because he didn't want a lecture. I don't really care. I covered way too many wrecks where the driver and/or passengers would have survived had they been wearing seat belts. I covered one where an entire family of five (two adults, three kids) was ejected from a Geo Tracker during a rollover. They ended up all over the interstate. I had shots of blood-soaked stuffed animals, I kid you not. Only the mother survived.
Wear your fucking seat belt.