Airbags and seatbelts...

As a matter of fact I have! I went thru 60 yrs on the planet and was never injured in a wreck, last year a drunk gal rear ended the vehicle I was in, I was in the passenger seat and had my seat belt on! When she hit she was going 65mph, we were just leaving a stop light that had just turned green and going very slow, the impact thru me forward and the seat belt caught me and then thru me back into the seat! I had 7 compressed vertebrae and the belt tore my rotator cuff at my shoulder. She had 50k insurance and just the back repair ate that up! There's no money left to repair my shoulder they want 65k for this? I've been suffering for over a year now while my attorneys try to get me the cash for this repair! tdemex

Hi Jodylee_04530, I do believe that they are effective, statistically, however as I am sure you have heard there are those cases where the seatbelt or airbag may have done more damage than good. That is not the case for me. From personal experience I have been in accidents involving various inanimate and unmoveable objects, while my car decided to see if it could move it (facetiously stated). All three times my airbag deployed and all three times, the conclusion was that I would have been more seriously injured had I not had a seatbelt on and did not have airbags in my car. The accidents did not involve anyone else (thank goodness). The very last one, I was hospitalized for 3 days. Nothing broken but from the airbag and my face colliding, I managed to blacken both eyes and had an egg size lump on my forehead. The injuries surely looked much much worse than they were. But I was lucky so the EMTs and the doctors tell me. So I am on the side of wearing seatbelts and having airbags in a vehicle (not that I am expecting any more accidents!)