We didn’t need seat belts in the seventies

@beermeplease you are incorrect! In the 1960s there were an average of 100 motor vehicle fatalities daily! You are crazy not giving credit to vehicle design, the building in of energy absorption, seat belts, air bags, and now automatic crash avoidance systems. As an emergency department physician, the more serious injuries and deaths were far more often when the occupants was unrestrained. When you read the victim was rejected for m the vehicle, you know they did not wear a seatbelt.

@samueltyler2 that's probably because there were no drunk driving laws back then, everybody drove drunk and don't tell me they didn't. everybody did up until the mid 80s i'm guessing

@beermeplease what is your point about that?

@NativePortlander1970 wow, so I made a typo, does that give you the right to insult me? Are you arguing with the science involved in producing safer vehicles now than decades ago? If so, get yourself educated before insulting others.

@samueltyler2 Airbags crush faces and blind people, seatbelts crush chests and break ribs, rrisking piercing hearts, lungs, and other vital organs, deal with it.

@samueltyler2 of those 100 daily deaths how many were caused by drunk drivers? we don't know the answer to that because i bet their bac was never tested. but i bet the number would be lower

@beermeplease some probably were, but that doesn't alter the facts. The data clearly shows that seatbelts and airbags, with modern auto body design, all work in harmony saving lives in auto crashes.