Wear a seat belt

CThurmond

CThurmond

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I was driving to deleiver tires to a buddy of mine when I.lost control.of my xj , I over corrected . The jeep rolled 4 to 6 times and threw me away from.jeep by 30 or 40 feet

I broke my hip , I am soooooo lucky its unbelievable I am able to post this .


I had no belt on.

Learn from my luck and pain please buckle up.

I'll post pics later of my heep
 
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Wow man, Speedy recovery, I got called out on here once for not wearing my belt, I was just jogging the Wrangler between obstacles, but he was right. Lapbelts are an easy way to go and I honestly prefer 5 points for anything I take off road.
 
My BIL is paralyzed from a rollover and not wearing his seatbelt. Sad thing is I had to remind my wife tonight to put hers on as we pulled out of the driveway. Praying for a speedy recovery for you.
 
Wow, glad you're ok.

Honestly, the ONE time in the past 5+ years that I didn't wear my seat belt, I passed a Trooper about 3 miles from my house that promptly turned around and gave me a $175 ticket. You win some, you lose some.
 
When I was a kid, my parents were pretty diligent about seatbelts.
They started this game that we always played.
Every time we got in the car, the last person to click their belt is "the green pig", and has to oink 2 times.
As a kid, its funny. As a teenager, its embarrassing as hell.
But I ALWAYS wear a belt now, click that sucker as soon and quickly as I get in the car. Its instinctive. I feel weird not wearing one.

Now we do it w/ my kids.

Good luck w/ the recovery, hopefully others will learn.
 
Yikes! Glad you're alive.

Do you remember anything about being thrown out? Was it right away,or after a roll or two? ( you dont have to answer this, I'm just curious) I was in a high speed, multiple roll over in high school, with no seat belt and I remember every hit. I even remember floating in the air as the car spun around me. Very surreal.

We rolled a 76 T/A at 100 mph. Witness say we rolled like a can and they could'nt count the rotations, but it was more than 7 times. I was in the back seat and when the car stopped rolling, I had ended up laying on the under belly of the dash with the floor board just above my head. The car was upside down.

I did NOT even have a scratch on me!
 
Man, glad to hear you made it out relatively ok. You just got your wake up there.

A good friend I grew up with got killed a few years back, rolled his Isuzu and got crushed under it, no seatbelt. Very sad day, we went way back and our moms went back even further.

I always wear my seatbelt. Only time I don't is when I'm moving my truck from the shop 100' up to the house, and even then it feels weird when I don't do it, and sometimes I do it just out of instinct.
 
My dad spent a month in a coma at age 17 and a year without use of his left side after being ejected from a cj5. Consider yourself lucky, hopefully you wear a seatbelt from now on. I'm always amazed how well factory XJ's do in rolls.
 
novacayne75 said:
Glad to hear that you will live to see another day and I hope for a good recovery so yea ill bet you will have your seatbelt and swaybar on from now on.

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The sway bar is another very important thing I believe that cause this as well Ty for adding that , as for Dylan

I was concious for it all it went end over end over and then sideways tossed me above the jeep way past the jeep ( thank God) , I watched the jeep tumble a few more times before I hit the ground , still concious. Called 911 and laid there maybe 10 minutes


I was only doin 35 mph I can't imagin 100 mph


Ty all for your wishes.
 
Yet at 35 mph your crash was probably more violent, as far as big impacts go. In our crash, the car never really left the ground hardly.
Which is why we are all still alive.

Big difference in rolling like a pepsi can v/s flipping endo like you did.

The crazy part is, there were 4 of us in the car, and the only one wearing a seatbelt was the only one that was hurt. He was in the front passenger seat and his hand and arm got mangled pretty good.

I have pics. from the newspaper somewhere in a scrapbook.
 
That's crazy man. Kind of thing you always thing would never happen to you. God was looking out for you, glad your alive.
 
Dylan W. said:
The crazy part is, there were 4 of us in the car, and the only one wearing a seatbelt was the only one that was hurt. He was in the front passenger seat and his hand and arm got mangled pretty good.
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Back in high school four of my friends were in an S-10 Blazer that got in a pretty bad t-bone wreck that ended with them smashed into a telephone pole after impact. Only one of them was wearing a seatbelt and he got hurt the worst because the other three smashed into him during the colision. :lol:
 
Glad your alive to tell and able! Crazy how quick it happens.

I don't wear my seatbelt near as often as I should... I suppose its because I got in an accident years ago and it got stuck and made life difficult.

I suppose I will start wearing it again.
 
Probably more stories of seat belts save lives than not, But I can think of a few accidents that I know of( family members,friends, and news stories) where the person only lived because they were NOT wearing the belt.

In the end, I guess it boils down to It's the Law...and I don't want a ticket!

We lost a good friend a few years back. He was a damn racecar driver..he drove his Harley Edition Ford 350 into a ditch at 50 mph just trying to avoid a dog. No big deal. He had room to ease back onto the road..EXCEPT when he hit a small slope(not culvert) in a driveway, he flew out of his seat and lost touch with the steering wheel, according to my best friend in the passenger seat. The truck then veered,out of control and rolled over one time. Chris was found 50 ft away dead.

If he'd had his seatbelt on, he would never have lost his grip on the wheel, much less been ejected.

I guess when it's your time, it's your time.
 
I use to desert race i rolled a trophy truck 18 times at 120-150 i was conseaus for all of it the feeling is a feeling i dont wish on anyone its crazy....

I am also a vol firefighter / emt and in countless accidents id say 90% of the time the seat belt saved the occoupant ..



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offroad cowboy said:
I use to desert race i rolled a trophy truck 18 times at 120-150 i was conseaus for all of it the feeling is a feeling i dont wish on anyone its crazy....

I am also a vol firefighter / emt and in countless accidents id say 90% of the time the seat belt saved the occoupant ..



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It's crazy - the amount of people who believe a seatbelt 'hurts' their chances. I'm sure a few crash scene pics of the effects of being ejected would help that cause.
 
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