I really dislike wearing my seatbelt. I always feel as though it is choking me and is uncomfortable. I have learned how to ignore the warning light in one of our cars, but in our SUV, I have to put it on because of the annoying dinging. Yesterday, I leanrned some new things about the accident. Scilla said that she remembers getting up early and going to get her hair braided, she remembers getting into the car and feeling a little tired, but that is it. She remembers nothing else about the accident or what happened after getting in the car.
We do know that she was NOT wearing her seatbelt, which is out the norm for her, because their bmw annoys the heck out of you when don't, but she was not driving the bmw, she was driving her daughter's volvo. (I think if she was driving the bmw, which is a 2009 and has all this new technology, that her injuries may not have been as severe and that the car may have even shut down or something along those lines).
We also learned that during the accident, the car cut across traffic to the other side of the road and went down an approx. 40 foot embankment before hitting a tree. I am glad that no other drivers or cars were involved. Below are a couple of pictures of the car and from the pictures, which I got from Greg, it appears that most of the damage to the car was on the passenger side and I think that HAD SHE BEEN WEARING HER SEATBELT, her injuries would not have been as severe and that she would have walked from this accident with little or very few injuries.
front headlight/fender on driver side
Interior look from driver side
Another interior look, center console detached
this photo and the one to follow is of the passenger rear side of the car
Wearing seatbelts not only saves lives, but it prevents life changing injuries. Had Scilla been wearing her seatbelt, her injuries would not have been as severe.
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