A recent tragic car accident in Fujian, China has left many people sighing with regret. A family of six from Huian's Jingfeng were driving home on the highway when a tyre burst caused their vehicle to crash into a barrier. The car was split in half, resulting in the immediate death of five passengers, including two children.
Careful netizens noticed that in the accident pictures, there were seatbelt clips inserted into the belt slots next to both the driver and front passenger seats. The unbuckled seatbelts were lying on the other side of the seats. We know that for most medium-to-high-end cars currently on sale, if the front seat occupants do not wear their seatbelts, the car will emit a "beeping" sound to remind the driver. These seatbelt clips, essentially alarm silencers, can eliminate the beeping sound once inserted.
Although the accident was triggered by a tyre blowout, from the pictures, it appears that while the car roof was torn off and the car frame was nearly disassembled, the deformation of the seats was not severe. One can imagine that if the passengers had worn their seatbelts at the time, they would not have been thrown out of the car and died from impact. The warning sounds painstakingly designed by car manufacturers to alert drivers about safety were deceived by such small clips. This item, costing only tens of yuan, created by some unscrupulous merchants, has become a killer that deceives oneself and harms lives.
It is no exaggeration to call seatbelts "life belts." During collisions, they protect passengers from colliding with the car's interior, windows, or other passengers. In vehicles equipped with airbags, passengers fixed by seatbelts can make contact with the deployed airbags in the correct posture, avoiding secondary injuries. When a vehicle undergoes high-speed rotation or rollover, seatbelts can also ensure that passengers are not ejected from the car. According to investigations by the U.S. Department of Transportation, using three-point seatbelts can reduce injury rates for drivers by 43% to 52%, and for front passengers by 37% to 45%. Without wearing seatbelts, even a collision at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour can lead to death.
Not to mention that using these immoral devices already violates the "Road Traffic Safety Law," but just considering the protection of one's own and one's family's lives, one should discard this self-deceptive device, cultivating the good habit of buckling up as soon as you get into a car. No one can predict whether danger will occur, but a good habit may save lives in critical moments.
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