You would think that by the year 2012, some six decades since Nash (in 1949) and Ford (in 1955) offered seat belts as an option, and 54 years after Saab first added the feature as standard in 1958, people would have learned that seat belts are there for their own safety and not for decoration purposes.
Try telling that to the driver of the black VAZ 21099 (some may also know it as the Lada Samara in certain markets) that was involved in a scary accident in Russia.
The Samara was crossing through a road when another driver in a silver Lada 112 liftback slammed into it from the westbound lane sending the car into a 270-degree turn.
The driver of the black sedan wasn’t wearing his seatbelt and was thrown out of the car. Out of pure luck, the man wasn’t hurt seriously and was able to get up and walk away from the crash.
Here’s hoping that he learned a valuable lesson from this incident…
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