10-04-2025, 12:23 AM
I am going to tell a little story that will make you want to have everyone in your vehicle wear their seat belt. I am in Colombia right now. You see kid heads hanging out of car windows everyday and it's almost a job to tell everyone in car to put their seat belts on. I just switched to a Volvo because my Mercedes Benz just got totaled.
You see, this big mouth; passionate with everything, too smart 19 year old cousin of my wife, took my CLA 45S, to pick up my wife from a medical appointment. Along the way, he picked up his girlfriend.
5kms in, he looses control of the car and hits a curb. She fries out of the front seat and you can guess what happened. All one can see with the car, is a brown tire and a broken side mirror. But underneath, it going to be expensive to repair therefore a total write-off. For the driver, not even as much as a bruise but for the girl, I don't know what say or think. A few months of dread pass and all I could do is go out and buy what I believe to be the safest vehicle on the road for my family and everyone else who end up in it. But vehicles can be safe until drivers.
PLEASE; if someone doesn't want a seat-belt, they can walk. You don't want to blame yourself for someone else's deeds.
You see, this big mouth; passionate with everything, too smart 19 year old cousin of my wife, took my CLA 45S, to pick up my wife from a medical appointment. Along the way, he picked up his girlfriend.
5kms in, he looses control of the car and hits a curb. She fries out of the front seat and you can guess what happened. All one can see with the car, is a brown tire and a broken side mirror. But underneath, it going to be expensive to repair therefore a total write-off. For the driver, not even as much as a bruise but for the girl, I don't know what say or think. A few months of dread pass and all I could do is go out and buy what I believe to be the safest vehicle on the road for my family and everyone else who end up in it. But vehicles can be safe until drivers.
PLEASE; if someone doesn't want a seat-belt, they can walk. You don't want to blame yourself for someone else's deeds.