ALWAYS wear your Seatbelt! Even in your driveway.
How many times have you just jumped in to do a really short test drive and not worn the seatbelt? Well, I didn't do that, but I forgot my belt non the less for a short trip up my driveway and broke my neck.
Soo.... I screwed up big time, forgot my belt, just once too. I was winching and rigging pulleys all day for dragging logs to build my new bridge up to our cabin and was in and out of the Jeep many times (even had the door off for this) without moving it so wasn't using the seatbelt and I messed up the floor mat it would seem.
I then finished up, had a couple fast beer and went out the driveway to see the neighbour and forgot to belt up.... I Always wear a belt...
I gave it a shot of gas in 1st on a nice corner, just because it is a fun corner and the gas pedal stuck under the floor mat, spun me sideways into the bank head first faster than I could blink and tossed me out head first through the closed passenger side door. Snapped my neck in two places they say, the worst is an unsupported break at C1-C2 or where the skull hooks on. The doctor said one more head movement and I would have been a quadriplegic, two movements, dead.
Nasty stuff, I am in a halo frame for the next three months. The good part is I can move and feel almost everything like normal.
I was really lucky and had a cell phone in the Jeep where had carefully crawled back to. I figured out my neck was hurt bad really fast so held it really still while waiting for help.
How many times have you just jumped in to do a really short test drive and not worn the seatbelt? Well, I didn't do that, but I forgot my belt non the less for a short trip up my driveway and broke my neck.
Soo.... I screwed up big time, forgot my belt, just once too. I was winching and rigging pulleys all day for dragging logs to build my new bridge up to our cabin and was in and out of the Jeep many times (even had the door off for this) without moving it so wasn't using the seatbelt and I messed up the floor mat it would seem.
I then finished up, had a couple fast beer and went out the driveway to see the neighbour and forgot to belt up.... I Always wear a belt...
I gave it a shot of gas in 1st on a nice corner, just because it is a fun corner and the gas pedal stuck under the floor mat, spun me sideways into the bank head first faster than I could blink and tossed me out head first through the closed passenger side door. Snapped my neck in two places they say, the worst is an unsupported break at C1-C2 or where the skull hooks on. The doctor said one more head movement and I would have been a quadriplegic, two movements, dead.
Nasty stuff, I am in a halo frame for the next three months. The good part is I can move and feel almost everything like normal.
I was really lucky and had a cell phone in the Jeep where had carefully crawled back to. I figured out my neck was hurt bad really fast so held it really still while waiting for help.
