@JazzyTXMom We didn’t all survive.
General George Patton, of various fame in World War II, was killed not by enemy fire, but by a car crash:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton#Accident_and_death
^Lawrence of Arabia died in a motorcycle accident.
I’m old enough to remember squeezing into the back slot of a VW, and the perfectly child-sized sofas in the back of the station wagon. My parents were pretty early adopters of safety stuff, though. We had a fabulous Checker cab as the family car, and the jump seats in the back were a blast, but we were almost never allowed to use them.
I hated wearing my seatbelt, and my mom did the whole “I’m stopping this car!!” when I tried to sneak it off. She did such a good job instilling the habit that I can’t get comfortable in a parked car without the seatbelt. I don’t even unbuckle at Sonic!