I don’t remember the hullabaloo about cars first having seatbelts as much as the enormous uproar about mandatory WEARING of seat belts that continues to this day. In the mid-’70s, one of neighbors, a very nice lady, was in a low-speed head-on collision and went through the windshield of her car, slicing off her face: not wearing a seatbelt, and there was a closed casket at her wake.
I don’t remember the hullabaloo about cars first having seatbelts as much as the enormous uproar about mandatory WEARING of seat belts that continues to this day. In the mid-’70s, one of neighbors, a very nice lady, was in a low-speed head-on collision and went through the windshield of her car, slicing off her face: not wearing a seatbelt, and there was a closed casket at her wake.