10+ Car Crash Survivors Pose For Shocking Seatbelt Safety Awareness Project

Sweden's Volvo led this initiative, and the world soon followed suit, leading not only to have the option, but also pushing for legislation that would make seatbelt use a mandatory thing.

According to WHO, wearing a seatbelt can reduce the risk of vehicular fatality by 40-50% for front seat passengers, and up to 75% for back seat passengers!

Each photograph features a victim of a motor vehicle accident, and tells their story of violence and survival. The photographs were made possible by PROFX, a company that specializes in SFX make-up.

"Yeah I remember the car crash, man. I remember um... Everything was kind of all upside down. The car was pretty much just wrecked. Yeah, there's 86, 400 seconds in a day, man. And sh** I nearly lost all of them."

"I was T-boned by a truck on my left-hand side, 200 meters from my house. I broke my back in three places — all my ribs on my left hand side, five of them on my right hand side. I spent 10 days in a coma."

"I basically woke up, um, from an induced coma with all my limbs broken. I'd had brain injury, my internal organs had been damaged. Had I not been wearing a seatbelt I would've gone through the windscreen."

"I can remember the sound of the window smashing, the metal crunching. the seatbelt was the first thing I undone, and it was then I realized it pretty much saved my life."

"I remember waking up with sort of that movie moment. Where someone says to you, you know, 'hey, you've been in a car accident.' I didn't really understand the fact that I was seriously injured. Something like wearing your seatbelt stopped me from going through the windscreen."

"I went straight into the oncoming car at 100k head-on. Looking at it, I should've been more messed up than what I was. Honestly really a miracle that I'm alive. The seatbelt is the reason."

"I had to learn how to walk and talk again. My brain had a reaction to being hit. My seatbelt was the only thing protecting me — I'm still here."

"I know for a fact that my brain injury would’ve been a whole lot worse if I wasn’t buckled up. Do the most simple task it might save your life like it saved mine."

"I was speechless when I got through, once I'd seen the photos of it. The main reason I survived was, you know, a seatbelt."

"It was when I was lying in the hospital, the day after a plate and six screws were put into my left arm, after my nose had been stitched back together. How big it really was, and what had really happened. And that I was alive."

"If I wasn't wearing my seatbelt I could've got way more messed up. Way more messed up. Yeah. I am still here to tell the story."

You can watch the interview clips here.