Good for you and your soapbox. Many years ago when I was in high school in the States a boy and girl were driving in the wintertime when the snow was thick on the ground. The boy was driving and the girl was in the passenger seat. They were driving too fast and slid into a tree at speed. Neither was wearing a seat belt and both went through the windshield. The boy was paralyzed from the waist down and the girl lost a leg.

This happened around Christmas time when they were both in 12th grade. It was very shocking and upsetting. The following summer both graduated from high school. The girl had an artificial leg and was able to walk to the podium to collect her diploma. The boy remains in a wheelchair.

However, what they both did frequently over the following few years was to visit every school in the city and tell the kids what had happened to them and why and to urge kids to wear seatbelts. They did not want what happened to them to happen to anyone else.

I can tell you that it made quite an impression on me and I have worn a seatbelt ever since.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. Mahatma Gandhi