C3PX said:
ferris209 said:
nothing mysterious or supernatural, just not common. I picked a guys head up from the ground. Just his head, that was all. Had been severed in an auto accident and the weirdest thing is that it was severed just perfect, like it was intentional. He was looking up at me. Weird.
Decapitation due to the head going through the windshield in an unrestrained auto collision, correct? It is fairly common place for unrestrained individuals to wind up with severed heads right? Just not the perfect severing as you described? Or is the whole thing rather uncommon?
My friend has a theory that seatbelts are not necessary and don't really save that many lives and are just as likely to make matters worse in the event of a wreck. I told her (she was driving during this conversation) that if we had a wreck she'd end up losing a head while I'd walk away unscathed thanks to my seat belt and she laughed at me about the possibility of decapitation via windshield. This made me doubt my belief in the frequency of actual decapitations in auto crashes. In her profession she deals with car crash victims on a near daily basis, but typically she is dealing with the ones who haven't stopped breathing yet.
But, I figure Ferris can set me straight on this one, and add/take away my arguments validity.
Never ever seen a seatbelt decapitate or hurt anyone, total myth. Seen lots of people dead because they weren't wearing their belt. Never had to say, "You were lucky you didn't have your seatbelt on!".
Most of the decapitations I've seen were from people being sated in their car and something penetrating the vehicle at the rihts spot, or being ejected and then hitting other objects just right to slice the head off. I've seen bodies ejected 300 feet from the car before. Even had one where we worked up a fatality collision and thought there was just one guy there, turns out his buddy had been ejected over some trees and landed 200 feet away. Didn't realize it unil we delivered the death notice to his wife who asked where Johnny was, had to go scour the area and found him.
The one I'm talking about here was odd because it was a perfect cut, like it was done intentionaly. Rare to see those. This one happened when a guy was sitting in his drivers seat of a suburban and had turned his head, he didn't see the large excavator on a flat bed truck trailer coming at him. The excavators tracks were hanging over the side of the flat bed and the guy got too close, lopped his head off and killed his 11 year old son who was seated behind him. His wife and other kid survived with bad injuries. The suburban looked like it had been opened up with a can opener.