re: #80 ckkatz

I guess, as the old saying goes, ‘You can lead a father to an inherited truck, but you can’t make him drive it’. Or something like that.

And ouch on the collision! I trust that you were not badly hurt. As I recall, seatbelts were in most vehicles by 1991.

It was a 4-car collision; my truck was the first hit, then we pushed the lady in front of us into the ditch across the road, and the minivan at the front spun into a guardrail a couple hundred yards down the road. The worst injury was a boy who was thrown from the van with no seat belt, with a broken leg; I had severe whiplash, some lacerations from broken glass, and a gash on my nose from faceplanting the steering wheel, but everybody else was fine. The truck driver was adjusting his radio and not paying attention; I saw him coming, which probably contributed to my whiplash/soreness, and has given me a bit of PTSD when it comes to oncoming drivers in my mirror.