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Wow sorry to hear about your son, hope everything turns out ok.

 

Sorry, it looks like your son is lucky to be alive.

That definitely will not buff out.

 

That looks like it was a bad one. Hopefully he'll be ok.

 

Good God!! I am very glad to hear your son is on the mend. That looks quite bad.

 

That tells you one thing, take his car away. If he can't put a seat belt on he should not be driving. In this case it saved his life, but 99.9% of the time it will kill you. He was in the 0.1%, he got off lucky.

 

I agree. It is very lucky that your son survived this crash, but honestly from the looks of the car, he might have been driving very irresponsibly. Especially with someone else's car.

 

Even though things seem real bad right now, your glass is actually more than half full.

Imagine if your son's injuries were much more severe and permanent, imagine if he had a friend or girlfriend with him at the time of the accident with even more severe injuries, imagine if he hit another car and other people were severely injured or killed, etc.

Any car can be replaced. Any accident where everyone involved fully recovers is, in a way, a blessing.

Best wishes to your son and you.

 

Sorry to hear man, I hope it all works out and your son gets better.

 

I agree about counting your blessings, and wish your son a speedy recovery. I also wouldn't get down too much on his mother (who may no longer be your wife, given your phrasing); i'm sure she is equally upset and perhaps feeling a bit guilty as well.
Let it go, and work for his fast and complete recovery.
Best to you and yours,

(Someone who was also pretty lucky at that age).

 

It also sounds like he is not giving you the full story.

 

I have an X Type and it is a pretty safe car, AWD, TC and like 9 airbags. Just imagine if this happened with him driving a Civic...

 

He was alone in the car, therefore the passenger side airbag(s) wouldn't have been deployed. Secondary sensors for the passenger airbags most prolly located in the the passenger seat..

Anyways, hope your son will have a speedy recovery.

Edit : Having said that,the impact of the rollovers should've deployed ALL (9) of 'em..(Not sure about the Jag Xtype, but no 'curtain' type airbags around the doorframe etc..?)

 

As a new parent, I am so relieved for you that your son made it through that. However, you absolutely need to speak to him about wearing a seatbelt. It is way better than a "50/50" chance of helping in an accident. Let me run you through a few scenarios.

Let's say you were going 25 MPH and hit a car in front of you (rearend). What is your face going to hit?? A steering wheel at 25MPH. Next time you are in your car, bring your face up to your steering wheel and tap your mouth on it. Now imagine "tapping" your mouth on it at 25MPH.

That's just one example.

If you say that it will help 50/50, please really think about if you can come up with ONE example of where a seatbelt won't prevent extra damage. Just one. I'll bet you can't. You are one click away from preventing a lot.

I had a friend who was killed in a car accident back my Junior year of highschool. We played football together and he was huge. 6''5" 275 and getting letters from every D-1 school in the country. He wasn't wearing his belt and died at the scene from massive head trauma. The other guy in the car was wearing his and walked away (literallly) without a scratch on him.

I haven't stopped thinking about him and haven't ever gone without a belt since.

 

That car has ABS so no "locked up the brakes" is possible.
Luckily he survived but use the incident as a lesson for future,send him to a driving school (Skip Barber,Bondurant both have teenage driving courses).
No seatbelts on,definitely high speed (too high for conditions and his nonexistent skills) tell you something about his lack of judgement.

 

Glad to hear he is doing ok.

S Type R is a very nice car.

 

Ask yourself when the last time you ever saw a professional driver without a seatbelt. NASCRAP, open wheel, SCCA (any class), F1, every last one cinches those belts as the FIRST thing they do. Do you really want to take the chane on the "type" of accident that an 18 year old with no experience is going to have? Hope he gets well soon, but MAKE him wear the seatbelt even if you don't.