The safest place to sit when travelling

When people go on trips or about to embark on one, we find ourselves in a myriad of thoughts, thoughts like; where is the safest seat in a vehicle?, I should sit very close to the door, should anything happen I would jump right out, I should sit behind the driver because he would most likely protect himself and I would also partake from it, I should sit beside the driver so if he hits the sack or I notice any imminent danger I could avert it either by tapping him or hitting the breaks, and many more thoughts like that.

safe seat

It is only very human to act out of impulse or fear especially when travelling is involved. Where I come from, if there were any “safe seat” at all in a vehicle, that seat most definitely gonna cost more- if the bus fare for a road trip costs $2, then that supposed “safe sit” sure gonna cost double, after all staying alive is most important, an average Nigerian will tell you “before I consider death at all, I must be at least 85 years old”. There is no telling how far one would go to stay alive.

 We see people reading the news these days and stumbling upon a headline stating that there was an accident somewhere and there was just one survivor, the first question they pop is “where did that survivor sit?”

THE “SAFE SEAT”

The safe seat could be anywhere

It is better to pick your seat based on whether you prefer a view or whether or not you have got easy access to alighting at the next stop, rather than looking for a safe seat anywhere because there isn’t.

For what it’s worth, the likelihood of survival from an accident is relative to the type of impact and condition.