This one is both funny and tragic.

Ivan Segedin had a thing about wearing a seat belt when he was driving; quite a big thing actually - he was fined 32 times between February 2003 and July 2007 for not wearing one. To get the traffic cops off his back, he mocked up a pretend seatbelt - a long strap had been knotted above the seatbelt on the driver's side, providing a belt to simply sit over his shoulder and thus fool observers that he was safely strapped in to his vehicle.

He found out the hard way that it didn't work. Segedin was killed in July last year when his car crossed the road and collided head-on with an oncoming vehicle. It is supreme irony that wearing a seat belt may well have saved his life - his fatal injuries were caused when he was thrown forward on to the steering wheel in a low-impact crash.

Mostly, you live and learn. Unfortunately for poor old Ivan, he died because he refused to learn. Ah well...

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