10 Powerful Pictures Of Car Crash Survivors Who Want To Raise Awareness About Seatbelt Safety

Chilling portraits of the searing bruises that seatbelts might leave behind after a crash are being manifested and celebrated as survival badges of honor, showing the significance of belting up.

The powerful initiative is part of an NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) campaign in order to reduce the number of deaths on NZ roads. As they reported, 90 people die each year because they were not wearing their seatbelt, most of whom are young men in rural areas. The confronting portraits are of ten real-life crash survivors, whose post-crash injuries were recreated by the SFX make-up company PROFX.

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Image credits: ourproductionteam, NZTransportAgency

Liam Bethell

Kahutia Foster

Dion Perry

Dan Mason

Rick Haira

Dylan Chirnside

Willy Carberry

James Mcdonald

Will Giles

James Liberona-Feek

Check out some of the survivors’ hard-hitting and emotional videos below

Here is what people had to say – many shared their own stories: