@CalamityCallout - the kind of bandit that doesn't have a good getaway plan, and needs to avoid capture. It probably doesn't take much life force anyway.
I'm sure someone's already mentioned it, but the spring suspension for the carriage appears to be lacking the other crucial part of such things, namely a damper (shock absorber). With just a spring they'll be bouncing all over dodge and it'd probably be worse than not having it at all.
Happy they didn't pull the old reliable "omg you gave her a ring and it just so happened to end up on the ring finger, now you have to marry her or FUCKING DIE"