Wear your seatbelts!

[codex57]

http://copywrite78.com/noseatbelt.avi

 

[epj3]

Always do and always will. Not stupid enough to go without it, even short trips. It kind of holds you into those body hugging seats!

 

[epj3]

I also dont fall asleep at the wheel (the engine keeps me awake )

 

[CosmosBlack]

What was he doing actually? Was he going backwards? [???1]

I have to wear belts as soon as I get in my seat, it's a habit.
Car rules apply to wife, daughter or passengers.
Amazingly, my daughter is adapting well! Everytime I turn around to check on her before I take off, she's buckled up! She'll grow up with that habit.

 

[ODDferkOUT]

To this day I still don't understand why people don't wear their seatbelts...

....I don't even think about it when I get in a car. Next thing I know I have it on, like a reflex or something.. heh.

 

[M_Six]

It nevers fails, every time I read of an accident where someone died, it always comes to the part about them not wearing seatbelts. The coach of the 1980 US Olympic hockey team died last year after falling asleep at the wheel and crashing. He wasn't wearing a seatbelt and probably would have lived if he had worn it.

 

[Ghost]

If FG > 7
and SG > 10
where FG = Forward G force
and SG = Side G force
and NSB = No seatbelt
then NSB = Disaster in any equation.

I always wear a seatbelt and carry a knife just in case I have to cut it. I'm going to get one of those emergency tools that have the blade and the window punch in case the car flips over.

I won’t move the car until everyone is wearing their seatbelt. When my friends get in the car, I always make them wear it. Actually they put it on before I say anything, because most of them fight for the back seat anyway. They say my driving scares them. I have no idea what they are talking about, “I’m a professional”[driving2] (garage attendant in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off).

 

[epj3]

Same here Ghost, if someone says they dont wear it when they drive, I tell them to get out and drive themselves.

 

[xLibelle]

i dont wear mine that often. i mean, i almost always do in my windstar, but only because ford has this god aweful alarm that WONT go away. and i wear it in higher risk conditions when driving my bimmer. i know the consequences and yet still dont care enough to make that simple effort.

my uncle is paralized waist down because he wore a seatbelt. the three others in the car were not and walked away from the accident.

 

[MyHarley]

i dont wear mine that often. i know the consequences and yet still dont care enough to make that simple effort.

But I care sweetie , please wear your seabelt...........[:X] ...........

 

[CosmosBlack]

my uncle is paralized waist down because he wore a seatbelt. the three others in the car were not and walked away from the accident.

Maybe your uncle might not be alive today if he had not had his seatbelt on then...?

 

[Ghost]

I had two very close friends of mine die before the age of twenty-one because they didn’t wear their seatbelt. You and the people you know should consider themselves LUCKY nothing has happened so far. Airbags will protect you from simple collisions, but if you’re thrown from the vehicle or as codex provided, thrown around because of a lack of a seatbelt there is more of a chance that you will be severely injured. I’m behind Harley, WEAR YOUR SEATBELT PLEASE, I like the insight you provide to the forum. Cosmos is right, things could always be worse.

As defined by Merriam-Webster

Accident: 1 a : an unforeseen and unplanned event or circumstance b : lack of intention or necessity : CHANCE <met by accident rather than by design>
2 a : an unfortunate event resulting especially from carelessness or ignorance b : an unexpected and medically important bodily event especially when injurious <a cerebrovascular accident> c : an unexpected happening causing loss or injury which is not due to any fault or misconduct on the part of the person injured but for which legal relief may be sought.

 

[epj3]

i dont wear mine that often. i mean, i almost always do in my windstar, but only because ford has this god aweful alarm that WONT go away. and i wear it in higher risk conditions when driving my bimmer. i know the consequences and yet still dont care enough to make that simple effort.

my uncle is paralized waist down because he wore a seatbelt. the three others in the car were not and walked away from the accident.

If the accident was bad enough to throw him into that little 2" wide belt, then imagine how hard he would have hit the dash!!

 

[Abdoman]

The video - been there done that, except I had a seatbelt on and walked away. The door popped open when the car rolled, so if I didn't have my seatbelt on, I'm not sure I would have survived.

 

[epj3]

It's actually quite hard to believe how many people do not wear their seatbelts. You think more people would wear it than don't, but 2 years ago for drivers ed, we had to take 30 minutes at an intersection and count how many people had their seatbelts on and off. The number of people with their seatbelts on was way less than the number with no seatbelt.

Are these people crazy? I would never in my life think of not wearing my seatbelt. That dash, steeringwheel, and windshield are much more solid than my body as a whole. What if you get t-boned from the passenger side and you arent wearing your seatbelt? The car will move over but YOU will not. You'll end up being thrown to the passenger seat and being hit full force by the side of the car, breaking your neck, ribs, arm, leg, etc. With a seatbelt? You might get some very serious whiplash, but that goes away after a few days, unlike breaking bones when you have to deal with it for 2+ months.

 

[mrferg]

I do not even start my car if someone in my car isn't wearing their seatbelt.

 

[tsquared]

I used to volunteer as a First Responder (a medic). I have never seen anyone who was properly seat belted and who has been involved in a motor vehicle accident that was seriously injured. Depending on the severity of accident, belted occupants suffered at most soft tissue injuries such as neck and back injuries this includes one guy who was trapped in his car and we had to cut out. He would have walked away if we had let him. Those who were not wearing seatbelts and were involved in serious accidents usually had to be carry out of the wreck and transported to the local ER….and in one case the morgue.

I've also walked away from a rollover accident (rolled 5 times, airborn for 73 feet) when the other passengers were critically injured because they were not buckled up. I was the front seat passenger, no airbags just a seat belt.

The one thing that pisses me off more than anything else in this world is seeing idiots driving around without there seatbelts. Especially if they have unbelted kids in the car. Why does this piss me off…..because I’m one of the guys who has to clean up the mess after they wreck out and its really hard to have much sympothy for someone who could have avoided serious injury if they had just taken 5 seconds and buckled up.

my 2 cents

 

[epj3]

To people who do NOT wear their seatbelts

 

[CosmosBlack]

let's hope this thread could change the views of some stubborn non-belt drivers,
and maybe someday could save their lives. Remember, you might only have one chance!
You want to take that one chance well prepared with no regrets.

 

[Tweet227]

A seatbelt saved my life 3 years ago. I don't even think about not wearing it. It is automatic and everyone who gets in my car has to wear one.