I always wear my seatbelts in all my vehicles! Usually wear a helmet too..it has a spike on the top like ***** (hey would YOU carjack a guy wearing one??)

Seriously i think seatbelts are a great benefit.

DS

 

What more can you say that wasn't summed up by Fritzthecat?!?

Well, I'll try. I started wearing seatbelts in the late 60's when they were 'optional' equipment -- because I discovered that I could drive better without having to try to keep myself in the seat while jammin' gears.

'Figured that they wouldn't really help me much in the kind of crash that I'd likely end up in, but they just might help me AVOID one.

Later in life, I bet my kids $100 that they couldn't catch me not wearing my seatbelt. Daughter (now 27) and son (now 23) have yet to collect.



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Well, let's just say that I'm still here because of a seatbelt, TWICE.

Remember that thread a few months ago about the stupidest thing you've done in your truck? Well, I described how -- suffering from the "26 oz flu" -- I wrote off my '73 F-100 twice in the summer of '74. First time was into a tree. Bought it back from the insurance company and rebuilt it. Sheared off a hydro pole two months later on the same road.

Point is, both times I walked away totally unhurt because I was wearing my lap belt (no shoulder belts in those trucks). However, if I'd have hit people not wearing seatbelts, I'd have killed them for sure. Sure made me a believer!

Scariest thing is, there's still folks out there driving like I used to, before I smartened up.

 

I alway wear my seatbelt. I didn't used to but i got into an accident and went over the top of the airbag and almost through the windshield.

 

Never used to but ever since Princess Diana was killed, I started.

 

prior to a car accident that was my fault, I never wore a set belt..The gods must have known I was on a self distrct mission that night, because I was wearing mine and left to explian to to the police how I drove off the road into a bridge suport. This was ten years ago.
At work, I'm in and out of my truck a lot over short distances, so I don't wear it all the time, going to and from work I wear it.

wearing a seat belt dose not make you a good driver, or a bad driver, They do save lives, and some times they perserve organ doners...my point is police should target bad drivers instead of padding quotas with seat belt tickets in selective traffic inforcement.

 

Big NO here.

I have little confidence in a lap and shoulder belt system. If you simply apply the laws of physics; all the force is applied to a small percentage of the body by the belt and shoulder strap. With the inability to lay down in the seat before impact. I would either be ripped in half by the belt it's self or smashed by the roof and dash on two different occasions. Either way I would not be here.
If they really wanted me to be safe then they would implement a program to install a 5 point in every seating position, plus a roll cage in all existing vehicles o nthe road. Then force auto makers to install them as standard on current and future models.
Until then, it is simply a source of revenue. With bias backing that they force-fed to what they presume to be an uninformed uneducated public. However the belief that it is more likely to save your life or lives of your family thrives because of human heard mentality and the lack of individuals simply applying any logic to the situation.

I beg of all of you who "force everyone in your vehicle to wear your death straps" please, please, please… Do not make or let a pregnant women wear a seat belt in your vehicles. All studies have shown that it is more dangerous to both the mother and the baby. Because of the location of the lap belt and the force applied in even the slowest of crashes with the already stressed condition of the body during preganancy. There is no room for the mothers organs to move when compressed by the belt, so internal injuries to her are inevitable. Same token there is no where for the baby to go either, nor to insure what part of the baby the force is being applied to. Very well good be it's head.

 

My grandfather was in a rollover in his 83 f150. He wasn't wearing his seatbelt (he was a mail-man). He slid up over the steering wheel and the cab colapsed pinning him there. It broke 17 ribs and collapsed his lungs. He spent a few weeks in ICU and was never the same afterward.

Some kids I went to high school with were racing on gravel roads (not to smart to begin with) and weren't wearing seatbelts. Car rolled and 2 were ejected, 1 died. Car wasn't in that bad of shape and the one woulda lived if the seatbelt was on. So, biased study or not, more often the seatbelt will save you.

 

I have a very radical approach to driving safety. I assume that everyone that is sharing the road with me is a complete moron. I then pay attention to everything and try to guess the stupidest thing the vehicles I have contact with could do, and make plans to counter. My predictions are generally very accurate. If I'm wrong about a driver's intelligence and driving ability, then he isn't a threat to my safety.


I have to admit that I do not regularly wear a seat belt.

 

Every single time I get behind the wheel it goes on.

 

I always wear a seatbelt and any one that rides in my vehicles either wears one or walks…

I am not going to post links to the numerous data out there on the internet that proves seatbeats save lives but I will tell you from personal experience that they indeed do.

First, when I was about 20 years old I was racing a buddy down a curvy road in a 1969 Pontiac Grand Am, 455cid, one bad mother indeed. Anyway while doing about 70mph had a front tire blow out and rolled it. Granted it didn’t have the shoulder belt but it saved my life, a little bruised up, but walked away.

Second time was while doing some enduro racing on a local track. It is basically a street car race and can have no modifications. That includes having the stock seatbelts. Going down the straight doing about 60 – 70mph got run down into another car that was left sideways on the track. Needless to say I bent the crap out of the steering wheel but the stock seat belt held me in. Again a little bruised but walked away.

In 1987 my brother lost brakes in his companies work truck coming down a hill. This POS truck had no seatbelts in it and therefore my brother was not wearing one. He was doing about 45 – 55mph and came to a corner. The trucked flipped and threw him out smashing his head into the pavement. He had massive head trauma and died because of it.

You have one life, you make the choice. Wear a seatbelt and get some bruises or possibly have your head smashed into the pavement and see if you will walk away.

The argument about the pregnant women is not real relevant in my opinion. If she is wearing a seatbelt properly and is driving fast enough to cause harm to her baby because of the force of the seatbelt then I am willing to bet a big chunk of change if she were to not wear a seatbelt she will cause as much or more injury to the infant.

In any regards seatbelts saving lives is NOT propaganda, spin, human heard mentality, money maker, myth or any other naive logic.

I would ONLY support people having the choice to choose to wear seatbelts, and for that matter, motorcycles riders having the choice to wear helmets if those people who choose not to will sign a wavier so that the generally public, or tax payers, do not have to pay their medical bills and fund their life support equipment. That’s the main reason for the laws, because there are many people who want the freedom to choose but DON’T have the responsibility to accept the consequences of their choice…

If you don’t want to wear a seatbelt or helmet fine with me but I don’t want to support you or your family…

 

I wear mine while in any vehicle. Been in two serious accidents since June 15,2005. Had my seat belt on, and glad I did. In the last one, the driver of the Toyota Forerunner that crossed the centerline in front of me did not. She did not and they had to cut the roof off her vehicle to get her out since she ended up in the back seat in a heaping pile. This was after she rolled a few times.

 

99.9% of the time. The only reason I am still here is because of a seatbelt. Yes, it did dislocate my shoulder, but after rolling a RX-7 [hard to do, but I got it over, and this was in the 80's before the 'ricer craze"], I still walked away. I was sore, and since I ended up in a field of poison oak, I was miserable for a week, but I was still alive to be miserable.

While in college, one of our physics projects was to calculate the forces unleashed in a crash, and without going into the equations, the basics are still: Force=Mass X Acceleration, and man, what a large amout of force that was. I was benching over 400# back then [oh, for the good old days!] and figured out that anything much over 15mph, I could not stop myself, IF I was ready and prepared, and I had a good braced position.

As far as making it mandatory, it is here and it is in my truck. My truck, my rules. I even belt my dog in the car! [I do not want a 50# mutt flying at me in a accident!]

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Bowser

 

I wouldnt be here today if it wasnt for my seatbelt. At the age of 6 my family was hit with a head on collision with someone coming in the opposite direction at 45mph. I was wearing my selt belt wrong but none the less I was wearing it. I ruptured my intestines and suffered from internal bleeding. Anyone who doesnt wear a seatbelt is a fool..... Take it from a survivor.

 

Another thread dredged from the depths!!

I wear a seat belt every time I'm in a moving vehicle whether driving or riding!