Do you wear a Seatbelt?~Why or why not~

Do you wear a seat belt?

  • Do you wear a seat belt?

    Votes: 153 90.5%

  • Do you not wear a seat belt?

    Votes: 16 9.5%
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To help pass the time on the road, I have been looking at drivers/passangers in cars next to me if they are wearing seatbelts, It is interesting to see the difference between neighborhoods and ethnic backrounds to see who's got them on, \
Granted where I live it is the law to wear one,
And I do.
About 20 years ago I was driving a VW beetle and was going about 40 MPH and another car, (Cutlass Calas) 4 door went through a red light in a blind intersection and I broadsided them, They were going fast enough to slide sideways and then flip their car on a 4" curb, I was wearing my seatbelt and walked away with a couple of stitches above my eye, (wing window frame) and two sore knees from the underside of the steel dash.
The other cars driver was in the hospital for a couple of days with internal injuries (no seat belt)
The 72 Beetle was totaled as well as the much heavier Cutlass.
I was glad I was wearing a seatbelt then and still wear one all the time while driving now.
What about you and your loved ones???
PS, My finding show that when driving near/in the lesser neighborhoods of Philadelphia PA, About 25% dont wear them.
Peter
trying to edit to
Yes I do wear one\
No I do not wear one/
Cant figure out how to.
Hope you know what I mean
 
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It was part of our regimen on the job (I worked for the world's largest package delivery corporation and in the shop there) that if the wheels rolled on the pavement at all, you better have your seat belt on. Safety managers were always spying on us for noncompliance. And I mean if you moved a vehicle two feet in a service bay you had to have it on. First thing I now do when getting into a car. Conditioning.
 
I wear the lap belt because I think it's a good idea. I wear the shoulder strap because I'll get a ticket if I don't.
 
I figure the odds of an accident where the seat belt is a liablility is much less then the odds of an accident where the seat belt helps. Of course getting a ticket for not wearing one certainly helps too. I grew up not wearing them, but started one day (I don't really remember why) and have done it since.
 
My Dad Bought a new '66 F100 when I was a kid.and shortly after put his own seatbelts in.So ever since there have been seatbelts I've been wearing them.I feel naked without.
Thanks Dad. You saved my life more than once.
Dad's almost 80 now and still drives that truck today.
 
Oh yeah, nearly all the time.

I'm a Jeeper. They roll over and other bad things. We'd been wearing them even before we bought the first jeep, but that settled it. Once you start, or see what happens to folks even in a low speed roll, you become a true believer.

There is an exception I make. When we're working with a jeep, and climbing in and out constantly, as in stretching fence, or pulling logs around, sometimes I don't. Its just too much trouble when I'm moving the thing 5 or 10 feet on flat ground. That's pretty much a habit I've gotten into and so have my other buddies I work/play with.
 
We have an uncle who won't put it on. We won't move the vehicle until he does. When he is in the back seat, we tell him we don't want to be killed by his 280-pound body crushing us to death in the front seat.

PS - my husband's mother was killed in a car accident when the vehicle she, her cousin, and a friend were in that was hit by a drunk driver in 1955. His mother was found under the front seat. My husband was 4 months old at the time.
 
I was a Highway Patrolman for 10 years. Nuff sed.
 
Better part of 20 years doing X-rays in a trauma hospital...if a car doesn't have seat belts, I won't ride in it. Never in a moving car/truck without one on.
 
:) At a time in my life I drove a fork lift at
work. They would only go 7-1/2 MPH. One night
I hit a bay pole from then on I wore a seat belt. Don
 
All the time! It's the law in my state. It makes sense to me!
 
I started wearing them all the time when it became mandatory on military bases many years ago. I don't even think about it now, it's the first thing I do when I get in a vehicle. Until recently, my state didn't require back seat passengers to wear them, but I required it.
 
i wear mine for safety plus its the law and windshields are sooooooo expensive. also made sure since my kids were very young that the key dont go into the ignition until all seat belts are on.
 
Better part of 20 years doing X-rays in a trauma hospital...if a car doesn't have seat belts, I won't ride in it. Never in a moving car/truck without one on.
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My Dad had a consulting company way back when that did some of the very first crash dummy instrumentation. In order to calibrate the instruments there was quite a bit of research that went into automotive crash injuries including X-rays of the deceased. To this day I'll never forget the X-ray of some poor soul that had either a cigarette lighter or a radio knob stuffed right in the middle of his/her cranium where undisturbed brain matter was supposed to be. This made a BIG impression (no pun intended) on me as a teenaged driver.

Brian~
 
I've been in 3 wrecks where a seatbelt has saved my bacon. The first was a multiple roll over, the roof of the car was shorn away and I ended up down-side-up pinned in the wreckage, I laid down in the seat when I saw it coming and had a lap belt on, I walked out with a scraped up arm. Second was a near head on collision, I was a passenger and felt my body leave the seat before the slack tension thingy kicked in, I thought my eyes were coming out the sockets from the impact. The third was turn over in a ditch in a bucket truck, brakes went out going downhill, I made it through an intersection flashing my lights and blowing the horn, thankfully traffic stopped in time and I went through a red light at around 70 mph. I went up the hill on the other side and put it in the ditch, the trencher I was towing flipped over and drug the truck over with it. I would have been tossed violently to the far side of the cab if I had not been wearing it.
You bet I put it on each time i get in car and won't take anyone anywhere who won't.
Folks who don't are fools, you read about them every day.
RD
 
I always wear my seat belt and always have. If the vehicle is moving, the belt is on.
I also always wear the best helmet I can get when riding my motorcycle and a bicycle helmet when on the bicycle.
Why leave safety to chance?
 
Have mixed feelings about wearing seatbelts. Most times I do but it's because a ticket cost $200. for being a mandatory seatbelt law breaker. I do want my kids, babies & pets secured in a moving vehicle when even a sudden panic stop may be required. I can understand the safety issues involved and how about them school buses lacking seatbelts, the no seatbelts on school buses would seem to be a major safety concern.
Here in Houston, Texas, you better have the seatbelt on with the "click it or ticket" seasons, even though day laborers riding in the back of the truck seems to be OK while driving down major freeways. I'd rather decide for myself than be required by law.
 
Seat belt laws are a real pet peeve of mine, as far as I'm concerned the $)*((@#*&#@ government has no business requiring me to wear a seat belt. Yes, I know some will jump on me for this statement and tell me how much safer it, you'd change your mind if you pull a body out of a car, etc, etc, but that's my opinion and no one is going to change my mind. It is just another example of an all encroaching nanny-state.

That said, I wear seat belt *MOST* of the time. I don't wear one when I'm driving six block to the post office or going a half mile to run an errand and not going over 35 mph or so. I always put one on if I'm on the highway or driving several miles.
 
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