Friendly reminder to buckle up

[Irving]

You guys are crazy, I'd rather cause irreparable emotional anguish to my loved ones by needlessly dying in an otherwise survivable wreck just to spite a government that doesn't even know I exist, nor would even know I was gone. I also like to continuously demonstrate to my friends that I care so little about them as passengers that I go out of my way to make sure that in the event of a roll over, I WILL be a lethal projectile inside the vehicle. A projectile they'll have no chance to avoid because their willingness to survive has them safely strapped into into place.

[cmailliard]

I have only seen one incident where a seatbelt lead to a loss of life. I cannot count the number where not wearing it caused a loss of life. I have been in two accidents while not wearing my seatbelt, one I was in the back of the ambulance and we were t-boned and flipped on our side. The other I was lucky.

You must stay inside the vehicle during an accident. Rollovers - either they had their seatbelt on and are up walking around and are fine when EMS arrives, or they were not wearing their seatbelt and it is a field pronouncement. There is very rarely a middle ground.

Wear your seatbelt, make your kids wear their seatbelt. If they should be in a car seat, make them sit in a car seat.

[Wulf202]

Having driven bench seat pickups fast down country roads I find the seat belt kept in control of the wheel far better than trying to drive from the passenger side.

[Martinjmpr]

I'm not a fan of either seat belt laws or helmet laws for motorcyclists but I wear my seat belt when in a car and my helmet when on a bike.

New Years Eve, 1997, I was on a 4 day pass in Budapest and had to take a taxi across town. Jumped into the front seat and didn't bother to put on my seat belt. Crazy Hungarian taxi driver then proceeded to make an illegal left turn that sent him into the side of another car and my head straight into the windshield.

I was lucky we weren't going very fast and I just ended up with lacerations and stitches, but I'll say this:

There are fun places to spend New Year's Eve in Hungary but the E.R. isn't one of them.

[TheGrey]

Good PSA. Seat belts are not very comfortable, but they are life savers.

In addition, I wince every time I see people and/or dogs riding in the back of a pickup truck. No seatbelts back there! Just don't do that. I've seen what happens when a collision with a pickup that has passengers in the back. I'll never be able to unsee that.

[Dave]

There are fun places to spend New Year's Eve in Hungary but the E.R. isn't one of them.

Captain Jack's Hooah Club? Budapest was my 4 day pass when I was in Bosnia.


Been in a few accidents where I was hit from behind while at a stop light. One was hard enough to twist the frame on my Camaro and have it totaled. Really glad I was belted in or my chest slamming into the steering wheel would have been really bad on top of probably worse whiplash than I received.

[davsel]

Having driven bench seat pickups fast down country roads I find the seat belt kept in control of the wheel far better than trying to drive from the passenger side.

Brought back memories

[newracer]

There was an accident up here recently where the two adults in the car both died, neither was wearing a seat belt. Their 2 year old daughter was in a car seat and survived without any major injuries.

[AirbornePathogen]

When I was 18, I was involved in a single-vehicle accident, mainly due to my own stupidity. I was driving my dad's car at the time, and he always insisted that I wear a seat belt in his vehicle. Good thing too, because the vehicle wound up off its wheels and up on the driver's side. Fortunately, the only help I needed afterward was a clean pair of shorts. I don't even want to think about how much worse it would have been if I hadn't been buckled up. Needless to say, I always wear a seat belt now. Not because the law says I have to, but for the sake of keeping my own ass intact.

[funkymonkey1111]

i wear a seatbelt because i'm not an idiot--not because the government tells me to. to those that won't wear them because the gov't tells them to--it's just a matter of time before you're cleansed from the gene pool (to all of our benefit)