Let this be a warning to anyone who doesn't wear one!

 

Car 1:

 

 

Car 2:

 

 

What a waste of a CTR and possibly a waste of life in the van! :(

This may be nasty but people who dont wear seat belts deserve everything they get. I only feel sorry for the people who have to see their crushed skulls if they ever crash.

 

I hate not wearing a seat belt. Even when I am just taking the car off the drive to change the cars round, I wear a seatbelt and that only 20 seconds and driving 10 yards in a quite close. It just feels really strange not wearing one.

 

Stuart

not wearing a seatbelt to be cool is ridiculous,

 

 

I feel naked without one, but then again, not wearing one, you are the only one whos gonna end up with brains smashed in,

well thats fookin lovely innit.

 

what you say I post pictures of a bloody great big lung tumour and wish all the smokers some happy chemo or perhaps point out that all that fast food might end up with a surgeon removing the bowel, with close ups of the colostomy.

 

yeah I know its real and it happens, but is this thread necassary?

No, I have very little pitty for people who smoke thier lungs to a lump of tar. I have little pitty for people who drink their liver to death. I dont feel sorry for fat people who die young because they eat too much and dont excersice.

 

However I do feel sorry for alcoholics who really try to stop drinking, and people who really try to stop smoking, and people who try to lose weight.

Smoking is addictive!

Drinking is addictive!

People have eating disorders or have medical reasons for not being able to lose weight.

 

Not wearing a seatbelt is not adictive

There is no medical disorder which stops people wearing a seat belt.

Not wearing a seatbelt is 100% the choice of the person in the car. It is 100% thier own doing. It takes, no more than 3 seconds to put it on and less than a second to take it off, so what is the reason for not wearing it?

 

OK it may rub slightly on long journies. I have driven for over 6 hours and it was fine.

It gets hot in summer. Well just make sure you wear clothes when you drive :S

 

I really cant see why you shouldnt wear one.

 

 

Did any "So you think you're a good driver" a few years ago. This very topic was done and there was a early 20's lad who too pride in not wearing a seat belt. They put in a car chair on rails, put the seat belt on and rolled ir forward at 10mph where it would run to the end of the rail and suddenly stop. He was shocked at what it felt like. They then asked if he wanted to do it at 5mph, approx waking speed, but this time with no belt and see if he could stay in the chair. He did and ended up coming out of the chair and landed several feet away from where he was.

 

 

 

In 1991 I was involved in a very serious car crash on the M1 when I was a the young age of 11.

 

The crash involved over 20 cars in the main part and we where right in the thick of it. My mum nearly died but the seatbelt saved her life. My dad would have gone through the windscreen and landed 30 yards away if he wasnt wearing a seat belt. Do you think he would have survived that?

 

We where lucky because 5 people died in the accident, and yes I saw them dead and I remember 1 didnt have a belt on.

 

So is this post necassary? YES.

And personally, Senna, I dont see why you took offence to this thread. Its sounding like you don't wear a seatbelt, and if you don't, I really hope your kids are not in the car when you have a crash and your head is crushed against the windscreen.

If you do wear a seatbelt, there will be no problems and there should be no problem in this thread.

ok, i'll be the first to admit it.. i dont wear my seatbelt as often as i could...

sometimes i do.. sometimes i dont.. bit of a nasty habit .. but hey its my problem.

Originally posted by scoops

ok, i'll be the first to admit it.. i dont wear my seatbelt as often as i could...

sometimes i do.. sometimes i dont.. bit of a nasty habit .. but hey its my problem.

 

No offense but it's not your problem if someone hits you head on and kills you outright because you weren't wearing a seatbelt.

Think how they would feel, even if it's not their fault.

 

 

I'm sorry to be morbid, but it doesn't hurt to be reminded of what can happen.

 

 

And senna,

You obviously feel I've hit a nerve with this thread!

If you wear a seatbelt then you're alright aren't you.

 

 

I'm sorry but not wearing a selt belt is stupid.

It takes a couple of seconds to put it on before you move off in the car, but it can be too late to put it on in hindsight

 

*Dad mode disengaged* ;)

I seem to remember statistics being published that suggested the number of accidents increased when seatbelts were made mandatory, the thinking being that people feel safer and therefore drive more dangerously. There was also something similar which suggested 'safer' cars had moe accidents e.g. Volvo's, because the people who drive them believe the hype and therefore drive accordingly. If memory serves (and it often doesn't) Saab's are statistically the safest cars on the road, but they don't make a fuss about it..

Originally posted by AndyP

I seem to remember statistics being published that suggested the number of accidents increased when seatbelts were made mandatory,

 

Yes, but I bet the damage to people was much less than without belts - however the point is valid.

 

Good thread. Yes there is a need senna !

Originally posted by AndyP

I seem to remember statistics being published that suggested the number of accidents increased when seatbelts were made mandatory......

 

Yeah thats because the women couldn't reach the steering wheel cos they were strapped to the seat. This is when seat adjustment was invented, allowing them to wind the seat back up so that it pushed their head onto the steering wheel - the number of accidents then dropped again :D:D:D

Yes, you are correct. I'm sure this is another instance where government statistics presented a confusing picture. e.g a greater proportion of accidents showed less serious injury to drivers. The fact there were more accidents overall and more third parties injured (pedestrians for example) may have been glossed over !

 

 

 

Originally posted by Nelson MainFella

Yes, but I bet the damage to people was much less than without belts - however the point is valid.

 

Good thread. Yes there is a need senna !

I am more worried about the severity of an accident than the frequency.

 

Having 2 fender benders or minor prangs doesn't hurt, but when I plow into a car at high speed I'm glad for the seat belt. (Not that I crash often... ;) )

 

A couple of years ago I was driving at 40mph down a 40mph dual carrageway and didn't notice the car in front had stopped because I had the sun in my eyes.

When I did notice I was about 1 and a half car lengths away form the car in front.

My Saxo didn't have ABS, but fortunatly it had an airbag and seat belts cause I hit the car in front at approximatly 25-30MPH!!

 

That was one hell of a wallop that caused £3000 of damage to my car alone and shunted the car I hit into the car infront! :(

 

I'm pretty sure the seatbelt and airbag saved my life, (or at least saved my ribs from being pushed through my lungs by the steering wheel and my head opening the laminated windscreen!)

 

Now if I'd had ABS, I could have maybe avoided the accident, but one thing is for sure, until the split second I locked up the wheels and said "Oh F**k!" I was having a great day and I'm glad I put my seltbelt on before I left work.

 

:D