Wear Your Fucking Seat Belt!

[Ms_Lilith]

The other day I was watching 'Trauma in the ER'. A girl was rushed in with a totally ripped up, very bloody face, and it turned out, she'd been the passenger in a car that got hit, and went flying off the road into an electricity pole... her face flew against the windshield, and she crashed through it.

Yesterday or Today, Zsa Zsa Gabore was in a car accident.. she wasn't wearing a seatbelt, and now, at about 85 years old, she's in serious condition in a coma in the hospital.



If you people don't do anything else right tomorrow, WEAR YOUR SEATBELT!

 

[Shaq]

More people are wearing their seatbelts now than ever have before...I'm starting to think if a person still doesn't wear one they never will considering how many factors promote wearin one....

 

[Ms_Lilith]

More people are wearing their seatbelts now than ever have before...I'm starting to think if a person still doesn't wear one they never will considering how many factors promote wearin one....

no kidding. IT's the law up here in BC, but I just can't imagine how much worse my car accidents would have been if I hadn't been wearing a seat belt.

 

[Pechorin]

In the UK you have to by law belt up in the front and the back.

What get's me though is seeing cars with kids sat on their parents knee or kids walking un restrained up and down the back seats.

 

[Ms_Lilith]

In the UK you have to by law belt up in the front and the back.

What get's me though is seeing cars with kids sat on their parents knee or kids walking un restrained up and down the back seats.

That's just asking for your child to fly out of the car in the case of an accident.

 

[ridddder]

It is a state law in ohio, I have had too many friends, and siblings die in car accidents, and airbags will not work properly if you don't use them.

 

[morninggirl5]

Seat belts are required by law in Georgia and Tennessee, but some people still refuse to wear them.

http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/metro/gwinnett/1102/29crash.html

 

[Guest]

Yes - they're a state law here (I think in every U.S. state, aren't they?) but you still see so many small children unrestrained.

We had a minor fender bender several years ago - the police said our son (who was not yet 2 at the time) would have flown through the windshield had he not been in his car seat.

Now we use a booster seat with him (it looks like an airplane seat) as he is too big for a car seat and too little for the shoulder strap harness - works like a charm!!

 

[SkyBluAngelEyes]

A couple of years ago, my daughter was in a car wreck. She was wearing her seat belt.

The gal who hit her wasn't, nor were her four kids. Each and every one of those precious children did face plants up against the windshield.

It was very lucky that none were seriously injured.. Mostly bumps and bruises... But I always thought that that mother should have been cited for child endangerment.
She wasn't even cited for the accident period, and she should have least been cited for no seat belts.
It is a law here too, but why do it if your actions aren't held accountable? The deputies here in this little county suck.

 

[Lancecastor]

Fucking Seat Belt

I dont see the belt, but I like this Fucking Seat...thanks for mentioning it!

 

[Guest]

no offense to anyone but it should be the persons individual choice to wear a seatbelt. To say you have to wear it sounds like socialism.

 

[Draco]

no offense to anyone but it should be the persons individual choice to wear a seatbelt. To say you have to wear it sounds like socialism.

Next you'll tell us that motor-cycle helmets should be viewed the same way?

 

[Guest]

no offense to anyone but it should be the persons individual choice to wear a seatbelt. To say you have to wear it sounds like socialism.

Actually - I think I agree with you. For ADULTS. It can be their choice, I suppose, although I have a feeling insurance companies would eventually choose to decline to cover in those instances.

But for children - parents should be legally obligated to restrain their minor children - that should be law.

 

[Guest]

Next you'll tell us that motor-cycle helmets should be viewed the same way?

There are no helmet laws in Kansas. It's frightening for me to watch someone speeding by on a bike in a t-shirt, shorts, and hair blowing in the breeze. Idiots.

 

[Guest]

Next you'll tell us that motor-cycle helmets should be viewed the same way?

actually, yes. You seem to be the kind of person that bends over and accepts laws without questioning the rationale of them.

 

[Guest]

If you try to force someone to wear a seatbelt... they are more likely to not do it.

I understand for safety...but there have been times where not wearing a seatbelt has saved lives.

Pros and Cons to everything ya know.

 

[Lancecastor]

no offense to anyone but it should be the persons individual choice to wear a seatbelt. To say you have to wear it sounds like socialism.

As long as my tax dollars are paying any part of the cost of saving moronic, reckless lives, they'll be expected to belt up and wear a helmet.

That sounds like social responsibility to me.



Lance

 

[Guest]

I had a friend in college who went over the handlebars of his bicycle. The ER guys told him had he not been wearing his bike helmet he probably would have broken his neck - literally!

That's just from a bicycle on a residential street. Could you imagine the damage being thrown from a motorcycle? Bare skin skidding 30 feet on the pavement? Massive head trauma?

I suppose laws are in place quite often to prevent fools from killing themselves. . .

 

[Draco]

actually, yes. You seem to be the kind of person that bends over and accepts laws without questioning the rationale of them.

Actually, I'm a bike racer with nearly thirty years experience right up to Formula 1 motorcyle racing (Thats bikes of 1000CC + to anyone that doesn't know). I value my hide. Pure and simple. I like my skin attached and healthly. Where I'm from its compulsory to wear a seat belt in a car and a helmet on a bike. When I ride, even on the road, its a full-face helmet and my race leathers. Why, I hear you ask? For my own personal protection. Nothing esle. If the law stated I could ride my bike buck naked down Main street at full whack in top gear (thats almost 200 mph - btw) I'd still ride it sensibly and be dressed in my leathers and helmet.

Dont assume nothing...you make an ass out of U.

 

[Purrde Flower]

To be truthful some seatbelts in cars do not work. I was in a car accident when I was 16 and almost broke my shoulder from slamming into the windshield. I was wearing my seatbelt properly. I still do wear my seatbelt but don't think you are safe because of it either.

 

[Guest]

My daughter was in an accident almost seven months ago. Her seatbelt was on.... but for some reason it didn't catch. The doc in the ER said that if it had... her neck could've been cut open because older vehicles have sharp seatbelts.

 

[Draco]

There are no helmet laws in Kansas. It's frightening for me to watch someone speeding by on a bike in a t-shirt, shorts, and hair blowing in the breeze. Idiots.

We've had examples of this at "Novice days". You can bring your bike to our track, get a free lesson on how to ride fast but safe, then get out there and give it a go. They turn up in jeans, cords, shorts, t-shirts even. Then they whine when we wont allow them onto the track.

"We ride like this every day" they mutter.
We just look at them and smile. And tell them to piss of politely.
No wonder some riders get the tag "Temporary Citizen"

It not about laws, its about personal safety and responsibilty.
I participate in a risky activity. Why shouldn't I make it safer for myself. Same with driving on a road in a car. I'm a safe driver, but everyone else is an idiot. (thats how I look at it) I'm not going to cause a crash, but who know what other drivers will do.

SAFE THAN SORRY, call me what you will, it will not offend me. Its my choice, I chose to be safe.

 

[bknight2602]

Yes Ma'am

 

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