seatbelts?

[NotaGoth]

Some people will only learn to wear their seat belt after an actual close call. And thats if they make it through.






On another note. did anyone hear about that lady, I think she'd just had a baby. Was in a car with a lapbelt on. Just about got chopped in half!!!!1 No wonder my old lady always tells me off for sitting in the middle and using the lapbelt. Shite.

[bugjuice]

Most bozos only anticipate a straight on impact - duh!!

Next time your driving and front passenger is not wearing their belt try this:
-- stuff --
ENJOY!!

bloody wicked. I'll remember that, just to put the shits up 'em

[Highlander]

I'll have to try that SD. Sounds like fun.

We had a fairly (near Fairly it was too) good smash a few years ago and our youngest (about 4 at the time) was small for her age and inertia didn't lock the seat belt in time to stop her bumping the back of the seat in front. She got a bump on the forehead, the rest of us had the bruises from the seat belts biting but we all walked away (couldn't drive - car was stuffed). Kids won't go anywhere without seatbelts on now. It was a good lesson for them.

[scumdog]

Meh, sure fire way to get ticket from me is: get caught not wearing a seatbelt.
I carry a gross pic of a dude who was not wearing one when he had a 70kph crash, show it to pretty girls sitting in the front middle console area of XD Falcons which don't have belts fitted.
Seen one head-butt the centre overhead console in a car hard enought to 'pimple' the roof exterior with the attaching self-tappers - and it was about 40kph speed.

[Maha]

Looked like the ejector malfunctioned, should have gone out the sun roof not the side window, me thinks he would have case to sue, had he still been alive that is................

[MisterD]

I have a vague recollection of a story from when seat belts were just starting to be fitted to cages. Volvo, I think were importing cars to the US with them and a chief designer at one of the big yank companies was asked about fitting them to restrain kids etc. His response was that his kids sat next to him on the front bench seat, so he could easily reach across and hold them back!

...and we wonder why GM and Ford are still getting their behinds kicked by the japs....

[Korea]

My GF of a few years back was always trying to get away with not putting on the front seatbelt. So I'd say:
"WTF? Put your seatbelt on!"
"Yeah, just in a minute..."
"Don't you feel unsafe without it???"
"Quit it already! I said in a minute!"

Seconds later I got pulled over by a bikey cop...
"Er... is there a problem officer?"
"Not you, I want to talk to her..."

Long story short, the police officer had noticed the unfastened seatbelt and issued a $70 fine to my GF!

The drive the rest of the way home was quiet - I didn't dare say "I told you so!" but possibly my smug driving expression may have had something to do with why we're no longer together...

[Finn]

why wouldn't you wear them?

the clip is a little graphic, but no blood or guts..

That'll hurt in the morning.

[MSTRS:Me]

That was not pretty. Should remind us how vulnerable we are on motorcycles. Concrete barriers on the motorways won't guarantee you stay on your side

[Finn]

They do and those rolly polly SUV shit heaps seem to love rolling over and spitting their contents out.

Rolling is part of the joy of owning an SUV. However, only a skilled driver knows how to land properly.

[Jackrat]

For some reason people seem to think that its a myth that bodies can come flying out of cars when they crash. They do and those rolly polly SUV shit heaps seem to love rolling over and spitting their contents out.

I especially enjoy speaking to the front seat passenger and drivers of vehicles involved in low speed crashes, (50kph area) where the dead give-away that they weren't wearing their seat belts are the two convex domes left in the windscreen from where their heads smacked the inside of the glass.

You ask them if they were wearing their seatbelts, (knowing full well that they weren't) and they still manage to lie as they sit there picking the broken glass out of their foreheads and wiping up the blood pissing out of their broken noses.

Its pathetic, just wear the the bloody seatbelt.

Ahemmm,I managed to put one of them neat convex shapes in the wind screen of a Toyota Corolla while in the process of parking inda ditch.
I'm all for wearing my belt and always do but that's one time it could of worked just a little better.I slid sideways out of the thing but luckily the lap part stopped my going any father than I did.
I got the scars, but the chicks DON'T dig em'.

[Colapop]

Yep always good to meet Welly's finest. Even the "get out of the car so they can't say for sure you weren't wearing your belt" trick didn't work. I knew as soon as I saw him turn he was coming for me and THEN I realised why. I was more pissed that it hadn't even occured to me as I left for work. My wife has reminded ever since - that is so much worse than the $150 fine.