Seatbelts, do you wear them?

mikemac · 01-05-2009 10:03pm #1

Used to stroll around town (Nenagh) on my school lunchbreaks and watch people desperatly try to put on their seatbelt when they saw a garda.
The garda station is in the centre of town. Twas the late 1990's.

I don't drive a car, only a moped :cool:
But I get taxi's a lot and always wear my seatbelt in the back seat.
And had taxi drivers comment on it. What, a taxi driver with an opinion??

So own up, do you wear it? Was it different ten years ago?
And I'm guessing many wear seatbelts as a driver but maybe not in the backseat as a passenger? Is that you?

Captain-America · 01-05-2009 10:04pm

Always wear my seatbelt, always have, always will.

And I'll give out to the people in the car if they don't have theirs on.

tony1kenobi · 01-05-2009 10:06pm

Only if I am in a motor vehicle.

SV · 01-05-2009 10:06pm

I won't drive my own car if my passengers aren't wearing the seat belt.
Piss off with your "It's uncomfortable" excuse, you can walk home if it's that uncomfortable.

liah · 01-05-2009 10:07pm

I just don't think about it, I never bother to put it on. It's not a conscious decision not to, though.

Tabnabs · 01-05-2009 10:08pm

My car belts out a warning signal if anyone in the car isn't wearing seatbelts. It knows who's sitting where too :eek:

ibarelycare · 01-05-2009 10:08pm

Yeah it's stupid not to and I make all my passengers wear them too. When I was young though we weren't made wear seatbelts in the back at all. Only when I was promoted to the front seat (at age 10) was I made wear it! So much stricter these days and rightly so

Saibh · 01-05-2009 10:08pm

Yes, wear seatbelt as a driver and a passenger.

And anyone as a passenger in my car are asked to wear a seatbelt.

Tech3 · 01-05-2009 10:12pm

Of course I wear a seat belt in my car and I also tell whoever steps into my car to wear one.

In a bus if provided I used to wear a seatbelt

turgon · 01-05-2009 10:12pm

I was in a car accident where the girl behind me broke her collar bone just from the force of the seatbelt against her shoulder. Could you imagine the speed she would have flown at if she wasnt wearing it?

Anyone who doesnt wear a seatbelt is just being a retard. And not only are they messing themselves up, but very often they kill other people with their stupidity.

mobius42 · 01-05-2009 10:13pm

It's the 21st century. Not wearing a seatbelt should count as a Darwin award waiting to happen.

Hagar · 01-05-2009 10:13pm

Only in the car.

Normster · 01-05-2009 10:17pm

mobius42 wrote: »

It's the 21st century. Not wearing a seatbelt should count as a Darwin award waiting to happen.

LOL .. my reply of "Yes. Don't be stupid" is pityfull in comparison!

You ain't wearin a seatbelt, I ain't driving. You know it's the one without the seatbelt who causes all the damage!

Terry · 01-05-2009 10:18pm

Just after getting out of my friend's car.
Not even the constant beeping forces him to put it on. I end up thumping him in the arm and making him put it on.

I've sat in the back seat of friend's cars and put the belt on and had them ask if I trust them.
1. I trust my friends. It's the other ***** on the road I don't trust.
2. It's the law and they'll be stuck with the fine and then bitch me out about it.

I've done some stupid things whilst driving, but I always wore a seatbelt.

Captain-America · 01-05-2009 10:19pm

liah wrote: »

I just don't think about it, I never bother to put it on. It's not a conscious decision not to, though.

Perhaps you should consider thinking about it.

GirlInterrupted · 01-05-2009 10:20pm

My car doesn't move unless everyone in it is belted up, and I won't take more passengers than I have seatbelts.

Parents who don't belt their children in the backseats (and they are many) should be charged with endangerment.

Podge2k7 · 01-05-2009 10:20pm

I always wear my seatbelt.

Berty · 01-05-2009 10:23pm

Driving a bomb at up to 120kph(and possibly more) without a seatbelt is very intelligent.

Bomb being a box made from steel/aluminimum and plastic filled with a highly flammable liquid on roads where your wing mirrors nearly touch.

AHA but did you know that If you drive a delivery truck in a CBD(central business district) then you do not have to wear a seatbelt because you start and stop the vehicle so often. Its in the ROTR so dont say fvcking source.. So true is this fact that many trucks do not even have seat belts. I had a 2004 Daf that did not come with seatbelts yet the 2006 did.

turgon · 01-05-2009 10:25pm

This guy I knew was driving through a tiny little village one day with his seatbelt off. Next thing the Gardai pull him over at a checkpoint at one side of the village. He gets a fine and 2 penalty points, and obviously a big red face.

So anyway, embarrassment over, he heads off through this little village. About 30 seconds later he arrives on another Garda checkpoint on the other side.

And I know what your thinking: he couldnt be this stupid. But oh es he was - another fine and two more penalty points for wearing no seatbelt.

And rightly so!

liah · 01-05-2009 10:26pm

Captain-America wrote: »

Perhaps you should consider thinking about it.

I put it on if someone reminds me of it. It's really just an entirely absent-minded thing. I don't spend much time in cars, though, and I don't drive.

Gummy Panda · 01-05-2009 10:26pm

Op I believe in a taxi it's the passenger that gets the fine.

baglady · 01-05-2009 10:27pm

glad to see the high percentage of people who do wear them in the poll. I always always always wear it. Anyone who doesn't, in my opinion, is frankly a huge idiot

blow69 · 01-05-2009 10:28pm

Anyone who doesn't wear a seatbelt deserves to be shot!

And I mean that.

Terry · 01-05-2009 10:32pm

liah wrote: »

I just don't think about it, I never bother to put it on. It's not a conscious decision not to, though.

Where you're going, you don't need roads.
Everybody to 88 MPH.

Berty wrote: »

Driving a bomb at up to 120kph(and possibly more) without a seatbelt is very intelligent.

Bomb being a box made from steel/aluminimum and plastic filled with a highly flammable liquid on roads where your wing mirrors nearly touch.

AHA but did you know that If you drive a delivery truck in a CBD(central business district) then you do not have to wear a seatbelt because you start and stop the vehicle so often. Its in the ROTR so dont say fvcking source.. So true is this fact that many trucks do not even have seat belts. I had a 2004 Daf that did not come with seatbelts yet the 2006 did.

Funnily enough the truck I was a passenger in one day didn't have seat belts.
I barely moved when we ploughed into a merc and sent it flying through a traffic island.

turgon wrote: »

This guy I knew was driving through a tiny little village one day with his seatbelt off. Next thing the Gardai pull him over at a checkpoint at one side of the village. He gets a fine and 2 penalty points, and obviously a big red face.

So anyway, embarrassment over, he heads off through this little village. About 30 seconds later he arrives on another Garda checkpoint on the other side.

And I know what your thinking: he couldnt be this stupid. But oh es he was - another fine and two more penalty points for wearing no seatbelt.

And rightly so!

Was it Horse and Jockey.
If you're not from the area and a Garda pulls you over, you have to get away with laughing when the Garda gives out to you for speeding through there.*

*A friend about 10 years ago. I was in the back of the van cracking up laughing.
The friend was an idiotic driver all the same.

leitrim lad · 01-05-2009 10:34pm

its like a habit once i sit in i curl the left arm around under the belt and just as im taking off i click it in.

i know one ejit who got a "letter" from his local gp to say he got a kick in the shoulder from a cow ,how belivable ,and he produces it everytime he is stopped ,

he will produce it to a pole or a lorry one day and they will give him a real shoulder problem,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, idiot

Abi · 01-05-2009 10:37pm

Of course I do. With no disrespect for the dead, I need no further warning.

MrsMcSteamy · 01-05-2009 10:37pm

I always wear one, feel really weird not wearing one, even if i am just sitting in a parked car which i suppose is a good thing.

omb0wyn5ehpij9 · 01-05-2009 10:37pm

Captain-America wrote: »

Always wear my seatbelt, always have, always will.

And I'll give out to the people in the car if they don't have theirs on.

You took the words out of my mouth...

ScumLord · 01-05-2009 10:40pm

It's instinct at this stage, keys in, belt on, start car.

I'd be shocked to find anyone that didn't but I ran into one last year. They had my car and rather than just put on the belt and stop the car annoying them, they took the seat belt from the passenger side and plugged it into the drivers clasp. It was the most moronic thing I've ever come across.

robinph · 01-05-2009 10:48pm

Feels weird to not be wearing a seatbelt in a car.

The car I passed my test in was so old that they had only been added as an optional extra in the front seats, and they were fixed as well so there was no movement at all in them after you'd adjusted it. The fixings would probably have popped off though in the event of an actual crash so not a whole lot of use really.

Captain-America · 01-05-2009 10:50pm

Wow, I love the poll responses.

Biggins · 01-05-2009 10:53pm

Always.

I've seen too many dead bodies 'cos of lack of wearing them and I have been to too many inquests for same reason.

Side issue: Seeing kids bouncing around (no belt on them either) in the front of moving cars - now that REALLY pisses me off big time and gets me angry.
How stupid are some people!

tony1kenobi · 01-05-2009 10:54pm

Terry wrote: »

Funnily enough the truck I was a passenger in one day didn't have seat belts.
I barely moved when we ploughed into a merc and sent it flying through a traffic island.

I don't suppose that was in a tunnel in Paris in 1997?

galwayrush · 01-05-2009 10:55pm

I wear them, if i forget, the kids will yell at me.:cool:

Mr Benevolent · 01-05-2009 10:56pm

I was in the back of a taxi the other day, four pax in the car (my parents and brother). My mum was in the middle, she's a touch on the wide side and couldn't be bothered putting her belt on (she always wears it when driving and usually as pax).

It was a tense ride home. We were very annoyed at her for not wearing it.

Inertial reels and pyro pretensioners ftw.

ScumLord · 01-05-2009 10:59pm

galwayrush wrote: »

I wear them, if i forget, the kids will yell at me.:cool:

How do you remember when your not kidnapping children?

Mrmoe · 01-05-2009 11:01pm

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

My car doesn't move unless everyone in it is belted up, and I won't take more passengers than I have seatbelts.

Parents who don't belt their children in the backseats (and they are many) should be charged with endangerment.

My parents used to belt me in the back seat the whole time, mainly because I was a little sh*t.

Pherekydes · 01-05-2009 11:01pm

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

Parents who don't belt their children in the backseats (and they are many) should be charged with endangerment.

I don't need to put my kids in the car to belt them. :pac:

Also, to correct a possible misconception, a driver is not liable if adult passengers do not wear a seatbelt. The passenger will be fined.

January · 01-05-2009 11:23pm

Pherekydes wrote: »

I don't need to put my kids in the car to belt them. :pac:

Also, to correct a possible misconception, a driver is not liable if adult passengers do not wear a seatbelt. The passenger will be fined.

Yep, afair, if you are over sixteen years old and are a passenger in a motor vehicle and are caught not wearing a seatbelt, the fine is issued to you not the driver... but somehow I cannot find anything on the web...

Overheal · 01-05-2009 11:31pm

Atari Splatguar tbh

missbaker · 01-05-2009 11:35pm

I always wear it. i sit in the car and put on my seatbelt straight away! Its instinct.

Epic Tissue · 02-05-2009 12:00am

mikemac wrote: »

So own up, do you wear it?

You say it like there is something to be ashamed about wearing a seatbelt.

Pherekydes · 02-05-2009 12:11am

adrieanne__x wrote: »

Yep, afair, if you are over sixteen years old and are a passenger in a motor vehicle and are caught not wearing a seatbelt, the fine is issued to you not the driver... but somehow I cannot find anything on the web...

Statutory Instrument 359/1991, Part III, Para 7, sub para 3:

(3) Subject to the provisions of article 8 of these Regulations, the driver of a vehicle to which this article applies shall not, as and from the 1st day of January 1993, permit a person who is under 17 years of age to occupy a forward facing seat, not being a front seat, unless that person is—

( a ) 4 years of age or upwards and is wearing a safety belt, or

( b ) restrained by an appropriate child restraint.

bronte · 02-05-2009 12:39am

I always do..just don't feel safe without it.

RATM · 02-05-2009 2:13am

I never wear a seat belt mainly because my vehicle doesn't have one. Even if it did I don't think I'd wear it, I reckon it would do me more harm than good in the event of an accident.

Captain-America · 02-05-2009 2:18am

RATM wrote: »

I never wear a seat belt mainly because my vehicle doesn't have one. Even if it did I don't think I'd wear it, I reckon it would do me more harm than good in the event of an accident.

Explain how.

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 02-05-2009 2:18am

Always, when i'm sitting in the front... not so much in the back.. i should wear it always though.... i never wear it on a bus becaus the ones in buses are crap imo

Saibh · 02-05-2009 2:19am

RATM wrote: »

I never wear a seat belt mainly because my vehicle doesn't have one. Even if it did I don't think I'd wear it, I reckon it would do me more harm than good in the event of an accident.

What makes you think it will do more harm than good? They are there for a reason.

entropi · 02-05-2009 2:20am

Always wear one, and say out loud "seatbelts!" before we move off just incase:)

Tinchy · 02-05-2009 2:30am

Master of Nothing wrote: »

Always wear one, and say out loud "seatbelts!" before we move off just incase:)

ha i do this too :P never wear them on buses though

RATM · 02-05-2009 2:32am

Captain-America wrote: »

Explain how.

Nothing to explain really, theres no seat belt on my wheels, end of, nothing really illegal about that IMO.
I've gone at speeds in excess of 80mph without a seat belt, doesn't bother me whatsoever, i'm willing to take the risk and whatever happens, happens.
Its my choice to do as I do, if dont wanna wear a belt then thats my choice.....

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