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Seatbelts, do you wear them?

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  • #52
    staker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,677 ✭✭✭staker


    Abigayle wrote: »
    Of course I do. With no disrespect for the dead, I need no further warning.



    EXACTLY!! +1001


  • #53
    RATM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭RATM


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

    Because my vehicle is a motorbike:pac: yes, I'm one of those things that motorists hit and then say 'He just came out of nowhere!"


  • #54
    pandamoanium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 453 ✭✭pandamoanium


    See, this is why you wear a seatbelt..





  • #55
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Epic Tissue wrote: »
    You say it like there is something to be ashamed about wearing a seatbelt.

    Not realy, sure didn't I post I always wear a seatbelt.

    Just my style of posting I suppose.


  • #56
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    RATM wrote: »
    Because my vehicle is a motorbike:pac: yes, I'm one of those things that motorists hit and then say 'He just came out of nowhere!"

    Motorcycles come with an invisibility cloak as standard these days ;)


  • #57
    Joey the lips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    Interesting point i found out recently, If you have had heart bypass surgery you dont have to wear a seat belt cause your chest bone is in a fragile state from being cracked open.... Anyone ever hear this?????

    Not looking for medical info just querying if it was repeated somewhere else I know "the individul should confirm with a doctor"

    Oh and I feel naked without one ie. a condom no sorry seatbelt! :D


  • #58
    Highsider
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Highsider


    Yes. If you don't you don't deserve to drive a car .If your caught without one you should be banned from driving for life.


  • #59
    Joey the lips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    Highsider wrote: »
    Yes. If you don't you don't deserve to drive a car .If your caught without one you should be banned from driving for life.

    I think your spot on. As a parent I would kick the [EMAIL="a@se"]a@se[/EMAIL] of my children for not wearing one.:D


  • #60
    c - 13
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭c - 13


    Always wear mine. I was in two crashes that would have been fatal for me had I not been wearing my seatbelt. In the second one the friction from the seat belt actually ripped through my shirt and chest but it was a very small price to pay.

    Will even wear the seatbelt just going to the shops, have told people to get out of my car before for not putting their seatbelt on.


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  • #61
    sdanseo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭sdanseo


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

    Changed again, IIRC every child under 11 now has to have a booster until they exceed the required height - never understood quite why, something to do with being choked by the belt maybe.

    Either way, the new law doesn't stop (well legally, it does) folks having their 8-9 year olds in the front seats... wasn't there evidence at one stage that if an airbag hits a small kid full tilt in the wrong place it can decapitate them/break their neck or something similarly vulgar?

    As for adults wearing seatbelts - if you're on your own in the car, your risk tbh, if that means you go through the windscreen then frankly it's because you were thick enough not to bother. Anyone else in the car at all should mean compulsory wearing, except Garda etc and taxis - although because taxis carry public in the front I'm tempted to say they should wear them OR have some sort of barrier so they can't take the passenger out with their head if things go tits-up.

    If you're a prent and you don't ensure the kids belt up, 10-year ban imho, and a massive fine to be paid once they are no longer dependants.


  • #62
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    OP here, and gotta say I'm blown away with the poll results.

    I gurantee if I posted this thread 10 years ago ( did boards exist 10 years ago? :confused:), the poll result would be massivly different.

    It's a cultural shift.
    And just as at one stage you'd see people belting up before checkpoints, now you see people not drinking & driving. Succuss!


  • #63
    RVN10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭RVN10


    Would always wear it no matter what , you'd have to be a fool not to.


  • #64
    LD 50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭LD 50


    Only when I'm on the bike though.


  • #65
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    I do it without thinking. I won't ever risk my own life, nor would I even start the car with someone in it that wasn't belted up. Gtfo and walk if you don't like it, tbh.


  • #66
    LD 50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭LD 50


    sdonn wrote: »
    Changed again, IIRC every child under 11 now has to have a booster until they exceed the required height - never understood quite why, something to do with being choked by the belt maybe.
    I think it has something to do with kids slipping under the strap on you waist.

    Seriously though, I always wear it. Even if I'm locked out of my brains in a taxi, I'll still put it on. It's just been ingrained into me from an early age. When I do start driving, it'll be the same for them. Wear it or walk there.


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  • #67
    Dusty87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Dusty87


    Always put it on. Enough people dyin on roads without a dusty shaped torpedo comin out the window at someone. The one time i didn was drivin half mile to local shop. Pulled and handed 2 points.


  • #68
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Always without exception, often even on buses after that bus crash in Navan some years ago where two girls who were the same age as me (at the time) were killed.


  • #69
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    I wont move the car until everyone has a seat belt on. And sometimes people take it off on the sly. Why ****ing bother. I kicked someone out of my car for doing that. Idiot.


  • #70
    Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,689 ✭✭✭Vain


    Always do. I actually lose the head when I see people driving around with kids standing up in cars and with no seatbelts on. Lucky im not a guard or id have them all locked up.


  • #71
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    Yes I automatically do.


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  • #72
    easyeason3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,104 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    mikemac wrote: »
    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?

    Many moons ago when I was a feckless underage drinker I used to stumble out of the nightclub & into a taxi along with about ten other people. More than once I travelled in the boot in order to get home or to a house party.
    There wasn't room for any of us to fart, never mind put on a seatbelt.

    However times have changed, as have taxi drivers attitudes. I'd feel a bit weird if I didn't wear a seatbelt.


  • #73
    Sleipnir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    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.

    Make it a conscious decision or you may find that permanent unconsciousness is the only option you're left with.

    Just think of this thread everytime you put the key in the ignition. After a while, it will be as automatic as putting the key in the ignition.


  • #74
    Sleipnir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    c - 13 wrote: »
    Will even wear the seatbelt just going to the shops, have told people to get out of my car before for not putting their seatbelt on.

    Every time my GF's mother gets in the car she makes a point of not putting her seatbelt on. And every time she does, I make a point of not starting the engine until she puts it on.


  • #75
    Volvoboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Volvoboy


    When i'm Working i dont use my seatbelt, its night time and the roads have alot less traffic on it.

    The reason being, i've been robbed before in the taxi (fella pinned me to the back seat by my seatbelt) was unable to move.

    But as regards daytime driving i buckle up the same for motorway driving.


  • #76
    Magic.Marker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭Magic.Marker


    I not driving at the moment but whenever I'm a passenger in the car I always were my seat & remind others to do so.

    Have a friend who brought a second-hand mirca 4 months ago. The dealership replaced all the seatbeats in the car but they didn't install them correctly (the seatbeats are way TOO tight - they leave welts & cuts on your skin after a few minutes use). I keep telling her to return the car to the dealership to get them fixed, that they might do it for free since they were the ones that installed them incorrectly in the first place. It's been 4 months and she still hasn't done it yet so she's been driving around this long without them. :|


  • #77
    easyeason3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,104 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    Magic.Marker wrote: »
    I not driving at the moment but whenever I'm a passenger in the car I always were my seat & remind others to do so.

    Have a friend who brought a second-hand mirca 4 months ago. The dealership replaced all the seatbeats in the car but they didn't install them correctly (the seatbeats are way TOO tight - they leave welts & cuts on your skin after a few minutes use). I keep telling her to return the car to the dealership to get them fixed, that they might do it for free since they were the ones that installed them incorrectly in the first place. It's been 4 months and she still hasn't done it yet so she's been driving around this long without them. :|


    HEY!!!! You are a fraud, you deserve the welts & cuts.
    The REAL Magic Marker is looking for you & when he finds you.........


  • #78
    Sleipnir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    Volvoboy wrote: »
    When i'm Working i dont use my seatbelt, its night time and the roads have alot less traffic on it.

    The reason being, i've been robbed before in the taxi (fella pinned me to the back seat by my seatbelt) was unable to move.

    But as regards daytime driving i buckle up the same for motorway driving.

    but.....you're far less likely to be in a crash on the motorway. It only takes one piece of traffic to make you wish you wore your seatbelt.


  • #79
    Whosbetter?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭Whosbetter?


    Oh God, maybe its a generational thing.

    I grew up in the '70s & there was no such thing as this self righteous muck. I'm still here!

    Still, Where there's a hysteria amongst women, there's a buck to be made!

    Sunscreen? Never heard of it when I was a kid.
    Bet there's somebody making loadsa dosh out of it now!
    Carseats? Ditto.
    Catalytic convertors? Same.
    Oh, of course, the little darlings nowadays are all alllergic to nuts/the sun/marbles/life,etc............


  • #80
    Magic.Marker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34 ✭Magic.Marker


    easyeason3 wrote: »
    HEY!!!! You are a fraud, you deserve the welts & cuts.
    The REAL Magic Marker is looking for you & when he finds you.........


    Huh?


  • #81
    Sleipnir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭Sleipnir


    Whosbetter? wrote: »
    Oh God, maybe its a generational thing.

    I grew up in the '70s & there was no such thing as this self righteous muck. I'm still here!

    Still, Where there's a hysteria amongst women, there's a buck to be made!

    Sunscreen? Never heard of it when I was a kid.
    Bet there's somebody making loadsa dosh out of it now!
    Carseats? Ditto.
    Catalytic convertors? Same.
    Oh, of course, the little darlings are all alllergic to nuts/the sun/marbles/life,etc............

    Ah, I can see what you're saying about allergies etc. load of bollix in my opinion. I'm seriously allergic to horse hair so I....avoid horses. Pretty simple.

    However, I know that I'm not 'allergic' to my head bursting a windscreen and my skull being pulverised on the way. Or my 6 year old son who sits behind me in the car being made a vegetable by hitting my own head as he is on his way through said windscreen.
    A seatbelt may not save his life or mine. But then again, my son possibly having a life due to the wearing of a small belt, may make all the difference.


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  • #82
    easyeason3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,104 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    Magic.Marker wrote: »
    Huh?

    There is already a Magic Marker. Not Magic.Marker.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055587341


  • #83
    easyeason3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,104 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    Sleipnir wrote: »
    Ah, I can see what you're saying about allergies etc. load of bollix in my opinion. I'm seriously allergic to horse hair so I....avoid horses. Pretty simple.

    However, I know that I'm not 'allergic' to my head bursting a windscreen and my skull being pulverised on the way. Or my 6 year old son who sits behind me in the car being made a vegetable by hitting my own head as he is on his way through said windscreen.
    A seatbelt may not safe his life or mine. But then again, my son possibly having a life due to a small belt, makes all the difference.


    Yeah but you have to agree that there are people on the road who grew up not using seatbelts/ drinking & driving/ speeding etc.
    There was a time when those things were almost acceptable because they were not enforced.
    It doesn't make it right but it happened, like the sceanario I described in a previous post of getting home in the boot of a taxi.
    Most peoples attitudes have changed an awful lot for the better. But I can see why the previous poster wrote what he did.


  • #84
    [Deleted User]
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    I always have the seatbelt on in the car. I'd usually put it on before I start the car. It amazes me that some people don't. Ever notice in car parks at supermarkets etc. that a load of people will pull off and try and out on the seat belt with one hand while driving. While they are doing this they are usually weaving around like mad yokes. Incredibly stupid.


  • #85
    Whosbetter?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭Whosbetter?


    Sleipnir wrote: »
    Ah, I can see what you're saying about allergies etc. load of bollix in my opinion. I'm seriously allergic to horse hair so I....avoid horses. Pretty simple.

    However, I know that I'm not 'allergic' to my head bursting a windscreen and my skull being pulverised on the way. Or my 6 year old son who sits behind me in the car being made a vegetable by hitting my own head as he is on his way through said windscreen.
    A seatbelt may not save his life or mine. But then again, my son possibly having a life due to the wearing of a small belt, may make all the difference.

    True. I have a 4 year old daughter myself & always keep her belted in.

    I just get pissed off with all the 'safety nazis' out there telling one what to do. Just cos they were brainwashed into doing it 'cos of what they're being advised by with 'womens mags'

    Always, there's someone, somewhere making a quid out of it.

    Amazing really!


  • #86
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Whosbetter? wrote: »
    True. I have a 4 year old daughter myself & always keep her belted in.

    I just get pissed off with all the 'safety nazis' out there telling one what to do. Just cos they were brainwashed into doing it 'cos of what they're being advised by with 'womens mags'

    Always, there's someone, somewhere making a quid out of it.

    Amazing really!
    I'm really drunk now and I'm going to drive the wrong way down the M4.

    Anyone got a problem with that?
    Huh?
    Bring it ****ing on.


  • #87
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Terry wrote: »
    I'm really drunk now and I'm going to drive the wrong way down the M4.

    Anyone got a problem with that?

    Nope, it's cool so long as you're wearing a seatbelt.


  • #88
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Terry wrote: »
    I'm really drunk now and I'm going to drive the wrong way down the M4.

    Anyone got a problem with that?
    Huh?
    Bring it ****ing on.

    Turn on your lights idiot....shakes fist


  • #89
    Holsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Yep, can't drive without it on, feels weird without it.


  • #90
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Magic.Marker wrote: »
    I not driving at the moment

    Thank god, posting on Boards while driving is almost worse than not wearing a seatbelt.


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  • #91
    Whosbetter?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭Whosbetter?


    Terry wrote: »
    I'm really drunk now and I'm going to drive the wrong way down the M4.

    Anyone got a problem with that?
    Huh?
    Bring it ****ing on.

    Aye I always think it's cool to drive around pished with the bairns in the Hiace boss.:D:D:D


  • #92
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,351 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    I have a heavy foot, so I wear seat belts always. I'm young and don't need my face modified by the windshield.


  • #93
    Whosbetter?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭Whosbetter?


    Blue_Lagoon wrote: »
    I have a heavy foot, so I wear seat belts always. I'm young and don't need my face modified by the windshield.

    Funny you should mention that.
    I never wore a belt in my early driving days.
    In '93, I crashed badly & was thrown thru the windscreen & hit a wall.
    I had bad head/facial injuries.

    Did I wear a safety belt after that? Emm no.

    Diff world then.


  • #94
    AlkalineAcid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭AlkalineAcid


    Does anyone ever feel like they're missing a seat belt in the cinema? The seats remind me of car seats so I feel naked sometimes. Am I the only one?


  • #95
    Whosbetter?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭Whosbetter?


    The injuries to my face were no prob, cos I was not good looking to start with.:)

    Later in'95 I bought a Ford Capri & somehow, I kept gettin stopped by the guards.

    Usually, I would throw on the belt if I saw a checkpoint ahead, no probs.

    Capris have long doors, however, So by the time I'd put on the belt I'd have killed all the cops on the checkpoint.

    Solution; Wear the belt all the time!

    Been doing it ever since.


  • #96
    Black Swan
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    AlkalineAcid wrote: »
    Does anyone ever feel like they're missing a seat belt in the cinema? The seats remind me of car seats so I feel naked sometimes. Am I the only one?
    What? When you're watching Grand Theft Auto or The Fast and the Furious? Me too!:D


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  • #97
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Of course I do. What kind of sap doesn't?

    I saw a person driving a kid who was standing up in the front seat. On the motorway.

    What class of utter fool would do this?


  • #98
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    stovelid wrote: »
    Of course I do. What kind of sap doesn't?
    Agreed. Question borders on the ridiculous.


  • #99
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    AlkalineAcid wrote: »
    Does anyone ever feel like they're missing a seat belt in the cinema? The seats remind me of car seats so I feel naked sometimes. Am I the only one?

    Strangely, you're not.


  • #100
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    Don't wear a seatbelt and you deserve what's coming to you.
    It takes less than 5 seconds and it offers huge benefits.


  • #101
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    I don't even have to think about it, it's sort of a reflex, totally automatic. My mum drives me nuts though, she never puts one on, then I have to do the whole nagging "put on the belt or I'm not driving". She puts it on, then ten minutes later I look in the mirror and it's off again. And SHE gets huffy when I ask her again. "Ah but it's sooo uncomfortable)

    (It's a terrible thing to say, but it's uncomfortable because she is fat...which in my book is alll the more reason to wear one, esp if she is sitting in the back.)


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