Do You Wear Your Seatbelt?

Max Power

I do but only recently got into the habit of wearing it. If I was in anyone else's car I would always wear it but in my own I wouldn't up until recently.

challengemaster

Sounds hilarious

Frynge

Always. And any body who sits in a car im driving wears it too.

I sat in a car outside a pub for five minuts once because my aunt and uncle who owned the car didnt want to wear them.

Max Power

challengemaster wrote: »

Sounds hilarious

Incisive input there. If I wanted smart arsed answers I would've posted this in AH. :rolleyes:

challengemaster

FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

Incisive input there. If I wanted smart arsed answers I would've posted this in AH. :rolleyes:

Idiotic question gets idiotic answers.


Also I notice you've edited the "It's actually quite funny" part from your original post, which I was referring to.

Max Power

challengemaster wrote: »

Idiotic question gets idiotic answers.


Also I notice you've edited the "It's actually quite funny" part from your original post, which I was referring to.

What's idiotic about the question? Go on, do tell.

Cookie_Monster

I saw someone not wearing one for the first time in as long as I care to remember and it surprised me. I would have thought by now compliance is almost total

Skatedude

FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

What's idiotic about the question? Go on, do tell.

Not wearing a seatbelt is idiotic, Why would anyone ever, ever chose to drive without a seatbelt.

challengemaster

Skatedude wrote: »

Not wearing a seatbelt is idiotic, Why would anyone ever, ever chose to drive without a seatbelt.

Apart from medical exemption, obviously.

zenno

FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

I do but only recently got into the habit of wearing it. If I was in anyone else's car I would always wear it but in my own I wouldn't up until recently.

This is totally illogical. It is for the safety of yourself to wear it at all times, even a gobs*ite like me knows this.

I will not move the car unless they firstly put on the seatbelt. Ah sure common sense has gone out the window or face-first into a window. If you think you are the perfect driver does it not seem feasible to you that a person heading towards you texting on their mobile phone won't slide onto your side of the road and hit you or many other problems of which can happen while driving ?.

Cookie_Monster

zenno wrote: »

No-one gets into my car unless they firstly put on the seatbelt..

how does that work, do you have really really long seatbelts?

zenno

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

how does that work, do you have really really long seatbelts?

LOL i got ye hehe, ok i'll fix that. Fudged that one i did. i'm only half human so it's expected.

12gauge dave

For us younger generations its like blinking to us we dont even think about it but to older generations using a seatbelt is something not so commonly practised in days long gone

enda1

Yes I wear one. It is the most important safety aspect of a car and the one item all other safety systems and designs are built around.

Cheshire Cat

I don't even think about it. Get into the car, key in the ignition, seatbelt on. But having massive poblems with mother-in-law who reckons you don't need a seatbelt as long as you stay within city limits. My car my rules, I won't start the car until everybody is strapped in.

areyawell

When you crash your car I don't want to headbutted by you after flying through your windowscreen and travelling 100 metres through the air to hit me in the head

Joey the lips

Only when i am driving forward

R.O.R

The only time I don't wear a seatbelt is when moving a car from the front of the building around the back, and most of the time I end up putting it on while waiting for the gates to open, just to silence the incessant bloody beeping noise. The Avensis is probably the worst for that.

Always have the belt on going on to a public road though.

Valetta

FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

I do but only recently got into the habit of wearing it. If I was in anyone else's car I would always wear it but in my own I wouldn't up until recently.

What happened recently to make you change your ways?

Zubeneschamali

I've been wearing a seatbelt ever since my Da got the Hillman Avenger back in, oh, 1976.

It's starting to chafe a bit.

Sunnyisland

Clunk click every trip.

Mint Sauce

Always. Anyone who gets into my car is told to wear theirs as well.

djimi

It actually feels plain wrong if I try to drive without the seatbelt on (even if its only moving the car around the garden or whatever).

postitnote

People who don't wear seatbelts are apt candidates for the Darwin Awards IMO

RustyNut

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

I've been wearing a seatbelt ever since my Da got the Hillman Avenger back in, oh, 1976.

It's starting to chafe a bit.

I remember them. Held closed by a magnet and unless you pulled it as tight as it would go it would just fall open :eek:

blackwhite

I handle the group insurance for the company I work in.

Three weeks ago one of our execs in the UK was involved in a fatal RTA. Driving to work in his A6, a Focus coming towards him. Focus driver had a heart attack and swerved across into his path, head on collision.

Our guy walked away with some badly bruised ribs, and a severe case of shock. He was wearing a seatbelt.
Both occupants of the Focus were killed. The driver was wearing his seatbelt, but possibly from the heart attack. Didn't have many visible external injuries according to the police report. The female passenger in the oncoming car wasn't wearing a seatbelt. Hit off dash and windscreen, police report said there appeared to be severe trauma to the head.

I've seen the dash-cam footage, it's pretty horrific.

If ever I had the slightest thought about not wearing a seatbelt, it's gone now.......

Zubeneschamali

RustyNut wrote: »

I remember them. Held closed by a magnet and unless you pulled it as tight as it would go it would just fall open :eek:

No inertia reels back then, which I assume is the source of the idea that you needn't wear it reversing.

You could not turn around without unbuckling first.

BrensBenz

Skatedude wrote: »

Not wearing a seatbelt is idiotic, Why would anyone ever, ever chose to drive without a seatbelt.

Slightly off topic: Whatever about drivers, I regularly see kids in front and back seats without seatbelts. At the risk of a verbal explosion in my face, I once asked a driver / parent about the wisdom of this. "Oh, they're grand, I'm being reeeeeelly careful". Not sure if anybody else is!
Do YOU try extra hard not to collide with cars carrying kids without seatbelts? Maybe that's what those stupid "Baby on Board" stickers are for(?)

Stheno

BrensBenz wrote: »

Slightly off topic: Whatever about drivers, I regularly see kids in front and back seats without seatbelts. At the risk of a verbal explosion in my face, I once asked a driver / parent about the wisdom of this. "Oh, they're grand, I'm being reeeeeelly careful". Not sure if anybody else is!
Do YOU try extra hard not to collide with cars carrying kids without seatbelts? Maybe that's what those stupid "Baby on Board" stickers are for(?)

That's mental!

I always wear a seatbelt.

DavyD_83

Always wear one when driving or in passenger seat.
The rare time i'm in the back of a car (usually only taxis), I don't always. Back seat belts always just seem so awkward.

goz83

ALWAYS!

One thing I don't understand is why the driver of a vehicle is allowed to remove his/her seatbelt when reversing! When I was doing my driving test and reversing around the corner, the tester said I coul remove my seatbelt, so I could look behind me while reversing. I ignored his terrible (but road legal) advice and kept my seatbelt on. I for one find it easy to look behind me when wearing a seatbelt.

RainyDay

realies wrote: »

Clunk click every trip.

Yes indeed, Jimmy Saville was right all along.

joujoujou

Always.

It's just like something I do without any control - even if just moving car from front to the back of my house I realize I put the belt up, then drive.

conzy

I feel uncomfortable sitting in the car without the seatbelt on. Even eating drive through or just hopping into the car to check something I have it on before I know it

CiniO

R.O.R wrote: »

The only time I don't wear a seatbelt is when moving a car from the front of the building around the back, and most of the time I end up putting it on while waiting for the gates to open, just to silence the incessant bloody beeping noise. The Avensis is probably the worst for that.

That's the reason why I turned off my beeper. It's bloody annoying.

CiniO

A friend of mine, who lost her daughter in accident never wears a seatbelt since.

In this accident there was few teenagers in the car (3 or 4) I'm not sure. My friend's daughter was driving. She was the only one wearing seatbelt. She was the only one who died.

Rasmus

CiniO wrote: »

A friend of mine, who lost her daughter in accident never wears a seatbelt since.

In this accident there was few teenagers in the car (3 or 4) I'm not sure. My friend's daughter was driving. She was the only one wearing seatbelt. She was the only one who died.

Your poor friend - but that is some flawed logic : (

bobin fudge

I genuinely wouldnt feel comfortable not driving with a seatbelt on, not in a moral way but literally would feel strange driving not strapped in. Ironic considering the older generation complained about seatbelts with the opposite argument to mine

RustyNut

I also remember my Da's Vauxhall victor with a front bench seat, you could easily fit the driver and 3 or 4 kids across it and the emergency restraint system consisted of the Old Fella stretching his arm across us. Was allways a source of great hilarity when one of us would end up on the floor or doing a face plant into the windscreen.
Good times, good times.

Sleepy

My kids would give out to anyone not wearing a seatbelt. Pure stupidity not to wear one in this day and age tbh.

FridaysWell

Feels so unnatural not to wear a seatbelt... feels like you're naked driving if you're not strapped in. Think its natural now for younger generations.

166man

It's one of the first things I do when I get into the car. Absolutely. My old man on the other hand is in the car and halfway down the road before it's on, ludicrous but I guess that's what it was like back when he was a kid with no regulation.

Fiona

I would never drive without my seatbelt, having been in 3 rta 2 with and one without I know what it's like and it is not pleasant.

I also refuse to take passengers unless they wear a belt.

advertsfox

I always do and you will NOT get in my car unless you have it fastened too.

Joe 90

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

I've been wearing a seatbelt ever since my Da got the Hillman Avenger back in, oh, 1976.

It's starting to chafe a bit.

I've been fitting them and wearing them since 1967. In those days you had to go out and buy them and fit them.

Funny enough, the year that it was made compulsory to wear them in the UK, 1984 I think, I stayed with a guy in London whose girl friend was a young doctor. She reckoned that she had seen a fantastic reduction in the number of facial and cranial injuries as soon as wearing them became compulsory.

zenno

I've noticed a fare few people driving off and then struggling putting their seatbelt on instead of putting it on before the car is moving. Seems odd that you would start the car and then drive a few feet and then put it on as the car is in motion. The logical way spock is to put seatbelt on then start engine and off ye go. Why do drivers do this ? i don't get it.

Clunk click, start engine and drive

As to start engine, drive, then put seatbelt on while in motion ?. I suppose they are using the seatbelt but i find it odd that they do this while the car is moving sometimes struggling like mad and swerving all over the plantation. There's a few hector pasciles out there for sure.

Supergurrier

Wouldn't feel right w/o having it on tbh

It's automatic

101sean

Always worn one since someone nearly put me through a screen in 1980, feels totally wrong not wearing one now. It's so automatic I've found myself putting the belt on just to move the 110 across the yard!

Seems odd looking back at the long drives to Ireland with 5 unrestrained kids in an Anglia estate back in the 60s :eek:

Mycroft H

101sean wrote: »

Always worn one since someone nearly put me through a screen in 1980, feels totally wrong not wearing one now. It's so automatic I've found myself putting the belt on just to move the 110 across the yard!

Seems odd looking back at the long drives to Ireland with 5 unrestrained kids in an Anglia estate back in the 60s :eek:

And another 3 in the boot.

It's amazing how times change, it's the done thing now. I still have to occasionally have to my dad though ha

galwayjohn89

I never think about my seat belt I just put it on automatically. Once I was dropping the car into the garage pulled up outside and they told me to drive it straight onto the ramp. Hopped back in car and put on the belt then moved the car 5 metres. Mechanics had a good laugh at me.

I used to give my mates a lift too school and there was one who would always refuse to wear it. I wouldn't move without her putting it on but then she'd take it off half way home. I'd always pull in until she put it back on. Did my head in.

kirving

I remember getting really thick with a Spanish taxi driver who was too lazy to fold down the 3rd rod of seats, and wanted 4 of us to squash in the back, but in Thailand it felt natural to hop in the back of a Hilux on country roads!