OT: Do you wear your seatbelt?

[onewhippedpuppy]

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/runoveraccident.html

I did not see the guy fly out until this clip.... holy crap, then he gets hit at full speed by another car!
how did I miss that?!

Holy hell, I didn't see that either! One more idiot who won't be consuming the taxpayers money in court, poetic justice I suppose.

I don't wear a seatbelt, seatbelts are for sissies. Sorry, somebody had to throw that out in this thread.

I always wear mine, and after five years of my nagging my wife has gotten to where it's automatic for her as well. She grew up in a tiny town and spent most of her time at 20 MPH, her parents never felt it necessary, which I give them crap for. Unfortunately they don't bother to slip it on when they hit the highway either. I had a friend nearly killed when he rolled his car and was ejected from the sunroof, and the car landed on him. Ouch. The cops said the rain saturated ground and his skinny frame saved his life, the car just squished him into the ground.

[Cactuar]

I always wear my seatbelt and the car won't move until every passenger has it on too. Just common sense...

[tdgard]

Always. I think that's the clip from Atlanta. 400S to 285E. Jerk was running from police after trying to pass a bad check at a mall.

[Marshy]

Always - and I had my bacon saved as a kid by being restrained in a child seat in the back of a car. Head on collision...

What I absolutely cannot get my head around is the amount of people in the UK who let their own kids go unrestrained in the back of the car. Of course, the parents are belted in the front. Do they not know what will happen to their kid, standing in the back with a hand on either front seat, in a "big stop" situation? The total lack of a single clue leaves me slack jawed...

When I was much younger, about 18, a friend's brother used to moan when I'd tell him to wear a seatbelt in the back of my car. His problem? He didn't "look cool" wearing a seatbelt. Sheesh.

[Robin-535im]

You should try Jeff's autocross trick. Move the seat back a few inches, make the belt tight and yank it to get the slack out. Then move the seat forward until it holds you in real firm. It's a hoot. Hard to breathe if you do it too tight.

[SharkmanBMW]

What I absolutely cannot get my head around is the amount of people who let their own kids go unrestrained in the back of the car. Of course, the parents are belted in the front. Do they not know what will happen to their kid, standing in the back with a hand on either front seat, in a "big stop" situation? The total lack of a single clue leaves me slack jawed...

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no kidding,... they should be criminally responsible if their kids are injured in a crash and unrestrained too.
Not only is it unsafe for the kid, but puts strain on the driver having to keep control on the loose kid!
strap them down!

[billb]

...Dad and I "restored" a '52 Ford when I was in high school. One night around July 4th, when I was around 18, I had picked up my girlfriend for a night hanging out with friends, in the old Ford. Dad had installed lap belts in the car (all steel dash). As we were tooling around town, we came to a stop sign, with a major 2-lane highway passing left and right. I looked left, looked right, then looked left again. When I pulled out, the inside of the car filled with headlights. I jabbed the gas hard as I could (351W w/C4 auto) and tried to dart into the neighborhood that was about 50 feet from the intersection. The Buick LeSabre that was doing 60 in a 35 steered right into the back of me, caught the right rear quarter, and pushed me into a 10 inch pine tree, centering the bumper and pushing the radiator back into the engine (which was still running). I shut off the engine, unbuckled my seat belt and helped my girlfriend unbuckle hers, and we exited the car through the driver's seat. The right side of the car was pushed in 12 inches.

Saved both of our bacons that night, and she had no ill effects healthwise. I think mentally she was rattled for a while, and ended up breaking up with me for a guy with an Acura (w/airbags). Of course, this was about 4 years later...

Wear your seatbelts. My Model A doesn't have them, and I sweat every time I'm in the car, but there's really not a good place to attach them in the car.

[DanDombrowski]

The last autocross I went to, some guy in an M3 came over to my car (the only other BMW there) and showed me that trick. Neat.

[1995 525i]

I do...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...351&q=seatbelt

Always...was in a bad accident in 3rd grade. The truck I as in didn't have seatbelts and I was nearly thrown from the vehicle when we t-boned a van.

[DaCan23]

One day I was at this glass place waiting for my windshield repair. Their shop had full glass front and was like 3 feet from the curb. I saw this mom drive by w/o seatbelt and 2 kids in back jumpin around w/o seatbelt... I was amazed so I began looking at every car for about 20 mins... and surprisingly at least 33% did not have seatbelt on.... and there was not a pattern... nice cars, crap cars, men, women, kids, white, asian, indian, black, trucks, commercial..... well actually almost all commercial vehicles the person was not wearing it..