Excellent Seatbelt Ad

[Bocefish]

 

[Just Me]

What I can't understand is why so many people do not wear their seat belts. I actually feel uncomfortable in a car if I do not have one on.

 

[AnaVictoriaXO]

What I can't understand is why so many people do not wear their seat belts. I actually feel uncomfortable in a car if I do not have one on.

Since moving to AZ where its legal to not wear one (for a passenger anyway) Ive gotten in the habit of not wearing one. I really need to break this habit!

 

[BlueViolet]

I even put a seat belt around my dog when driving (loop it around the front of his harness). It's not something you should play with not doing.

 

[Rose]

I'm uncomfortable if someone else in the car with me doesn't wear a seat belt. :? I'm one of those people who will not even let the car get turned on until everyone has a seat belt on.

Heck, if the dogs wouldn't chew through each other's harnesses and I didn't drive a small prius then they'd be in seat belts too. Instead they lay in the floor board in the trunk and we stop the car if they get up.

 

[Shaun__]

My seatbelt is why I am still alive today, and I have never understood why people dislike wearing them.

 

[SweepTheLeg]

Forcing people to wear seatbelts is just another way the nanny state is trying to control people's lives and taking the choice out of their hands. Let people decide whether or not they want to wear their seatbelt and if they are that stupid that they don't, natural selection will start to kick in and we'll all benefit from it.

 

[LindseyDoll]

In places like Canada where people's trips to the emergency room comes out of the taxpayers' wallets, I think it's pretty reasonable to make seat belt wearing mandatory. But then I also think that it should be possible for someone's doctor to somehow take away their ability to purchase cigarettes (I know someone who is pretty much dieing who could have a heart transplant if she just didn't smoke).
It doesn't need to be the government's place to tell people when it comes to seat belts though, drivers, parents, friends, should all enforce it in their cars if they care for their passengers safety.
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[SweepTheLeg]

I was being sarcastic about the nanny state, however I am in favor of natural selection.

 

[Just Me]

I was being sarcastic about the nanny state, however I am in favor of natural selection.

I am generally in favor of natural selection if their stupidity doesn't cost me. Sadly not wearing seat belts cost everyone in trips to the emergency room or hospital.

Do you know what they call motorcycle riders that don't wear helmets? Organ donors :lol:

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/motorcycle-helmets-and-donor-organs/

 

[LaceyRoyce]

So this is gonna be a kinda personal little story...

When i was in my teens I went through a very very bad period in my life. I was near suicidal much of the time, I stopped speaking, was self harming - and generally in a very very bad place. It was also around the time when I refused to wear a seatbelt. I originally did it as a 'rebellious' teen thing but I also figured, what the fuck does it matter?

I pulled myself out of this deep dark hole slowly, over time. Little things at a time.

I can remember very first decision I made, that was a choice to take a more positive road. I put my seat belt on. It felt so strange, but it was like me telling myself - in a very small voice "I do not wish to die today."

Day after day, no matter how bad the rest of the day was - i'd put my seatbelt on. It meant NOTHING to anybody else around me, but it was a turning point for me...


It still is why I ALWAYS wear my seatbelt. Most days now in my adult life are good days. But everytime I get in a vehicle and put my seatbelt on I remind myself "I'm choosing to live, I value my own life today"



A slightly morbid way to look at it, and possibly going way deeper than this ad, or any of the forum members really wanted.. but I felt like sharing.

 

[Zoomer]

I was being sarcastic about the nanny state, however I am in favor of natural selection.

Sarcasm is difficult to convey in such instances without an emote :roll: It's what it is made for

As for natural selection, unfortunately (as shown by two exceptional scientists being killed in a car crash in China when squashed between two buses without it being their taxi drivers fault whatsoever) the fucking morons responsible are usually the ones to survive (drunk drivers always seem to live, but kill entire families in the other vehicle). So it should be mandatory to wear seatbelts everywhere. Not just so we all aren't paying for their selfishness and stupidity - but so they don't shatter and ruin other's lives too.

I couldn't find the video I was looking for - the one where the baby flies through the windscreen and into the other car - but the below give a good idea about "seatbelts" and how those people who don't wear them can wreak havoc, even on those that do.





In the UK, it's illegal to not wear a seatbelt. It's also the legal responsibility of the driver to ensure the passengers wear the seatbelt. My friend didn't wear his, had a v low speed car accident, and turned up looking like Hitler for the next week. His face smashed into the steering wheel despite only doing about 15mph. His upper lip hit the wheel rim itself, leaving a massive and very painful bruise for about 2 weeks. He always wore a seat belt afterwards. Think he realised... accidents can and do happen, and it wasn't even his fault. If it'd been faster...

 

[TashaDutch]

reading through this all, i made up that not wearing a seatbelt is not against the law in the states? thats kinda weird if you ask me
fines of not wearing it here are about $150 (120 euro) and i never really understood how people don't wanna wear them...
i'll be the last to denie i sometimes forget to put it on when i'm on the passenger side.. but when i do... i always put it on after i find out i did...

 

[Shaun__]

reading through this all, i made up that not wearing a seatbelt is not against the law in the states? thats kinda weird if you ask me
fines of not wearing it here are about $150 (120 euro) and i never really understood how people don't wanna wear them...
i'll be the last to denie i sometimes forget to put it on when i'm on the passenger side.. but when i do... i always put it on after i find out i did...

You can be ticketed for not wearing a seatbelt in my state.

 

[Just Me]

 

[Rose]

That map ^ says passengers in the back seat of a certain age do not have to wear a seat belt in my state, BUT I know if you get caught (no matter what age) without a seat belt anywhere in the car you will be ticketed and the driver could potentially lose their license/have it revoked for awhile.

So that map may not be entirely accurate because they do check EVERYONE in the car for seat belts here. If you get caught riding in the back of a truck bed it's an even bigger fine. How do I know this? My dad doesn't use common sense all the time and thought, "hey, if my adult son is sitting still in the covered truck bed and holding the dog still, we should be fine." Nope!! It was almost a 4 figure fine. Mama was pissed! And Daddy had to take driving classes for a month.

 

[ConnerJay]

I was hoping this would be a video of a woman driving down a bumpy road...camera zoomed on her chest...wearing a seat belt.


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[Shaun__]

I was hoping this would be a video of a woman driving down a bumpy road...camera zoomed on her chest...wearing a seat belt.


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With seat belt all nice and secured.

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With seat belt improperly worn. Notice the bra failure at the end.

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Worse example yet of how not to wear a seatbelt, and what it can cause.

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[LadyLuna]

When I was little I had this problem where the seatbelt wouldn't let me breath. It would get stuck, and be really tight. This is possibly what happened with some people who don't like seatbelts. Despite this, I always insisted on wearing mine in other people's cars, and wouldn't move the car if someone wasn't wearing theirs in mine. I actually pulled into a parking lot once when a friend removed their seatbelt after we were moving.

(I only had three rules in teh car, 1. everyone wears their seatbelt. 2. No smoking. If you need a smoke, ask, and I'll find a parkinglot. 2. The driver's word is law. You can ask for the temperature to be changed, or the music to be changed, but if I say something needs to happen, it happens. There were a few complaints about any of the rules at one point, so I had to explain to them that no one was going to die in my car on my watch, that being the driver meant I had their lives in my hands, and that I can't breathe around cigarette smoke.)

In college, for the first two years, I needed to be driven around, as I did not have either license or car. The friend who drove me around the most had a heavy foot- once the car was started it was almost impossible for me to buckle. She didn't care about seatbelts, so she would go as soon as all the doors were closed. I developed the habit of buckling before my door was closed. I also developed the habit of staying buckled if I'm in the car regardless of whether or not the car is currently moving, due to many instances as a kid where I didn't realize we were about to start moving and we're already on the main road before I realize my seatbelt isn't on.

While there is a point that the one at fault is almost always never hurt, not wearing a seatbelt doesn't hurt anyone but the person not wearing the seatbelt. The reason the drunk driver survives is because he was wearing a seatbelt. (I seriously don't know anybody who doesn't put their seatbelt on when they're drunk... even if they usually don't wear one.) I will never understand the chafing against safety measures death-wish that some people have, but it is there. I have never really been comfortable with there being laws protecting people's safety. I'm okay with rules doing so (not laws, not government, but rules, personal stuff), but if people engage in unsafe behaviors, they already have consequences for those behaviors. Why should society put even more consequences to them? Society is only supposed to keep us from hurting other people, not keep us from hurting ourselves.

 

[Jessi]

Im highschool, my friend whose parents were both volunteer firefighters claimed that if your seatbelt is twisted up, it can cut really deep into your neck in a crash. So make sure your seatbelts are in proper working order!

 

[Rose]

Im highschool, my friend whose parents were both volunteer firefighters claimed that if your seatbelt is twisted up, it can cut really deep into your neck in a crash. So make sure your seatbelts are in proper working order!

For small children it can cause head or neck injuries that can be fatal too, so it's important to make sure they're either in a car seat that's right for their size or belted properly.

For pregnant women, if you wear the lap portion incorrectly, during a car accident it can cause early labor, a miscarriage or severe trauma to the fetus. Again, make sure you're belted properly. :handgestures-salute: