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amom · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:55 am Post subject: Seat Belts

Just curious, do all of you wear them? The stories on each of the most recent car accidents where someone has been killed seem to mention that the occupants were ejected. Except the one where the car rolled, and the driver crawled out uninjured. I always wear my seatbelt, no matter what.
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spike · Professional Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 2030

Without question--ALWAYS.I survived the motorcycle crash with a dumb decision of not wearing a helmet---only by God's help.Im not going to be dumb about that kinda stuff anymore.Toodleloo. Wink

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Brant · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:30 am Post subject:

When I was young, and stupid, I was very cavalier about seat belts. Now I wear them religiously and demand that everyone in my car is buckled up. Although I did once survive an accident in which I'm convinced I would have been killed had I been wearing a seat belt, in most kinds of wrecks, you're way better off to be belted in.
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dick · Journeyman Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 3134

I always wear my seatbelt. I'm usually in a hurry. So, I might pull out onto the road and drive a mile before I strap it on... but I always put it on eventually.

That might not help me much. I forget the statistic, but doesn't 50% of accidents happen within a mile of that person home?
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Professor · Apprentice Joined: 03 Dec 2008 Posts: 358

Always in bad weather, but rarely on a nice day and think it should be my right to choose whether I wear one or not.
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Brant · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:34 am Post subject:

I think maybe it's five or 10 miles, but it's a red herring, because most folks do 90 percent of their driving within a certain number of miles of their home. If we all drove cross-country on a regular basis, the accidents would occur all over the place.
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blackballed · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:38 am Post subject:

ALWAYS,dont need any more tickets.learned that in wash BB

freethinker · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 9:47 am Post subject:

On a recent trip home from Pittsburgh, my 22 year old
insists on driving what is in reality her car... Then she
asks nicely that I not smoke and fasten my seat belt..
I begin to tell her that I was crawling out of the flaming
wreckage of stolen cars before she was a gleam in my
eye...But I don't...I relax in the passenger seat and while
she's distracted, change all of her radio pre-sets to WJPA...
And then I nap... Cradled in a seat belt (for once) and the
comfort of knowing that Sometimes it's good getting old in
a changing world...
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SSSS · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:05 pm Post subject:

never wear them-never will. I truly believe they cause as much injury as they prevent (and that is based on experience). I have been know to cut them completely out of vehicles.

And-like motorcycle helmets, I think it should be MY choice, not the governments.
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Brant · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:32 pm Post subject:

When I see people riding motorcycles without helmets, I think of them as potential organ donors. You have to be incredibly stupid to do that.
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