Do you wear your seatbelt? Why WOULDNT you?
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Just glanced at an article which was talking about a load of motorists not wearing their seatbelt.
Question: Why wouldn't you? For the life of me, I cannot work out what a seatbelt can do to you that would annoy you so much that you would choose to risk your life instead.
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EDIT: Fek, spelt Where/Wear wrong in the title. Aah well, you get the drift.
Question: Why wouldn't you? For the life of me, I cannot work out what a seatbelt can do to you that would annoy you so much that you would choose to risk your life instead.
Shed any light??
EDIT: Fek, spelt Where/Wear wrong in the title. Aah well, you get the drift.
I tend to automatically put it on even if I'm just shuffling the car in or out of the garage. I can't really imagine why someone would drive on the road without one (assuming the car in question has them, obviously) although I think there has been scares about the effect on unborn babies when pregnant women wear them.
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I remember reading that taxi drivers aren't legally obligated to wear theirs, presumably because they have to get in and out of their cars so much. That said, saying as they spend so much time on the road, why they'd risk life and limb for the sake a few seconds convenience here and there seems odd.
Mastodon2 said:
I remember reading that taxi drivers aren't legally obligated to wear theirs, presumably because they have to get in and out of their cars so much. That said, saying as they spend so much time on the road, why they'd risk life and limb for the sake a few seconds convenience here and there seems odd.
It's more to stop the passenger strangling the driver with the belt while his pals nick his money and they all then leg it.It feels plain wrong to drive without a belt on, taxi drivers are obviously immune to laws of physics.
Mastodon2 said:
I remember reading that taxi drivers aren't legally obligated to wear theirs, presumably because they have to get in and out of their cars so much. That said, saying as they spend so much time on the road, why they'd risk life and limb for the sake a few seconds convenience here and there seems odd.
I believe private hire are exempt whilst they have a fare on board, Hackney Carriages all the time.Always,I Saw a Cortina hit a bus stop as a young teen before the law changed,
none of us wore them back then,my parents didn`t and neither did any one else it seems.
The guy came through the screen ten foot from us,He was apparently dead before he hit the screen,from internal damage.
As you`d imagine it was not nice and made such an impact that I have never once since that day not worn one,I wont let anyone in a car who refuses to wear one,
and neither will the handbrake come off until that seat belt light goes out.
Too much? maybe but that guys image serves as a good reminder.
A few years later I found my self repairing a then new BMW E30 that had hit a pedestrian and resulted in the passenger being ejected,I had to drive that car for 5 miles with hair and bits of flesh all flapping around on the broken screen and swirling around the car in the wind,twas hard work for me that one!
Plus without a seat belt the airbag is going to do enough damage on its own without the dash and steering wheel crushing you and slamming all your internal organs into one another.
none of us wore them back then,my parents didn`t and neither did any one else it seems.
The guy came through the screen ten foot from us,He was apparently dead before he hit the screen,from internal damage.
As you`d imagine it was not nice and made such an impact that I have never once since that day not worn one,I wont let anyone in a car who refuses to wear one,
and neither will the handbrake come off until that seat belt light goes out.
Too much? maybe but that guys image serves as a good reminder.
A few years later I found my self repairing a then new BMW E30 that had hit a pedestrian and resulted in the passenger being ejected,I had to drive that car for 5 miles with hair and bits of flesh all flapping around on the broken screen and swirling around the car in the wind,twas hard work for me that one!
Plus without a seat belt the airbag is going to do enough damage on its own without the dash and steering wheel crushing you and slamming all your internal organs into one another.
Edited by shoehorn on Thursday 12th September 09:35
As habit I put the belt on before I start the car, never had to remind myself/learn to do it... just always have.
I also regularly drive Dads 1960 Land Rover and that has no belts fitted at all... its never really bothered me.
AFBAICR I've never forgotten to wear a seatbelt in a car that's had them fitted.
I also regularly drive Dads 1960 Land Rover and that has no belts fitted at all... its never really bothered me.
AFBAICR I've never forgotten to wear a seatbelt in a car that's had them fitted.
SirTK said:
I was in a cab in Moscow many years ago and the driver wasn't wearing his belt. A cop pulled him over and fined him on the spot.
I'll never forget the car, it was rotten rusty on the INSIDE.
You should visit Aran Island. I was there once, the taxi driver was drunk and the taxi was missing a door lol.I'll never forget the car, it was rotten rusty on the INSIDE.
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