Do You Wear A Seatbelt In The Back?
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So after a few drinks at a party last night we drove my mum home, she sat in the front with the Mrs driving and I sat in the back of the Passat with my daughter, something that I've never done in 7 years of owning the car. My daughter said to me after about 15 minutes, 'Dad, put your seat belt on'. After belting up I realised that this was the first time I'd worn a seat belt in the back of a car before! It did feel odd. Is it law to wear one in the back?
Lordbenny said:
So after a few drinks at a party last night we drove my mum home, she sat in the front with the Mrs driving and I sat in the back of the Passat with my daughter, something that I've never done in 7 years of owning the car. My daughter said to me after about 15 minutes, 'Dad, put your seat belt on'. After belting up I realised that this was the first time I'd worn a seat belt in the back of a car before! It did feel odd. Is it law to wear one in the back?
Jesus Christ.Why on earth would it be a law in the front and not the back? If anything, you can do more damage in the back.
Lordbenny said:
It did feel odd. Is it law to wear one in the back?
Note that for adults, it's they that get done for not wearing a seat belt. If it's kids in the back, then the driver gets done.I agree, though, it does feel a bit weird - I guess that's probably an age thing.
Edited by Deva Link on Sunday 3rd March 19:32
Until I was about 17 I never ever wore a seatbelt because most people who drove me around did not wear them
Unusually it was only when my friends started getting licences did they all insist on me wearing a belt whether at front or back
Of course now it is just habit and TBF all those people that didnt wear belts before do now.
Unusually it was only when my friends started getting licences did they all insist on me wearing a belt whether at front or back
Of course now it is just habit and TBF all those people that didnt wear belts before do now.
GroundEffect said:
Jesus Christ.
Why on earth would it be a law in the front and not the back? If anything, you can do more damage in the back.
It's not such a stupid question and it was that way for quite some time*. I regularly see people (mainly Asians) with their kids un-tethered in the back. Hanging off the head rests in the middle of the two front seats and clowning around isn't a rare sight at all.Why on earth would it be a law in the front and not the back? If anything, you can do more damage in the back.
Edit * 8yrs according to the last poster.
Edited by Evoluzione on Sunday 3rd March 19:42
Evoluzione said:
GroundEffect said:
Jesus Christ.
Why on earth would it be a law in the front and not the back? If anything, you can do more damage in the back.
It's not such a stupid question and it was that way for quite some time. I regularly see people (mainly Asians) with their kids un-tethered in the back. Hanging off the head rests in the middle of the two front seats and clowning around isn't a rare sight at all.Why on earth would it be a law in the front and not the back? If anything, you can do more damage in the back.
The odd thing is I feel weird not wearing a seatbelt in the front, but weird wearing one in the back. On the odd occasion I do get in the back of the car, I don't naturally reach for it.
Evoluzione said:
GroundEffect said:
Jesus Christ.
Why on earth would it be a law in the front and not the back? If anything, you can do more damage in the back.
It's not such a stupid question and it was that way for quite some time. I regularly see people (mainly Asians) with their kids un-tethered in the back. Hanging off the head rests in the middle of the two front seats and clowning around isn't a rare sight at all.Why on earth would it be a law in the front and not the back? If anything, you can do more damage in the back.
...but in the back you'll take yourself AND the person sitting in front of you out too.
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