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Do you wear a seatbelt?

Do you wear a seatbelt?

  • Yes, always.

    Votes: 398 81.1%
  • No, never

    Votes: 29 5.9%
  • Depends (please post what it depends on)

    Votes: 64 13.0%

  • Total voters
    491
i ALWAYS wear my seat belt. even if i'm just moving a car around the driveway. it's something that my mother instilled in me when i was growing up, and it's always just been second nature to just do it. it takes less than 2 seconds and could save my life.

missouri law is that you must, regardless of where you're sitting, wear your seat belt.
 



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I used to never wear my seat belt, untill I worked my first wreck as a firefighter. Now I wear it all the time on the roads. offroadjosh, im with you, if I wrecked one of my depts new trucks id rather be killed in the wreck, the chief would probbly beat my ass with a shovel, lol
 






click it or ticket. i always wear mine. i think id rather come out with bruses in an accident rather than play a crash test dummy. ive seen bad wrecks in the colorado moutains. i wont drive the moutain road from durango, colorado to montrose, colorado (million dollar highway US ROUTE 550) if anyone has been thru it they know what i mean seatbelts, seatbelt, seatbelt, and the o **** bar. all you can do i pray. kinda a sad story... my girlfriends father had a accident up there in red moutain pass and a setbelt saved his life when his car went off the moutain. but unfortunatly it was winter and the rescue squad couldnt get to him fast enuf. it was said the seatbelt did save his life keeping him in the car but to much time went by in the rescue. after hearing that i always wear mine... you should to. it takes 2.5 seconds to put it on but a lifetime without your loved ones if you dont!
 
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Its like a reflex as soon as I get in.
 






I don't see any reason not to wear one. Especially since you can get a ticket for not wear one. Why risk getting a $100 ticket when it takes 1/2 a second to put it on and keeps you safe?
 






Yeah I've seen too many results of not wearing seatbelts...and the state law requires it. $45 (fee for not wearing seatbelt)in my pocket is better than the state's
 












Every time, all the time. Even just moving the car out of the driveway. The seatbelt gets clicked before I shift into gear.
 






This kind of has to do with this seat belt thread...A story to get you people not wearing seatbelts to wear seatbelts (and not pass on the left in no pass zone). Even though the seatsbelts probably wouldn't have done anything...

I wanted to post this story up....This happened during the summer up near monte cristo. No one was wearing seat belts.
This is from the Ogden Standard Examiner: 5 Young People Killed In Head-On Collision
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Weber County Sheriff's Capt. Klint Anderson said a Honda and Volkswagen were driving west on the two-lane highway. The two vehicles were passing each other while driving down Ogden Canyon.

"They knew each other," Anderson said. "It was a large group of family and friends, two carloads of young people on their way to come home and shower and then head back" to a camping site.

All those who died were riding in the Honda.

The Honda tried to pass the other vehicle near Monte Cristo in a no-passing area, and was hit head-on by a Ford F-350 pick-up truck, which ended up on top of the car, officials said.

"They were not wearing seatbelts, but the accident was so bad, the seatbelts probably would not have helped," Anderson said.

The truck was driven by Richard Krig, 22, and passengers included his wife, Alexandra Krig, 20, and an infant, all from the Ogden area, said Lt. Matt Bell of the Weber County Sheriff's Office.

Richard Krig suffered a shoulder injury. He and his wife were wearing seatbelts and the infant was in a car seat. None of them was seriously injured, officials said.

Ashley Bishop knew Vanessa Reyes as a classmate at Ben Lomond High School and, until recently, as a neighbor in the Bramblewood Apartments.

Bishop described Reyes as very outgoing and very happy. Bishop heard about the accident from a neighbor and said she had to repeat Reyes' name several times before she could comprehend the tragedy.

The crash occurred in front of the Ogden Eagles Trailer Park, about 100 S. 1000 East in Huntsville.

The trailer park is occupied almost year-round by local members of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

Residents said the crash was so loud and violent they could easily hear it from their camp sites.

"Everyone in the whole place heard it," said a man at the park who declined to give his name. "There are a lot of wrecks up here but I've never heard anything like this one. Usually before a wreck you'll hear tires screeching, but with this one, you just heard the most unbelievable crashing sound. It was a damn shame."

Roy resident Nancy Driscoll stays at the park throughout the warmer months. She sees auto accidents near the park two or three times a year, but said she had never seen or heard one like Saturday's wreck.

"I've never heard any like that in my life," she said. "It was horrifying. It just sounded like some kind of big explosion."

Driscoll said she and other park residents ran up to the road after hearing the accident.

"Right after you heard the wreck, you could hear a car full of kids just screaming, I mean screaming," she said. "Those poor kids were just sick. I helped one of the girls come down here and use the bathroom after it happened, but I didn't get her name or anything. It was just so chaotic."

Shortly after the road re-opened about 1 p.m., a memorial, with a makeshift cross and flowers, was set up at the crash site.

The number of fatalities and sheer destruction in Saturday's crash made it one of the worst in recent memory, said Lt. Philip Howell of the Weber County Sheriff's Office.

"It was a pretty horrific accident," he said.

The crash was similar to another accident in the Ogden Canyon on May 27 that claimed the life of 16-year-old Mayra Serrano and injured three others, said Howell. That crash happened when an Acura and Honda were racing westbound through the canyon.

"It was almost identical," said Howell of the two crashes. "One vehicle trying to pass another."

The accidents were also similar in that they involved young drivers and occurred in areas where passing is prohibited.


There are some horrific stories going along with this that aren't told in the article.
Richard Krig suffered a shoulder injury. He and his wife were wearing seatbelts and the infant was in a car seat. None of them was seriously injured, officials said.
Now if not for seat belts these people in the F-350 would have probably been ejected from the truck and/or suffered serious injuries.
 
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yup always, it doesn't feel right to me if I'm not buckled in. It feels like I am sliding around a lot! Especially with leather with a good cleaning lol.
 






THAT is why small cars are not as safe as big trucks. WTF is with the idiots who say otherwise???

oh, and yes i wear my seatbelt (unless i'm just driving around the ranch at low speeds or something)
 






TEXAS. It is now state law that all occupants of a vehicle wear a seat belt. However, I only wear one when I'm on the road. If I'm driving through a pasture or on a gravel road I generally don't.
 






Normally I wear my seat belt whenever I'm driving. However when I drive near water, like on dikes and near rivers and such, I never do. Makes for a quicker escape incase of a water landing.
 






Normally I wear my seat belt whenever I'm driving. However when I drive near water, like on dikes and near rivers and such, I never do. Makes for a quicker escape incase of a water landing.

I have never thought of that before. Thanks, I just noted it. You're a potential life saver here buddy. :thumbsup: :)
 












Always. No reason not to.

Ryan
 






I always wear a seatbelt. Have been doing that for decades now.

Last September I was involved in an accident where my work van ('00 RAM) was hit behind the rear RH wheel and rolled over twice. I walked out with minor injuries, no broken bones etc...the van was totaled, as was the W124 Benz that blew the red light and hit me...

YMMV.
 
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I got in a car accident when I was 23 driving a 91 escort. Got t-boned right in the drivers fender by a Dynasty driven by an older couple. The impact spun my car around and made me hit them a second time. Everything in my car went airborne and flying to the front of the car when they hit me. I had the carburetors for my bike sitting in the back seat and they busted the windshield. I was left with a back injury that still bothers me to this day and a long thin straight bruise from my left shoulder down across my chest. That bruise probably saved me from ending up a whole lot worse.

Always wear it, no reason not to.

Normally I wear my seat belt whenever I'm driving. However when I drive near water, like on dikes and near rivers and such, I never do. Makes for a quicker escape incase of a water landing.

You can get an emergency tool from walmart or any parts store that has a seatbelt cutter and a window breaker for under $5.
 






You can get an emergency tool from walmart or any parts store that has a seatbelt cutter and a window breaker for under $5.

Indeed you could, but if you've ever been upside down and under water in a vehicle you'll realize how disorienting it can be, and how quickly you loose items. I'm not saying you should always roll without seat belts, there is a situation where it is, in my opinion advisable, to roll without seat belts. Now the average wheeler here won't run into these situations. Overseas we tended to keep out belts off near canals and ravines for quick exits.
 



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Indeed you could, but if you've ever been upside down and under water in a vehicle you'll realize how disorienting it can be, and how quickly you loose items. I'm not saying you should always roll without seat belts, there is a situation where it is, in my opinion advisable, to roll without seat belts. Now the average wheeler here won't run into these situations. Overseas we tended to keep out belts off near canals and ravines for quick exits.

I've got to give it to you, some excellent points made in this post, and if read carefully, it gives just about every answer one needs for a particular situation...

God bless and good luck.

 






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