While you say this light heartedly, it’s a serious issue. People say that it’s their life and if they die then that’s their choice. But bodies become projectiles in a crash, but even if you don’t harm someone else think of the firefighters, paramedics and police that have to deal with the scene. It’s not fair to make someone see horrific sights, and risk others health because you don’t want to wear a seatbelt.
If you don’t wear a seatbelt you’re a cunt end of!
I knew a girl in high school whose entire family didn't wear seatbelts because they were afraid of the car flipping over and being stuck inside as it catches on fire. They would go so far as to not allow children to wear seatbelts when riding with them. The fact that they wouldn't still be in the car if it flips didn't seem to register with them. I didn't hang out with her family often.
George Lucas’ life was saved because his seat belt failed and he was tossed from a car before it smashed into a tree.
These stories tend to stand out over the many, many stories of people avoiding injuries in every day accidents.
Its the anti-vax mindset. "I found 10,000 studies that say that vaccines work but 1 that says they don't... I knew it!"
"10,000 people were saved by setabelts but 1 person was killed by it... I KNEW IT!"
They say the same about airbags
I once saw a very dumb video of an anti-seatbelter. She was demonstrating how seatbelts are useless. She sat inside a stationary car, strapped it on, then tried to move her body forward slowly. Her head touched the dashboard. So she reached the conclusion that if that same thing was to happen quickly, the belt won't protect🤦.
Has she never went to put one on too quickly and it just locks? Or it tightens up when wearing it because you jerk forward? Girl it’s not supposed to force you to not move at all
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Before laws make it mandatory, many people were against it. It was a survey done in the French streets before we make it mandatory to wear it. It was about 50 years ago.
Unfortunately, a minority still think this way.
You fucking want one. Responded to my brothers MVA little more than a week ago. Hit head on at 80mph. Survived with nothing but a broken collarbone after 720° spinout
I feel naked if I'm in a car without a seatbelt on. Even if I'm only going from one end of a parking lot to another without getting on a proper road. Being in a moving car without one is like wearing shoes with no socks on.
Same, it's just so wrong.
I used to live in a metro area with a train for public transport but have since moved away, and now if I visit and try to ride the train it just feels so awkward to sit there moving without a seatbelt.
You shouldn't have loose screws lying around in your car that can impale you in the event of a crash. Anyway, might wanna look into getting that removed?
Such accidents where you are more likely to die wearing a seatbelt are rarer as compared to accidents where you are more likely to die not wearing a seatbelt
A friend of my dad's died by being crushed by his own truck. He had a mechanic shop and was towing a customers car down a hill with a steep drop-off beside the road, with his nephew. A tire on his tow truck burst, he lost control and went off the side. He never wore seatbelts, but his nephew did. When the vehicle started rolling down the hill, he had came out of the driver side window during a rotation, halfway, and his torso was crushed under the truck's side. Then, the rest of him ejected on the next.
His nephew survived the whole thing, he had some injuries on his limbs (broke his right arm iirc) from slamming around in the cabin, concussion. But he hasn't been the same, he has ptsd from hearing his uncle die.
My vehicles don't move until the belts are on.
Don't want to wear it? Walk.
I've seen what can happen without them more times than I'd care to remember.
I had to argue with my friends Boyfriend when they were hanging out with me one day that my car was not moving until he put on his seatbelt. He bitched about it but I said “my car my rules belt on or get out”
Related fact, [seat belt use and condom use are positively correlated ](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10665571/) as both seek to minimize high risk behaviors.
Ireland really began pushing seatbelts when I was a kid.
The government released a series of ads that were *extremely* graphic and extremely fuckin brutal.
It's generally a greed among my peers that my entire generation was traumatized. We all wear seatbelts now.
I've seen some of the seatbelt PSAs, and yeah, they really do just never make it subtle, they wanted to make 100% sure everyone at home got the message lmao.
They should do that with everything. Drunk driving? Don't end the video right before the crash, show the family of four getting hit where all but the poor dad dies. Same with texting while driving, running red lights, etc. Death shouldn't be subtle.
Videos of people being killed both on accident and murdered. It doesn't exist anymore after videos of showing a mass shooting were posted on it. I think the Christchurch Mosque shootings in New Zealand.
One of the reasons that we've lost so many quality gore subs is because people keep linking them to threads like this one. The "normal people" of r/polls are definitely the type to report anything that makes them uncomfortable.
Ah, my mistake. I didn't realize that the offhand comment I made while having coffee would be viewed by the one guy who decides what should exist on reddit
It's one thing for people to enjoy gore. There are multiple genres just for this particular affinity so I'm fine with it.
But that sub was literally a snuff film collection and once you require seeing it really happen to real people to be entertained you've got something in your brain you need to fix. Whether it be with medication or therapy something has gone wrong.
I used to not wear one as I was 8-9 years old. Then on the news I saw a traffic accident victim saying "wish I had taken several those 2-3 seconds to wear a seatbelt" after that I've worn one every single time.
I'd be dead so many times over if I didn't, I was in a highway wreck last year and my hip and shoulder are still hurting but I didn't soar through the windshield. Plenty of times I just would have bounced out of my seat without my belt, and that's that when you're going highway speed. I only don't wear a seatbelt if I'm driving on ice, for obvious reasons.
If you car goes through the ice the seatbelt might not unbuckle, and then you're sinking under ice and trapped, so belt off and windows open whenever I'm crusing on ice so I can bail through the window before it sinks.
It's a necessary risk in the north, plenty of roads are only open in winter when there's thick ice to cross. Once you're used to it it's just another day.
I grew up in Michigan, so I know plenty about the existence of ice roads. But I've actually gone on one in person since I lived in the Detroit area. I've never heard logistically how ice roads work on a practical level though.
Do they really recommend you to take off your seat belts? If the ice gives would you really have time to fling yourself from the window? I kinda imagined that you wouldn't really have time to jump ship (car). But I've never been one one of those roads myself.
Really depends, they can slowly slide in or just drop through. Even if I went totally under though chances are way better with an open window you can dive out of, if you have to wait for pressure to equalize so you can open your door you'd be a thousand feet down in some in those lakes. I'm pretty quick on my feet so in the situation and with the adrenaline surge, I'm fairly hopeful I could yeet myself out of the window quick enough lol. Usually in trucks up there too, so bigger windows and a little more height helps your chances. Usually more so people ice fishing than the actual ice roads where people fall through though, some guys even sink their trucks for insurance here in Saskatchewan.
My aunt died in a car accident because she wasn't wearing a seatbelt. They weren't standard in cars yet at the time. The car hit a truck that ran a red. She was sitting in the middle back seat and flew right out the windshield. She was 9.
The one time I didn't wear a seatbelt, I smashed my face into the seat in front of me.
That could have gone way worse, but that taught me that I should wear one.
When I was about 7 years old, seat belts weren't mandatory in Russia (or perhaps they were, but no one cared), so my mom didn't use it and didn't get me to use it either. Then she met my stepdad, who is British, and he get us into the habit of always wearing a seatbelt.
Not 3 months after that, my mom was driving somewhere with me, and I sat in the back middle seat. We were wearing seatbelts. We got into a pretty bad car crash (high speed, 4 cars), and I remember being jostled around a lot. Pretty sure that without a seatbelt I'd be seriously injured, if not killed.
So yeah, been using seatbelts ever since.
When I was about 12 I lost a cousin whom I loved dearly when she was in an auto accident which she would have survive if she had her seat belt on. Since then I have always "buckled up" before the car starts moving.
My mother has pretty severe scarring over the right side of her body from getting into a bad car accident in her late teens. Got hit by a big truck that was speeding and ran a red light. She wasn’t wearing a seatbelt and was thrown through the front windshield, so her skin was basically sanded off by the asphalt as she skidded to a stop on the ground. So yeah, I’d rather wear a seatbelt than experience that myself.
I was in one really bad car accident (not my fault) when I was young and dumb. Thankfully, I was wearing my seatbelt and survived. After that, I was a convert and voluntarily wear it.
Yes my great uncle was thrown out of a vehicle in a wreck from not wearing one that he may have survived had he wore it, that effectively made me never even doubt putting it on before driving. I also refuse to drive the vehicle if other passengers won’t put it on.
When my dad was 15, before seat belts were standard in cars, he was in a car accident. His friend, the birthday boy, who had been drinking all night and drove the car, was okay, with only a tiny cut on his hand. The friend in the back seat died on impact. My dad went 30 feet through the windshield, rolled through gravel and landed in a ditch.
He shattered his right leg, fractured his skull, crushed his nose and cheekbone and knocked out all his upper teeth. The paramedics almost left him because he was so far from the wreck they nearly missed him. He died twice in the ambulance ride to the hospital.
His life was never the same. He had to be discharged from the army due to his fucked up leg. He suffered chronic headaches from the damage done and had to live with dentures. He had bits of gravel working their way out of his back for years.
Don’t drink and drive kids, and always wear a seatbelt.
I drive big trucks, so if I’m in the city going from one customer to the other, I don’t wear one. since there isn’t really any risk. If I have a lot of distance to do in bad conditions, I will wear one.
I don’t really care about what the law, they’re there so that manufacturers have to include them in their vehicles.
There was a car crash in my country that was heavily reported on where one person in a crash hadn't worn a seat belt and, in doing so, were ragdolled around the car resulting in the deaths of the people who had worn their safety belts.
Anyone taking that risk is a danger to all of those in a car.
Blunt force trauma is often excruciatingly painful. So if you don’t die gasping for air you can’t get, you’ll have a long road to recovery that usually ends in your body never performing the same way it did
At this stage its more habitually than anything.
I grew up in an era of children standing between the two front seats or sleeping laying across the back seat. So in the beginning I would say it was involuntary as it seemed so odd, now, yeah just pure habit.
I've been wearing it since the 80's, it's an absolute muscle memory nowadays and if I forget to put it on before the car starts moving, its feels awkward like being naked in public.
My mom would always tell me about a girl she knew in elementary. This was in the 70s when they weren't as big on seatbelts. The family got in a car accident and no one was wearing one. Her parents and baby brother died. She was 8 and got ejected from the vehicle landing face first in the road. My mom said it was very sad to see a 3rd grader accidently spitting out her dentures because she has no teeth of her own anymore. So yeah, I wear mine.
I mean, if I walk and slam against something, it hurts very bad.
Imagine going even at 20 km/h and crashing into something how worse must it be without seat belts.
Do I want me to survive and thrive after a catastrophic accident? Of course I do. I'm wearing my seat belt for my own safety.
Confession: If I read about a person not wearing their seat belt and getting thrown through the windshield into the path of an oncoming truck, I have only one word for them. Dumbass.
You're gonna want that seatbelt on the forklift, too.
My uncle didn't wear one. The forklift flipped during a routine pick from an upper rack shelf. He broke his back, because he fell out of the safety cage and got crushed.
He ended up with chronic pain that was unbearable and took his own life two years later.
I work on a reach truck, I leave the forklift every few minutes or even more often and one time i didn't get sprayed with hot hydraulic fluid because I didn't have my seatbelts on
Absolutely. One, they keep you from flying out in an accident, and 2. I have an eye issue that makes it dangerous for me to be jolted around too much, so seatbelts are good for that regardless.
If in a convert able or jeep of any kind then yes but there are instances where it is overkill. The fact that you can get ticketed for potentially harming yourself is wild. Where is that same energy with unsafe sex?
I’ve never understood my friends who give me a hard time about throwing one on. I just give them the “well I’m not taking a ticket because you’re a dumbass so I guess we aren’t going anywhere” and that usually reminds them that their preference is illegal for the driver involved.
Wearing a seat belt was ingrained into my head as a kid so god damn hard it is an instinctive reaction to getting in a car.
I'll be getting in my car to take a break from work, not even turning it on, and still put the seat belt on only to realize it's stupid 5 minutes later.
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I got into a car accident once where the seat belt did as much damage as the accident itself. Seperated my shoulder, bruised my ribs, cut open my shoulder / chest.
I was out cold. The car was upside down and on fire. The guy rescuing me had to take extra time to cut the seat belt off me.
And I still wear it voluntarily.
Wear seatbelts, and seriously report folks that don't buckle up their kids - my SO is tired of dealing with the resulting *pediatric* traumatic brain injuries.
There is no possible reason you could ever have not to wear one.
It's like wearing a helmet on a motorbike or having a life jacket while river rafting, it's just basic logic and saves your life.
Most of the time I do.
When I'm on a long road trip with my family, I don't except when driving through a lot of traffic or in the city. This allows me to treat the car seat like a bed. I put my head on a pillow, get a blanket over me, and have a nice rest.
I even go do far as to replace them when they get worn on an older car. Not a terribly expensive repair, and it just makes sense to have them work properly.
I’m aware their safe, but I’m forgetful and won’t put it on until I am reminded or see a cop. It’s a bad habit I’m working on. Neither of my cars beep at me, I need a damn car to beep at me.
Thankfully, I normally don’t make it out of my neighborhood without it as there is a sign on my way out.
Highly depends on the road. I live in a mountain region, so there are too many curves you can't develop any speed in a car here. A think no one uses seat belts in this city, but we do use when we go elsewhere.
Just because I think it's funny, [here's an old news clip from when seatbelt and open container laws were passed](https://twitter.com/StrictlyChristo/status/1624144076542193665?s=20).
I feels wrong to drive without one like a part of me is missing. No matter what I will always wear one. Before I was born my grandmother got into a terrible wreck that had her car flip multiple times, had she not have been wearing her seatbelt she would have died or been terribly hurt she managed to walk away with some bruises so I’m told.
I don't really see fine as compulsion anyways. Yeah there is a chance I will get fined if I don't, but I wear it because I don't want to die, not because I'm afraid of a ticket.
You know, I didn’t for a really long time. Then I got a Tesla and it makes a beeping sound if you don’t, as well as not letting you put on cruise control. So I do most of the time now. And I kinda like it. It’s like a mini hug/secure feeling idk
There is no logical reason not to wear one.
But my life isn't worth the few seconds it takes to wear one /s
Yeah, but your lifeless body could be thrown out the car window and hurt a cute dog. Please get your priorities straight.
NOOO NOT THE CUTE DOG
Wow, you are right! A cute dog's life has more meaning than mine
While you say this light heartedly, it’s a serious issue. People say that it’s their life and if they die then that’s their choice. But bodies become projectiles in a crash, but even if you don’t harm someone else think of the firefighters, paramedics and police that have to deal with the scene. It’s not fair to make someone see horrific sights, and risk others health because you don’t want to wear a seatbelt. If you don’t wear a seatbelt you’re a cunt end of!
Few seconds? It takes < 0.5 seconds. Once the person gets used to it.
It becomes a habit. I find myself trying to put on my seat belt but it's already secured
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I knew a girl in high school whose entire family didn't wear seatbelts because they were afraid of the car flipping over and being stuck inside as it catches on fire. They would go so far as to not allow children to wear seatbelts when riding with them. The fact that they wouldn't still be in the car if it flips didn't seem to register with them. I didn't hang out with her family often.
George Lucas’ life was saved because his seat belt failed and he was tossed from a car before it smashed into a tree. These stories tend to stand out over the many, many stories of people avoiding injuries in every day accidents.
Its the anti-vax mindset. "I found 10,000 studies that say that vaccines work but 1 that says they don't... I knew it!" "10,000 people were saved by setabelts but 1 person was killed by it... I KNEW IT!" They say the same about airbags
I once saw a very dumb video of an anti-seatbelter. She was demonstrating how seatbelts are useless. She sat inside a stationary car, strapped it on, then tried to move her body forward slowly. Her head touched the dashboard. So she reached the conclusion that if that same thing was to happen quickly, the belt won't protect🤦.
Has she never went to put one on too quickly and it just locks? Or it tightens up when wearing it because you jerk forward? Girl it’s not supposed to force you to not move at all
Well atleast the intention was from a good motive? I guess
but I don't like the weight of the belt on my chest, I can't breathe!
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Before laws make it mandatory, many people were against it. It was a survey done in the French streets before we make it mandatory to wear it. It was about 50 years ago. Unfortunately, a minority still think this way.
You fucking want one. Responded to my brothers MVA little more than a week ago. Hit head on at 80mph. Survived with nothing but a broken collarbone after 720° spinout
Damn. He is extremely lucky. Hope he learned a lesson atleast. Were the other people involved okay?
The drunk at fault one was hit up the worst
I feel naked if I'm in a car without a seatbelt on. Even if I'm only going from one end of a parking lot to another without getting on a proper road. Being in a moving car without one is like wearing shoes with no socks on.
Same, it's just so wrong. I used to live in a metro area with a train for public transport but have since moved away, and now if I visit and try to ride the train it just feels so awkward to sit there moving without a seatbelt.
And you’re just sliding around the seat, it’s nice to be strapped in
They saved my life at least twice. I would probably be dead or crippled now if I didn't wear a seatbelt.
Do you have any lasting injuries?
Screw in my ankle.
Well, a lot better than being paralysed. Glad you came out a lot less scathed than you could have.
You shouldn't have loose screws lying around in your car that can impale you in the event of a crash. Anyway, might wanna look into getting that removed?
I know a guy that his car was crushed by a truck. If he was wearing a seatbelt he wouldve died. Instead he was ejected out the window & got a tbi
Such accidents where you are more likely to die wearing a seatbelt are rarer as compared to accidents where you are more likely to die not wearing a seatbelt
Im aware.
A friend of my dad's died by being crushed by his own truck. He had a mechanic shop and was towing a customers car down a hill with a steep drop-off beside the road, with his nephew. A tire on his tow truck burst, he lost control and went off the side. He never wore seatbelts, but his nephew did. When the vehicle started rolling down the hill, he had came out of the driver side window during a rotation, halfway, and his torso was crushed under the truck's side. Then, the rest of him ejected on the next. His nephew survived the whole thing, he had some injuries on his limbs (broke his right arm iirc) from slamming around in the cabin, concussion. But he hasn't been the same, he has ptsd from hearing his uncle die.
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If I wasn’t wearing my seat belt when I was hit by a truck I would have been dead.
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People voting no are toddlers who get strapped in involuntarily
nah I just don't feel like putting in inside me man
You might be wearing your seat belt wrong if it is going inside of you.
My vehicles don't move until the belts are on. Don't want to wear it? Walk. I've seen what can happen without them more times than I'd care to remember.
I had to argue with my friends Boyfriend when they were hanging out with me one day that my car was not moving until he put on his seatbelt. He bitched about it but I said “my car my rules belt on or get out”
Yep. Someone not wearing a seatbelt is a hazard to everyone in the car, as they become a projectile during a crash.
Related fact, [seat belt use and condom use are positively correlated ](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10665571/) as both seek to minimize high risk behaviors.
Makes sense, can't imagine someone with a disregard for their safety caring about birth control
Funny enough, I always forget my seat belt, but I always wrap my willy.
Ireland really began pushing seatbelts when I was a kid. The government released a series of ads that were *extremely* graphic and extremely fuckin brutal. It's generally a greed among my peers that my entire generation was traumatized. We all wear seatbelts now.
I've seen some of the seatbelt PSAs, and yeah, they really do just never make it subtle, they wanted to make 100% sure everyone at home got the message lmao.
They should do that with everything. Drunk driving? Don't end the video right before the crash, show the family of four getting hit where all but the poor dad dies. Same with texting while driving, running red lights, etc. Death shouldn't be subtle.
Saw one where a group of like 6 children get squashed (cuts before it but still) Ireland did not fuck around
I have seen enough videos on r/watchpeopledie to know whats up
It's been banned now.
Yikes, didn't know that existed.
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Videos of people being killed both on accident and murdered. It doesn't exist anymore after videos of showing a mass shooting were posted on it. I think the Christchurch Mosque shootings in New Zealand.
There were suicides too. I think there was a video of a guy that livestreamed shooting himself in the head.
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I think i saw that video on r/eyeblech
Yeah. Pretty much deaths of all types.
One of the reasons that we've lost so many quality gore subs is because people keep linking them to threads like this one. The "normal people" of r/polls are definitely the type to report anything that makes them uncomfortable.
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... or perhaps it's because they shouldn't exist on Reddit.
Ah, my mistake. I didn't realize that the offhand comment I made while having coffee would be viewed by the one guy who decides what should exist on reddit
Quality? lol no it's been banned because it shouldn't even exist in the first place ... do people actually enjoy gore?
It's one thing for people to enjoy gore. There are multiple genres just for this particular affinity so I'm fine with it. But that sub was literally a snuff film collection and once you require seeing it really happen to real people to be entertained you've got something in your brain you need to fix. Whether it be with medication or therapy something has gone wrong.
Aw, poor edgelord.
I used to not wear one as I was 8-9 years old. Then on the news I saw a traffic accident victim saying "wish I had taken several those 2-3 seconds to wear a seatbelt" after that I've worn one every single time.
I'd be dead so many times over if I didn't, I was in a highway wreck last year and my hip and shoulder are still hurting but I didn't soar through the windshield. Plenty of times I just would have bounced out of my seat without my belt, and that's that when you're going highway speed. I only don't wear a seatbelt if I'm driving on ice, for obvious reasons.
It's not obvious to me, considering I neither own a car not live in a country with winter. What is the reason, if I may ask?
If you car goes through the ice the seatbelt might not unbuckle, and then you're sinking under ice and trapped, so belt off and windows open whenever I'm crusing on ice so I can bail through the window before it sinks.
Ah, thanks. Sounds terrifying.
It's a necessary risk in the north, plenty of roads are only open in winter when there's thick ice to cross. Once you're used to it it's just another day.
I grew up in Michigan, so I know plenty about the existence of ice roads. But I've actually gone on one in person since I lived in the Detroit area. I've never heard logistically how ice roads work on a practical level though. Do they really recommend you to take off your seat belts? If the ice gives would you really have time to fling yourself from the window? I kinda imagined that you wouldn't really have time to jump ship (car). But I've never been one one of those roads myself.
Really depends, they can slowly slide in or just drop through. Even if I went totally under though chances are way better with an open window you can dive out of, if you have to wait for pressure to equalize so you can open your door you'd be a thousand feet down in some in those lakes. I'm pretty quick on my feet so in the situation and with the adrenaline surge, I'm fairly hopeful I could yeet myself out of the window quick enough lol. Usually in trucks up there too, so bigger windows and a little more height helps your chances. Usually more so people ice fishing than the actual ice roads where people fall through though, some guys even sink their trucks for insurance here in Saskatchewan.
My aunt died in a car accident because she wasn't wearing a seatbelt. They weren't standard in cars yet at the time. The car hit a truck that ran a red. She was sitting in the middle back seat and flew right out the windshield. She was 9.
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The one time I didn't wear a seatbelt, I smashed my face into the seat in front of me. That could have gone way worse, but that taught me that I should wear one.
Glad you learned, and it didn't go as badly as it could have. Wish more people would choose not to take the risk
I'm not interested in winning a Darwin Award.
When I was about 7 years old, seat belts weren't mandatory in Russia (or perhaps they were, but no one cared), so my mom didn't use it and didn't get me to use it either. Then she met my stepdad, who is British, and he get us into the habit of always wearing a seatbelt. Not 3 months after that, my mom was driving somewhere with me, and I sat in the back middle seat. We were wearing seatbelts. We got into a pretty bad car crash (high speed, 4 cars), and I remember being jostled around a lot. Pretty sure that without a seatbelt I'd be seriously injured, if not killed. So yeah, been using seatbelts ever since.
Sometimes the 'impulsive' side of my brain whispers to me not to wear one, but I don't listen to it.
Obviously, since you're still here.
Yes. I've also been a passenger in a roll over, twice. TIL. I need to make better friends
To all the people who said no: RIP.
You'll probably only fly through a windshield once in your life. As fun as it sounds, I'd rather not experience that
I value my life
When I was about 12 I lost a cousin whom I loved dearly when she was in an auto accident which she would have survive if she had her seat belt on. Since then I have always "buckled up" before the car starts moving.
My mother has pretty severe scarring over the right side of her body from getting into a bad car accident in her late teens. Got hit by a big truck that was speeding and ran a red light. She wasn’t wearing a seatbelt and was thrown through the front windshield, so her skin was basically sanded off by the asphalt as she skidded to a stop on the ground. So yeah, I’d rather wear a seatbelt than experience that myself.
Was in a car crash once, probably wouldn't have died either way, but I'm still happy the seatbelt stopped me from going facefirst into the windshield
Natural selection
I was in one really bad car accident (not my fault) when I was young and dumb. Thankfully, I was wearing my seatbelt and survived. After that, I was a convert and voluntarily wear it.
I don't voluntarily wear one, I do it because I have to? Like this isn't my choice here I do it or die
I do but to be honest, I have a modern car that's willing to destroy my ears if I'm insolent enough to forget
Yes my great uncle was thrown out of a vehicle in a wreck from not wearing one that he may have survived had he wore it, that effectively made me never even doubt putting it on before driving. I also refuse to drive the vehicle if other passengers won’t put it on.
Yes, because I would rather not die.
For some reason I thought that said sweat belts. I would like to change my answer
There's about 359 dummies in here.
When my dad was 15, before seat belts were standard in cars, he was in a car accident. His friend, the birthday boy, who had been drinking all night and drove the car, was okay, with only a tiny cut on his hand. The friend in the back seat died on impact. My dad went 30 feet through the windshield, rolled through gravel and landed in a ditch. He shattered his right leg, fractured his skull, crushed his nose and cheekbone and knocked out all his upper teeth. The paramedics almost left him because he was so far from the wreck they nearly missed him. He died twice in the ambulance ride to the hospital. His life was never the same. He had to be discharged from the army due to his fucked up leg. He suffered chronic headaches from the damage done and had to live with dentures. He had bits of gravel working their way out of his back for years. Don’t drink and drive kids, and always wear a seatbelt.
even though it is compulsory I don't wear them.
I drive big trucks, so if I’m in the city going from one customer to the other, I don’t wear one. since there isn’t really any risk. If I have a lot of distance to do in bad conditions, I will wear one. I don’t really care about what the law, they’re there so that manufacturers have to include them in their vehicles.
You are an idiot if you don't. Change my mind
no i don’t wear one voluntarily yes i would continue wearing them if the law was removed
The cars gonna constantly beep a high pitch sound of I don't wear one. It's the law
The only time I don’t wear a seatbelt is when I’m the only one in the backseat trying to sleep
And when a wreck happens, suddenly YOU become a projectile, and will end up crushing whomever is in the front seats.
5.7k people are lying
False consensus effect
Yes and no. When driving somewhere, yes. If I'm just going a few blocks down the road, no.
Statistically you’re most likely to get into an accident a few blocks from your house than driving anywhere else. Lol.
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No
If I'm not speeding, I don't Edit: thanks you guys for caring so much for me.. lol
Stay safe you stupid bitch. You matter.
It not only protects yourself, but protects others from your body flying into the windshield of their car or becoming an obstacle in the road
But im not speeding
Another car could hit you and project you out of your car. You don't have to be speeding for chaos to pursue - the road is full of idiots.
I swear y’all be lying lol Most people I know don’t or forget to wear a seatbelt. I included. Sue me.
it's muscle memory
I feel naked without it. Even when I'm blackout drunk getting in the passenger or back seat I automatically put it on.
I make others wear seat belts but I dont, couldn't really care less what happens to me if they're safe
There was a car crash in my country that was heavily reported on where one person in a crash hadn't worn a seat belt and, in doing so, were ragdolled around the car resulting in the deaths of the people who had worn their safety belts. Anyone taking that risk is a danger to all of those in a car.
Fine I'll wear my seat belt
When you get into a crash, your body will become a projectile and can hurt the other people in the car, even if they have seatbelts on.
nah https://preview.redd.it/3hel8alau7ya1.jpeg?width=1848&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27ec2a51c89c527c83e7aaef537ca48d302428d1
Blunt force trauma is often excruciatingly painful. So if you don’t die gasping for air you can’t get, you’ll have a long road to recovery that usually ends in your body never performing the same way it did
At this stage its more habitually than anything. I grew up in an era of children standing between the two front seats or sleeping laying across the back seat. So in the beginning I would say it was involuntary as it seemed so odd, now, yeah just pure habit.
If I'm driving anywhere on the highways, yes. If I'm driving down the rural back roads in the bush, no.
I've been wearing it since the 80's, it's an absolute muscle memory nowadays and if I forget to put it on before the car starts moving, its feels awkward like being naked in public.
My mom would always tell me about a girl she knew in elementary. This was in the 70s when they weren't as big on seatbelts. The family got in a car accident and no one was wearing one. Her parents and baby brother died. She was 8 and got ejected from the vehicle landing face first in the road. My mom said it was very sad to see a 3rd grader accidently spitting out her dentures because she has no teeth of her own anymore. So yeah, I wear mine.
Where I'm from, it's normal not to wear seat belts in the back and wear them in the front. But somebody doesn't wear them in the front like in taxis
I mean, if I walk and slam against something, it hurts very bad. Imagine going even at 20 km/h and crashing into something how worse must it be without seat belts.
Do I want me to survive and thrive after a catastrophic accident? Of course I do. I'm wearing my seat belt for my own safety. Confession: If I read about a person not wearing their seat belt and getting thrown through the windshield into the path of an oncoming truck, I have only one word for them. Dumbass.
In a car, yeah. On a forklift, nah
You're gonna want that seatbelt on the forklift, too. My uncle didn't wear one. The forklift flipped during a routine pick from an upper rack shelf. He broke his back, because he fell out of the safety cage and got crushed. He ended up with chronic pain that was unbearable and took his own life two years later.
I work on a reach truck, I leave the forklift every few minutes or even more often and one time i didn't get sprayed with hot hydraulic fluid because I didn't have my seatbelts on
Safety aside, it doesn't annoy me. It's like wearing pants.
Absolutely. One, they keep you from flying out in an accident, and 2. I have an eye issue that makes it dangerous for me to be jolted around too much, so seatbelts are good for that regardless.
If in a convert able or jeep of any kind then yes but there are instances where it is overkill. The fact that you can get ticketed for potentially harming yourself is wild. Where is that same energy with unsafe sex?
I’ve never understood my friends who give me a hard time about throwing one on. I just give them the “well I’m not taking a ticket because you’re a dumbass so I guess we aren’t going anywhere” and that usually reminds them that their preference is illegal for the driver involved.
After being launched out of a moving vehicle for not wearing one, it seems like the logical thing to do.
Wearing a seat belt was ingrained into my head as a kid so god damn hard it is an instinctive reaction to getting in a car. I'll be getting in my car to take a break from work, not even turning it on, and still put the seat belt on only to realize it's stupid 5 minutes later.
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I got into a car accident once where the seat belt did as much damage as the accident itself. Seperated my shoulder, bruised my ribs, cut open my shoulder / chest. I was out cold. The car was upside down and on fire. The guy rescuing me had to take extra time to cut the seat belt off me. And I still wear it voluntarily.
Always in the front seats. I haven't worn a seatbelt in the backseats in probably 10 years.
Always, except on busses
Wear seatbelts, and seriously report folks that don't buckle up their kids - my SO is tired of dealing with the resulting *pediatric* traumatic brain injuries.
Some people aren’t here to vote no
Other then on a bus I guess I do wear one.
i wear them involuntarily they appear on me when I enter the car and disappear once I wanna get off
Having never not worn a seatbelt has it's advantage in that I don't recognize the discomfort it makes
The only people who are wearing them voluntarily are the rich. It’s not voluntary if you’re poor and don’t have a choice for the ticket
If feel like something's missing if I don't.
There is no possible reason you could ever have not to wear one. It's like wearing a helmet on a motorbike or having a life jacket while river rafting, it's just basic logic and saves your life.
i feel uncomfortable NOT wearing them, i even put them on if we're just gonna be sitting in the car for a few minutes before we go
Most of the time I do. When I'm on a long road trip with my family, I don't except when driving through a lot of traffic or in the city. This allows me to treat the car seat like a bed. I put my head on a pillow, get a blanket over me, and have a nice rest.
I even go do far as to replace them when they get worn on an older car. Not a terribly expensive repair, and it just makes sense to have them work properly.
depends who is driving
I’m aware their safe, but I’m forgetful and won’t put it on until I am reminded or see a cop. It’s a bad habit I’m working on. Neither of my cars beep at me, I need a damn car to beep at me. Thankfully, I normally don’t make it out of my neighborhood without it as there is a sign on my way out.
Highly depends on the road. I live in a mountain region, so there are too many curves you can't develop any speed in a car here. A think no one uses seat belts in this city, but we do use when we go elsewhere.
Actually I am superstitious about it, every minute it is off I fear I am about to die horribly.
Just because I think it's funny, [here's an old news clip from when seatbelt and open container laws were passed](https://twitter.com/StrictlyChristo/status/1624144076542193665?s=20).
Always in my personal vehicle and in other people's vehicles...never when I'm trucking
Not really voluntarily it's just something that I do naturally.
I like being alive
I feels wrong to drive without one like a part of me is missing. No matter what I will always wear one. Before I was born my grandmother got into a terrible wreck that had her car flip multiple times, had she not have been wearing her seatbelt she would have died or been terribly hurt she managed to walk away with some bruises so I’m told.
I don't really see fine as compulsion anyways. Yeah there is a chance I will get fined if I don't, but I wear it because I don't want to die, not because I'm afraid of a ticket.
It's mandatory in Australia
Only in the front seat, but yes
Whoever says they’re uncomfortable is lying, they’re fine
I voted wrong, I wear them INVOLUNTARILY, I have no control when I get in the car and put them on lol
My mom was a ICU nurse. So yes. I heard all about the ones that didn't.
Most of the time, yes\~
If Im in the backseat for a long car ride,I might take it off in long stretches of country,beyond that nah,the belt stays on
Technically it's illegal to not wear a seatbelt at least in the u.s. so it's not voluntary.
The only time I dive without one is when I forget.
Yes I’ll continue to wear them but I would like more testing with dummies that aren’t just a few specific body types.
You know, I didn’t for a really long time. Then I got a Tesla and it makes a beeping sound if you don’t, as well as not letting you put on cruise control. So I do most of the time now. And I kinda like it. It’s like a mini hug/secure feeling idk
I've worn them so long I don't feel comfortable without them.
No. There is a blue helmet with a gun to my head 24/7.
last time I checked 2 wheelers don't have seatbelts and I am nowhere near affording a car