Do you always wear your seatbelt when driving or riding in a car?

[msc545]

[CriminallyInsane]

I didn't always but I do now

[thegreenyogi]

Always.

[Melanie0001]

Nope never wore my seatbelt and been driving Since I'm 16... My mom never wore a seatbelt either so in my childhood I never gave a damn about seatbelt even in my friends parents cars they never said anything because it's just a seatbelt.

Wear it don't wear it it's your own choice I choose to not wearing my seatbelt my friend back in 2022 annoyed me she said did you forget to put your seatbelt? Like 8 times I said NO. I don't want to wear my seatbelt I know I'm driving without wearing one we have 2 hours remaining so if you are not ok with that and the fact I'm barefoot or driving with my socks then call a taxi she never complained again

[msc545]

I always wear my seat belt. I see up front and up close what has happened to people that didn't wear their seat belt and got into an accident, so I'm not about to become one of those victims..

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

In the 90s, that one guy told me he never fastens the seat belt because he heard that it saved someone, being ejected from the car, instead of crushing their heads on the wheel.

I think it's as reasonable an opinion as saying it's safer to wear a full body armour in the streets in case of terrorist attack.

[msc545]

How often do you think people are ejected from the car?

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Oh god, I don't think about that, I don't want lol

[msc545]

Not wearing your seatbelt because you might possibly someday get ejected by the car is severely stupid, considering how many other accidents occur with regularity where the seatbelt, in fact, would save you.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Ah
Well, now I see that my initial analogy failed to deliver then lol

[msc545]

I take it as an analogy I took as a sort of weird reason for not wearing a seatbelt. Do you mean something different by it?

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Ah then it delivered, but... In that case, why did you bother explaining safety when it was obvious lol?

[msc545]

Because it obviously wasn't obvious.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

... Which puts us back to how my initial failed 😂

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

*initial analogy

[Staximus]

Always unless I’m driving really slow in the parking lot at work to go get some tools from the storage locker. Not wearing a seatbelt actually saved my life when I rolled my 1973 blazer. The upper driver’s side corner of the windshield frame was smashed down to where the side of my head would have been.

[RandomGirl42]

Since I live in an area that only has one tar road, no, I don't. I will wear it before I get into any town where there might be a cop tho.

[msc545]

How does driving on a tar road make you safer so you don't have to wear i?

[RandomGirl42]

I worded that really bad. I meant I drive more on dirt roads then tar, so it's slower and less traffic and so now I don't and prolly part of it is some rebellious streak 'cuz I don't like that it's law.

[RandomGirl42]

now = no... lol, I can type , really! 🤣

[msc545]

You won't like the injuries you get, even in a very slow front-end accident, from the airbags in your car and from the collision of your head with the steering wheel. Please wear your seat belt.

[msc545]

So you think you can only get hurt or hurt somebody else if you're only driving above a certain speed, I guess. Is that right?

[RandomGirl42]

No. I've hit a deer before at a low speed and that wasn't very pretty but he wasn't wearing a seatbelt either.

[msc545]

If you get into an accident and you're not wearing a seat belt, you're going to get badly hurt. Please wear your seat belt whenever you get in the car or whenever you start to drive, and leave it on until you're finished driving. This is an issue of safety.

[goaded]

Yes, absolutely always.

From well before the cars started going ping! at you if you didn't, too. I recently read that that simple ping! increased the usage of seatbelts more than laws requiring them did.

[Orion84]

Yep, 100% of the time, and I refuse to drive anyone else if they aren't also wearing theirs.

[douride2]

Yes always. It is a couple $100 fine & 3 points on your license here. Also I it most likely saved my life once.

[MisterWack]

Keeps ya safe! Better safe than sorry.

[NathanDavis]

yes I do... people crazy out there

[jamesgoldman]

Not on private land but most of that transport on in with the cargo at leas than 10mph

[msc545]

Do you think that if you have an accident at less than 10 mph, it somehow will not injure you?

[jamesgoldman]

No but I don't care if it kills me or finished paralyzing me at this point

[msc545]

What about the people who care about you, and what about the people who will have to care for you if it kills you or finishes or paralyzes you? You care about their welfare at all, or just your own?

[jamesgoldman]

We'll all be executed by the world government in the next 4 years

[msc545]

Whether or not that's true is not clear, but it seems to me that as a responsible person, you could put a seat belt on.

[jamesgoldman]

I'm in the trailer, no belts there

[msc545]

Maybe have some put in there, please.

[jamesgoldman]

Not my trailer

[msc545]

Well, do something about this problem. That would be a dumb way to die or get even more crippled.

[jamesgoldman]

I've already planned my exit

[LiamS95]

it has become a habit so yes!

[7Phoenix7]

I always do yes… car accidents are no joke.

[msc545]

I'm glad I at least one person understands the necessity for this.

[888theGreat]

I hold it mostly

[loveyouoak]

No, I don't.

[msc545]

Why not?

[Redstang88]

Not necessarily

[msc545]

Why not?

[Redstang88]

Depends on chances of getting caught. On dirt roads I often don’t

[msc545]

How about the chances of getting into an accident?

[Redstang88]

I don’t believe in “accidents”. I’m confident in my driving, other people are the unknown hence why I do wear it around other traffic

[msc545]

I see, so if you get into an accident, it's automatically not your fault, is that the idea?

[Redstang88]

Of course not I’ve made mistakes like we all do, I just avoid the kind of catastrophic fuck ups that get people killed. My job means my life, my crew and millions of dollars of equipment and cargo depend on my judgement and situation awareness, driving is just the same.

[msc545]

I sincerely hope you don't get into an accident, because that's when everything turns to shit. Chaos is the order of the day, and whatever happens to you happens, and you have no control over it whatsoever.

[Anonymous]

Nope never