Seat Belt useage

[Napier_E36 0]

Im just curious - there have been a few crashes lately in which young people and speed and no seatbelts seem to be a factor. How frequently do you wear your seatbelt? I feel naked in a car without a seatbelt, especially after one saved me a trip thru the windscreen in a very serious head on crash.

Do you ask your passengers (or others in the car if your not driving) to belt up if they have forgotten? I usually do, and if anyone has a problem with it, I point out that I dont want to be pulled over because they dont want to wear their seatbelt...

Thoughts?

[bumpstop325 0]

100% wearage in my car and others

0% wearage in my truck

[Guest Andrew]

You'd have to be pretty tarded to not wear one. There is just no good reason.

[E30stz 0]

If you dont wear one and its on offer, you really deserve the consequences because its your own fault.

[Carl 3]

I feel real conscious if I don't put it on and always end up making it click. It's not because of the adverts and the law but more because it's been instilled into me since birth. I just feel naked without it.

[Surge 1]

Unless there was a good reason not to wear one I wouldn't ever consider not wearing one. Sit in car, put seatbelt on.

[BMW POWER 2]

Yup, its just a mandatory thing for me.

Open door

Sit down

Close door

Put seatbelt on

Put foot on accelerator and boomtown baby! (Yeah right tui time Emma)

[bimmer boy 21]

i always wear my seat belt and if im in a car with people not wearing one i make them put it on, the only time i didnt wear a seat belt was when we were driving out to that beach thing/ lake front at taupo in evans wagon .. but only cos there wasnt one

[*sic 1]

sheit nihgga.

i was a courier and i still crank that sh*t everytime.

being all round a cage your kinda wanting to stay put in the car and not be folding round them bars in a crash

[*RJ* 0]

I ALWAYS wear my seatbelts. I find the worst offenders are chicks in my car, they hate putting them on.

I often get the bullshit excuse from the back of the E36 - I couldn't find them. I won't drive until they have them on. As they are over 15 it's not my responsibility but if I was in a crash and something happened as a result I'd feel 100% responsible.

[OLLIE 26]

ALWAYS - even when i am really sh*t faced and half comatosed in a taxi i somehow manage to do it.

the one time i wasn't wearing a selt belt was in the back of a holden race car, because it was a race car there were'nt any, and we crashed, sideways, snapped a concrete powerpole in half and wrote of the uninsured car.

thank god for the hoodie and beanie i was wearing. saved me from many glass wounds.

[Gus 5]

poofters

harden up, its only a car crash

someones been watching too many mcdonalds ads

[318is 0]

If you care about your loved ones, or yourself, you will belt up.

If you think you're a mucha cool dude and look 'da sh*t' you won't.

And the mucho cool sh*t looking dude seems to be the one whom ends up killing others, or on a slab. Simple really.

100% belt up myself, ask passengers in my car if I don't know they do 100% to belt up.

They don't like it, It's the big middle finger and 'get out and walk bitch' from me.

[Sudo 0]

I always wear a seatbelt.

Only time I havn't was in Rarotonga, ask them what a seatbelt is there, they say "what?" lol

Oh and in the Limousine's when I went to Aus.

Edited August 2, 2005 by Sudo

[Carl 3]

ALWAYS - even when i am really sh*t faced and half comatosed in a taxi i somehow manage to do it.

Haha, that's so true, it's god damn it's amazing just how intelligent you are when you're drunk.

[aliluya 0]

I always wear seatbeat ... except sometimes when i'm in a hurry i put my seat belt on after i've started moving ...

I also always tell my passengers to belt up, but generally they all belt up when in my car anyway ..

[m325i 705]

ALWAYS - even when i am really sh*t faced and half comatosed in a taxi i somehow manage to do it.

Taxi is probably the most dangerous ride you will take.

[bumpstop325 0]

There isnt any law saying you have to wear your seatbelt in a HMV.

So i dont. Plus, from the stories i have heard in the trucking world, in most cases not all, its safer to not wear it than wear it. (in terms of escaping an accident).

[Napier_E36 0]

This is something that is of wonder to me - what happens if you are at fault in an accident, and the only person injured is one of your passengers who is not wearing a seat belt. Would you still be done for Careless/Dangerous/Reckless use of a motor vehicle causing injury because they chose not to wear their seatbelt, or would it just be a standard driving charge? (there is a difference!!)

Mind you, I suppose it would always come back to how the particular officer of the law is feeling and how you react to them -they definitely change their ways of dealing with you if dont want to cooperate!

Edited August 3, 2005 by Napier_E36

[318is 0]

This is something that is of wonder to me - what happens if you are at fault in an accident, and the only person injured is one of your passengers who is not wearing a seat belt. Would you still be done for Careless/Dangerous/Reckless use of a motor vehicle causing injury because they chose not to wear their seatbelt, or would it just be a standard driving charge? (there is a difference!!)

Mind you, I suppose it would always come back to how the particular officer of the law is feeling and how you react to them -they definitely change their ways of dealing with you if dont want to cooperate!

End of the day - the officer is a DRONE who thinks he/she knows the law. The Judge is the one who you must be concerned about.

There are so many loop holes to get out of a ticket if the copper/copperess dosen't do their job correctly.

Don't get me wrong. I respect all coppers when I talk to them face to face ( unless I know LEGALLY I am in the right ) but i know for a fact, it's a numbers building game in the force where inexperienced coppers fall short often.

Back to topic, if I was driving a truck, a seat belt would be optional. In a accident situation, non wearing truckie seatbelt drivers seem to come off better off.

I may be wrong, but you might be responsable for your passengers in a accident.

Bad lawyer = manslaughter??????

Wife is in bed, can't ask her ( shes a paralegal and knows or can check a book on this stuff )

[Williams BMW 0]

Actually, I always belt up in the front seats, but strangely, never in the back-seat.

Do you guy's belt up in the back-seat. ??

Edited August 4, 2005 by Williams BMW

[aliluya 0]

I always belt up in the back seat, cause when i'm in the back seat i'm riding in someone else's car, dunno how their driving is ... hah ..

[318is 0]

I always belt up in the back seat, cause when i'm in the back seat i'm riding in someone else's car, dunno how their driving is ... hah ..

I know what you mean. I was in the back of a car a few weks ago. The first time I haven't been behind the wheel for like, 10+ years. I always seem to be the driver.

I felt kinda at the mercy of the gods just sitting there with no control of the car.

Belted up before I was settled in the seat Worse was on the way back, I was in the front, felt like stomping on the imanginary pedals a few times HAHA.

[13b_chick 0]

well i voted most the time

seeing as i where it like alll the time but when it comes to the weekends, like cruiseing town or mission bay etc, between places i just jump in and forget cause most the time its just stand still traffic like down queen street on a friday or saturday nite...

otherwise im good the other 5 days of the week lolz

[OLLIE 26]

i love sitting in stand still traffic on queen street on a friday night it's so cool, i can ride my clutch, rev my car, cranks my oonce oooonce, use lotsa petrol, and i can do it all night. i dont even have to leave my car. I RULE

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