Seat belts yes or no?

Question

I never wear mine..

Answer 1

Seat belts is a very controversial issue.. sometimes they help in saving people and unfortunately they also sometimes hurt people..

Personally I always wear my seat belt and I don't allow the car to move until everyone is buckled up but contrary to popular belief it isn't completely the law to wear a seat belt... you would have to check with your local DPS/DMV to find out the state law, but in Texas the law is that the Driver and the front passenger must always be buckled, but passengers in the back seat don't have to be buckled after the age of 15...

Answer 2

I believe that seatbelts should be a matter of choice for adults. I agree that many have been saved by seatbelts but seatbelts can also cause damage as well. That is why some states have exemptions.

For instance, most wrecks happen at about 35 miles an hour or less. People with disabilites such as myself can recieve more damage from the seatblet at this speed than the wreck. To make my point, I was in a wreck in which I was hit by a car going at about 40MPH. I was not wearing a seatlbelt and the only damage I recieved was a deep bruise across my thighs from the bottom of the steering wheel. I would have recieved the same damage had I been wearing the seatbelt as they designed to keep you from going side to side and forward and not up. And I would have had neck and shoulder problems to go with it from the sudden jerk

Seatbelts can also engage if you stop suddenly. Now a no injury situation creates injuries for the people with degenerative diseases. But the worst fear of people with disabilites is being trapped by seatbelt in a situation in which you need to get out of the car in a hurry and the seatbelt is not cooperating. We just can't wriggle free like others.

Seatbelts need to be redesigned before I can justify requiring them.

Answer 3

I use to not wear my seat belt, until one day I was downtown about to leave the bar and I decided to put on my seatbelt, but my cousin didn't, as we were on the freeway driving home, we were going about 70 mph and a car cut us off and clipped my front end and we ended up hitting the way and flipping over 2x. When the car finished sliding, we got out the car, my cousin had a big gash in his head, I didn't have a scratch. Every since then I wear my seat belt.

Answer 4

Wear it It just might keep you alive if your in an accident.
Don't depend on that Air bag to keep you from "impaling youself on the Steering Colum that is why you have both there have been enough studies to show that wearing a seatbelt SAVES lives that this discussion is actually pointless. It is the Law as far a I know in All states that you must wear a seatbelt . So Just wear it get in the habit of not starting the car untill all popple in the Car are buckled up including you. and make it stick.

Answer 5

I never wore mine either but I work as an RN in a LEVEL 1 TRAUMA center in a large city and every day lives change or end because they did not were their seat belts. Most of the time death results... a very messy broken bloody body because of ejection from the vehicle others live but without arms, legs or are mentally disabled or unable to ever walk again from impacts, crushing, being ejected. Peoples age range from unbelted children to our elderly so no one is immune its a sad thing because we could avoid so much pain to ourselves or to our loved ones. I have to console too many family members of the broken and dead when all they needed was a seltbelt.

Answer 6

I dont know any statistics or anything, but seatbelts really do save lives. Not wearing a seatbelt in front or rear-end collisions can cause the occupants of the front seats to be projected throught the winshield.
I've been in a few auto accidents myself (none of which were my fault :D, and I really feel like I could have been seriuosly hurt, or killed if I had'nt been wearing one.
I used to never wear a sealtbelt, now I always wear one. I guess I figured that I have alot to live for, and it's just better common sense to wear one, than not to. I mean really, it's like on one hand you could make a simply choice, which could save you from injury or death, or a ticket. And on the other hand, you could choose not to, and risk it.
I'll risk alot of things, including my life in some circumstances-- but if I can prevent losing my life, I will. Afterall, its all you really have.

Answer 7

Yes I always wear mine in fact I'm always the one telling everyone in my family to where their seat belt and you should too because it can save your life!!!!

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

Yes

Answer 10

It is against the law in many states to be 'belt-less'.

It is a proven fact that lives have been saved because of people wearing their seat belts. I hope we don't see your name in the paper one of these days!