Do you think seat belts save lives or take lives? Best answer gets 10 points.?

Question

I have had 2 friends die, both wearing seat belts.... makes me feel like they take lives instead of save them, what is your opinion.

I have had two friends die in auto collisions as a result of their seatbelt... what do you think.

Answer 1

Most definately save lives more than take them. I have seen so many fatalities due to not wearing seat belts. With all cars now being equiped with airbags it is a must to wear one. These air bags can cause serious damage to a person who isn't wearing a seat belt but can save your life if you are. So many people are thrown from their cars even from minor wrecks. Yes sometimes the seatbelts are the cause of death but not near as often as they are the reason for people walking away.

Answer 2

I strongly feel that seat belts save lives. because in most cases when a car is hit the people int he car will be caused to move according to the force of the impact. which usually causes a person to be ejected from the car. Now unless you drive with a helmet on a seat belt is your best bet. I' m sorry about your friends but if the were killed in a collision wearing seat belts they would not have made it with or without them. It had to be an extremely bad accident.

Answer 3

Well, I think if it's time for someone to go, than it's just their time. I know several people who have died in the last couple of years that were NOT wearing seat belts. Really, it depends on the seriousness of the accident. I am sure most people who die in a car wreck with their seat belt on, it would be even worse if they weren't wearing them.

In my opinion, I always think people should wear seat belts. A person can disagree with me, and that's okay, but I just think you are less likely to be ejected from a vehicle if you are wearing a seat belt. I did see an accident in June of this year where 2 guys died and neither were wearing a seat belt, but they only were partially hanging out of the window. It was a pretty serious accident, and I drove up on it. There are a lot of factors that play certain roles in this subject.

Answer 4

Seat belts save lives. While it is unfortunate that your friends died while wearing them, in most cases the injuries from a collision are reduced or eliminated by wearing restraints. There is no scenario where the proper use of seat belts contributes to injury or death. There are just simply situations where seat belts cannot prevent death. Such is the case in where the roof is collapsed or a foreign object penetrates the car and strikes the occupants. There was a recent case where the driver of a pick up who was properly restrained was struck and killed by the battery of a vehicle on the other side of the freeway that was involved in a crash. Circumstances simply made the seat belt ineffective in preventing his death. However you cannot blame the seat belt.

Answer 5

Nonsense. Do you really believe that your friends would be alive today if they weren't belted in? I have been in the automotive industry for over thirty years (twenty in insurance claims) and every year I hear a story about someone knowing about someone else that would be 'alive today' if it were not for that damn seatbelt holding them in the car. This whole line of reasoning is ridiculous. HOW do you know they would be alive? Does it not stand to reason that in a terrible collision that the human body is squashed to tomato paste when it slams into the dash, windsheild, roof, roadbed, etc? The seatbelt is the first line of defence when a crash occurs. Modern cars are designed to protect the passenger cell at all costs in a high speed collision and the seats and belts are engineered to keep people as static as possible in the seating position as the car crushes around them. If you are sailing around inside the car your chances of survival or escaping horrible injury are reduced a hundred-fold.
Do seatbelts save lives? You damn right they do. I see it EVERYDAY. Should they be better? Damn right they should, but the buying public simply will not put up with attaching a complex, four-point harness every time they drive to the local bingo-palace. Instead, we are stuck with multiple high explosive air bags surrounding us when we drive. I'm as pro-individual rights as anyone and I resent big brother telling me I HAVE to buckle-up for my own good. On the flip side, I have enough good sense left to always buckle myself in without anyone having to tell me. Maybe Uncle Sam finally got one right.

Answer 6

While there are examples of seat belts being the cause of someone's death, overall the use of seat belts saves lives.

Answer 7

You should ALWAYS wear a seatbelt. Yes, they have caused deaths before but it is very very unusual. If you do not wear your seatbelt you can be ejected out your windshield or become a human projectile within your vehicle. I have seen it happen because I work as an EMT. There is no excuse not to wear one!

Answer 8

They most definetely save lives my friend casey was hit yesterday by a semi and only recieved a fractured collar bone, but if he wasn't wearing his seatbelt the force that flung him forward breaking his collar bone would've shot him out of his front windshield at eighty plus miles per hour killing him instantly.

Answer 9

i've been to many (8) funerals of family and close friends who have died from car accidents. i don't think it would have mattered either way, with or without the belt for most of them. maybe billie jo wouldn't have been decapitated by her seat belt but more than likely still killed. they all were killed inside the vehicle except one who was crushed by the car landing on top of him. so maybe bob would have lived but then again if its time to go its time to go.

Answer 10

I've seen lots of wrecks in my line of work.I believe seat belts do indeed save lives.Sometimes it may happen where they don't but more times than not they will save a life.