Why do we have to buckle up our seat belts when we are in the car??

Answer 1

Err, because if you don't buckle it, it wouldn't work in an accident and you'd be thrown threw the windscreen and probaly die.

Your choice I suppose.

Answer 2

Most people will say that it is so you will be safe in an accident, but if it is the law that you have to buckle up, then its more of an insurance thing. If there is a law that says you have to use your seat belt, then the entire area will benefit from having lower insurance rates. Also it helps to keep un-insured drivers and passengers from costly medical bills that will mostly be paid by social security or taken as a loss from the hospitals. If the hospitals take a loss on 75000 dollars worth of medical treatment, they are going to pass it on to the next guy with insurance, so having your seat belt on helps to keep your health insurance rates down too.

Answer 3

so you don't fly through the windshield in a head-on collision...you won't get a 2nd chance if you do. of course this has been a simplified answer. there are many scenarios for reasons to buckle up too.

i went through the sun-roof of a v.w. bug when i was 13...way before the seat belt laws. i almost didn't live. got a thumb and an ear nearly cut off, have scars on my face, compound head-injury. etc. just buckle up and don't whine about it.

Answer 4

So that we are safe if there is a car accident. If you don't have your seat belt on then you can go flying out of the windscreen ( if you are in the middle) or you can hit your head against the front chair and get serious brain problems

Answer 5

We do our seatbelts in the car so if we do have a crash, we don't get launched from our seats and are acquainted with our windscreens. If you are asking this then you shouldn't be on the road as you are a danger to yourself and any passengers you may have. Unless of course you are a rebellious child then unfortunately you have to do what mummy and daddy say and do your seat-belt.

Answer 6

It minimises the chances of you going flying through the windscreen and/or getting more injured. the shock of the crash will lock the belt and kinda stop you shooting forward. Try it yourself pull the seatbelt slowley and it will be ok but pull it hard it wont move. So the seatbelt will save your life in an event of an accident.

Answer 7

Is anybody on a death wish out there?? lol
It can save your life and stop you going flying through the window screen if the car comes to an emergency halt!
Have you never seen all thoes saftey adverts on the tv?

Answer 8

That is Big Brother making your mind up for you. Then if you don't wear it, they fine you, so also a money maker.

Think about this one. In Indiana you have to wear a seatbelt for "safety" but do not have to wear a helmet on a motorcycle.

Plus,,,,, Why do you have to wear a seatbelt on a plane? If it crashes, just gonna cut you in half anyway.

No one claims the laws have comman sense.

Answer 9

Among passenger vehicle occupants over 4 years old, safety belts saved an estimated 15,434 lives in 2004.

According to NHTSA’s The Economic Impact of Motor Vehicle Crashes 2000, the use of safety belts saved society $585 billion in medical care, lost productivity, and other injury-related economic costs (since 1975).

When lap/shoulder safety belts are used properly, they reduce the risk of fatal injury to front-seat occupants riding in passenger cars by 45 percent and the risk of moderate-to-critical injury by 50 percent. For light-truck front-seat occupants, safety belts reduce the risk of fatal injury by 60 percent and the risk of moderate-to-critical injury by 65 percent.

Ejection from passenger vehicles is one of the most harmful events that can happen to people during a crash. In passenger vehicle crashes in which someone died in 2004, 21 percent of occupants who were killed were completely ejected from the vehicle. Safety belts are effective in preventing total ejections. In 2004, in crashes in which someone was killed, only 3 percent of the occupants using restraints were totally ejected, compared with 37 percent of unrestrained occupants.

Twenty-seven percent of 16- to 20-year-old occupant fatalities were ejections, compared with 21 percent for the general population, illustrating the need to promote safety belt use in this age group.

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/airbags/MVOP2004/pages/TheNeedtoPromote.htm

Answer 10

Coz unlike me, who, when involved in an accident you do not get thrown around like a toy doll smashing into the inside of the car, being bashed up to fu c k and spending time in hospital. So there!!!!!!!