Am I going to die if I drive without PUTTING-ON my SAFETY-BELT? How FAST the car TO KILL the driver…?

Question

I have no driving-license or car, that’s why I’m kinda confused here… is it lethal to drive like that? How about riding a motorcycle without helmet to wear?

Why should I do that?


PS: Please don’t make joke of my questions…. I’m deathly serious and it’s matter of life or death here!!!

Answer 1

Seat belts save lives, and motorcycles are unsafe at any speed. In the ER we call motorcycle drivers "organ donors."

Answer 2

The reason that they put safety devices in place is that sometime in the past people have been seriously injured or killed. Why would you consider not using them?
There are a number of factors involved in this question that go beyond a simple 'fatal' speed. If you are colliding with another vehicle it is the total of both of your speeds; if your doing 30 and the other vehicle is doing 30 that's like hitting a stationary object doing 60!
If you are in a collision that is serious enough to knock your hands away from the wheel you lose care and control of your vehicle and are a hazard to yourself and others; you could end up in oncoming traffic, going off the road into a river/pole/building, hitting a pedestrian etc.
Unless you have a medical reason for not buckling up and have a Dr.s letter to prove it you can be charged where I live.
As for not wearing a helmet on a motorcyle (also against the law here) you end up being a projectile....you can live with a crushed arm or leg, but a crushed melon......

Answer 3

It's either you die or be fatally injured (and usually end up in comatose). I think that 20 km/h (don't know how much would that be on mph) is enough to knock an average weight person against the winshield (if sitting in front) or windows, and maybe rarely break the glass. Now DO NOT try going for 100 km/h or over WITHOUT PUTTING ON SEAT BELTS because you are going to fly right through the windshield. Also, when this happens, you risk being run over by the traffic on the road. Furthermore the car can also turn over on its roof.
As for motorcycles, they often slide to one side when the driver loses control and you run the risk of banging your head and crushing one or both your legs.
MORAL: ALWAYS WEAR SAFETY BELTS AND HELMETS (MOTORCYCLES ONLY) AND DO NOT DRIVE W/O LICENSE.

Answer 4

I am a little bit confused. But this would be a very painful way to die.

If you dont put on a seat belt and you have an accident you may get thrown through the front glass windscreen and go skidding across the gravel.

You will either, 1. die from impact of glass. 2. die from getting flung across the gravel. 3 die from both of those. 4. become a paraplegic/quadraplegic/or a worse but still alive for the rest of your life. VERY PAINFULL!

Riding a motorcycle. Could kill you in many ways even with a helmet. VERY PAINFULL!

If somehow you are planning to kill yourself using these methods or another method please re-consider. Think of those around you that you will hurt more than the PAIN you will experience as you shatter the windscreen glass and slide 100metres down the gravel road or when your leg gets caught under the motorcycle and it crushes you as sparks fly off into your face from not wearing a helmet.

Please get help. This is not a joke! I am deathly serious too!

Answer 5

see: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/seatb.html
"My friend Eddie's Uncle Joe heard about this truck driver who narrowly avoided a fiery wreck by plunging his truck through the gaurdrail and down a 100 meter cliff. If he had had his seatbelt on, he would never have been able to jump out at the last second and hang on to the gaurdrail.
Maybe so.
But the work-energy principle must be satisfied in every collision, and it dictates that the work done in stopping the driver must be equal to the driver's kinetic energy. The shorter the stopping distance, the greater the impact force. And cases where the seatbelt would not lengthen your stopping distance and decrease your impact force are about as rare as this kind of accident.
Rather than making judgements about safety from anecdotes like the one above, it is wise to consider the evidence from the large database on traffic fatalities."

"The task of the seatbelt is to stop you with the car so that your stopping distance is probably 4 or 5 times greater than if you had no seatbelt. A crash which stops the car and driver must take away all its kinetic energy, and the work-energy principle then dictates that a longer stopping distance decreases the impact force. For the example car crash scenario the stopping distance is one foot, the force on a 160 lb driver is about 4800 lb or 2.4 tons, and the deceleration about 30 g's. A moderate amount of stretch in the seatbelts will reduce the average impact force. "

Answer 6

All accidents are different, so it's impossible to say if a seatbelt will help in any given accident. HOWEVER... the rate of survival in an accident is greatly improved among those who were wearing a safety belt at the time. Just put it on, it's not difficult.

And not wearing a motorcycle helmet is just stupid. Motorcycle accidents are hundreds of times more lethal than car accidents, and helmets are proven to reduce head injuries. Once again, just wear it.

Answer 7

I didn't have my seat belt totally fastened About 5 years ago. As a result I spent 4 days in the hospital with a broken vertebrae and a sore bottom that was painful when still sitting on three pillows. I didn,t plan to have an accident but they happen thru no fault of your own. We had a girl At our church hurt in a motorcycle accident and spent 4 months in the hospital due to no helmet. The choice is yours but can be painful if precautions are not taken.

Answer 8

It is possibly lethal to drive without a seatbelt a car doesnt need to be moving very quickly to eject the driver. If the car hits a stationary then the impact is doubled. If you hit something doing 60 its the equative to the force of being dropped from a 4 story building, so being thrown is not uncommon. A motorcycle is partically dangerous without a helmet if you fall there is nothing to protect that pretty face as it meets with asphalt.

Answer 9

Whether you die or not depends on whether your vehicle makes impact with another object. If your vehicle does not make any impact, then you will be fine. If your vehicle does make impact with another, depending on the speed of your vehicle, and possible the speed of the other vehicle it may be fatal. I have seen fatalities in accidents where neither car was exceeding 35-40 miles per hour, but the circumstances of the head on collision, and the way the autos collided caused the death of a passenger.

Think of it this way. Your car can be completely stationary, however, if you are hit be a tractor-trailer driving at 50 MPH, there is a great chance that you will not survive.

Answer 10

the seatbelt has been answered so ill go with the helmet, the helmet provides extra cover for your head because you are travelling on a motorbike if you come off at any speed and land on your head you risk braindamage even death (you do not have to knock your head very hard to kill yourself you just need to knock the right place) the helmet offers some protection against this, also its why most people wear leathers on a bike because if they came off the gravel rash they would suffer would be quite deep, layers and layers of skin would be stripped from your body, depending on the sped this can be down to the bone, also the leathers offer some protection from broken bones,
i really do not understand the reason for asking this q as it is publicised soooo often even my 8 yr old knows the answer anyway the seatbelt and the hemet have been legalised as protection, because studies show less fatalities with them in accidents than without, this does not mean however that if you do wear them you wont die, there is just less chance of doing so

Answer 11

Well, it's not that you are assured of death by driving without wearing your seat belt, but your "probability" of death increases without wearing a seat belt. Some factoids I pulled off the 'Net:

» Seat belts are the most effective safety devices in vehicles. In potentially fatal frontal crashes, they increase your chance of survival by 45% in a car and 60% in a light truck.

» Without wearing a seat belt, a 35 m.p.h. crash is the equivalent of falling from a third-story window.

» Safety belts saved more than 12,000 American lives in 2001. Yet, during that same year, nearly two-thirds (60 percent) of passenger vehicle occupants killed in traffic crashes were unrestrained.

» Safety belts should always be worn, even when riding in vehicles equipped with air bags. Air bags are designed to work with safety belts, not alone. Air bags, when not used with safety belts, have a fatality-reducing effectiveness rate of only 12 percent.

» Safety belt usage saves society an estimated $50 billion annually in medical care, lost productivity, and other injury-related costs.