Do you fasten your seatbelt for every journey?.....really?......I don't

Rossy.

Seatbelt is worn 100% of the time

"Clunk click every trip"

cubegame

There is no reason not to wear a seatbelt. Laziness is not even on the scale. If you can find the energy to open a car door you can reach for a seat belt.

The OP is clearly a troll or an idiot who thinks he's a bit "Top Gear" style clever in not wearing a seat belt. Ignore and move on. Either that or wait until he says he downs half a bottle of vodka before each drive to deaden the pain if he is in an accident.

crazylegsr65

I'm volunteer ambulance crew.

Do you know how hard it is to secure someone's air way if they have massive facial trauma?

Do you know how hard it is to walk with two broken legs and massive pelvic trauma

If you crash your car and you're not wearing a seatbelt you will have one of the above - how much depends on how lucky you are. Don't anyone dare bleat on about how their airbag will stop that because they're designed to work with seatbelts.

You will either shunt forward under your steering wheel, at which point your knees will slam into the dash at whatever speed you were travelling. Your body will continue to travel at that speed and the head of your femur will punch through your pelvis and cause massive internal bleeding - if you're normal then at this point you're femur(s) will probably break as well. This means you now have two sharp, pointy sticks stabbing the inside of each leg causing additional trauma as well as the blood pouring from the marrow of your bones. The sharp pointy sticks that were your internal bones will probably poke all the way through and stick out of your legs exposing you to massive infection risks. Because of the strength of your leg muscles and the fact that they no longer have anything to 'pull' against your own body will then cause the bones to push through the gaping holes in your legs even further.

If you don't pitch under the steering wheel you'll pitch over it.

This means that your chest will hit the steering wheel. Do you know what holds your heart in place? Pretty much bog all. These means that there will be a massive tearing force happening which will probably result in your heart literally tearing itself away from the aorta (which is the major vessel feeding the rest of the body). Your heart will keep beating though, even though all it's doing is pumpng blood into your chest cavity. This creates pressure that is abnormal within the cavity and to combat this the heart beats faster - can you see where this if going?

If you're somehow lucky enough to avoid smashing your chest into the steering wheel then your face will hit the windscreen - this will inevitabley cause you
a) to bleed
and (probably)
b) lose conciousness.

If you're bleeding into your mouth and nose you can no longer breathe and you'll drown in your own blood.

Now tell me you won't wear your seatbelt again.

Mark_Hewitt

Driving without a seatbelt would like like going out of the house without any clothes

Mark_Hewitt

The one thing I don't understand is those people who will drive off without putting a seatbelt on and then try to put it on while they are driving or at the first junction they come to.

Same at the end of the journey too, I was once hit from behind in a supermarket car park from someone who was too busy taking his seatbelt off - while moving - to notice that I'd stopped!

Mark_Hewitt

serious_saver wrote: »

I always put my seat belt on straight away even if I'm sat on the drive waiting for the family

I wouldn't go as far as wearing a seatbelt on the drive. But I would do even if waiting in a parked car on the road.

When I was about 7-8 years old, we were on holiday in Scotland and had just got back to our cottage, which meant parking on the road. We'd just come to a stop when we heard a squeal of brakes and got hit hard from behind.

Our Fiesta at the time didn't come with rear seatbelts but my Dad had retrofitted a four point harness for me, thankfully as we'd only just arrived I was still strapped in, it doesn't bear thinking about what would have happened if I hadn't been.

wba31

we can call the OP what we want, reality is that he's old enough to make his own decisions, and by his responses he is man enough to take responsibility for them... good luck i say, i really hope you never have an accident...

I always wear my seatbelt, it was always recommended to in my cars the way i used to drive when younger (like a !!!!!!!)

I got shunted from behind when i was 21, and the seatbelt caused my collar bone to break, i do wonder how much worse off i would have been minus a seatbelt, possibly in a condition similar to what the paramedic described... i was sat with my handbrake on (waiting for car in front to turn right), the car that hit me was doing 50 mph and didnt see me to even brake...

cyclonebri1

thescouselander wrote: »

Years ago I was in a taxi that came off the road at about 40mph. I was wearing my seatbelt and walked away without injury. My mate who was not wearing a seatbelt suffered injuries to his back which he still suffers from today.

Not for a minute do I condone not wearing a seatbelt, statistics dictate that you are at a greater danger without that with, but

Again, years ago I was the driver of a mini that was in a head on collision with a car that turned right across us at point blank range. My wife and 2 kids were in the car. Too early for rear seat belts or airbags, but thank God for seat head restraints. Both kids hit these, had black eyes and cuts but otherwise were fine. My wife, in the passengers seat received serious damage from the seat belt itself, even the release for the belt sheared off and she had to be cut out of the car.

I wasn't wearing my seatbelt, had I been restrained I would have been crushed by the steering wheel but as the floor came up I pushed the steering columb through the windscreen and my head popped the sunroof out of the car, a few scratches but the only one uninjured in the car.

Lucky I know and definately the exception that proves the rule.

I do wear my belt at all times now.

cardinalbiggles

reduceditem wrote: »

Probably just laziness.....

Apart from the obvious risk to myself (and that irksome 'law' stuff), am I really doing anything that bad?


For the record, I always wear it on the m-way and on most country roads. It's just around town, really, that I sometimes find it annoying and may 'forget' to put it on for a bit. I do always insist on any passengers buckling up, btw.

Thoughts?

Your an idiot.

Firstly its not you that will need to scrape you out the car should you have a collision with something and secondly when you come through the windscreen into someone elses vehicle killing them in the process are you going to feel ok about that?

Actually, why did I bother writing that, your an idiot!

bigjl

reduceditem wrote: »

Probably just laziness.....

Apart from the obvious risk to myself (and that irksome 'law' stuff), am I really doing anything that bad?


For the record, I always wear it on the m-way and on most country roads. It's just around town, really, that I sometimes find it annoying and may 'forget' to put it on for a bit. I do always insist on any passengers buckling up, btw.

Thoughts?

It is the law. Simples.

Also have you ever attended an RTC in a professional capacity when the occupants were unrestrained, I have, many times, you would be surprised how many bits the human body can be torn into when you are ejected from a car.

People will say, but that is at speed, well I work in East London, not the M1.

When two cars hit each other doing 30 mph that is a closing speed of 60mph, exerted on any unrestrained passenger the resultant accident though fairly low speed will have serious consequences.

Such an accident occured on the Romford RD is E15 a few years ago, young family, several unrestrained, including several young children, the family now has to deal with the injuries sustained for life.

The drunk in the car that caused the RTC was wearing his belt and was fine.

Just think about it that way.

I learned to drive in the mid to late '80s.

And to be honest if I don't wear my belt I feel as though I might fall out of the car at any time.

Though I do tend to not wear my belt when in the back of an Ambulance, go figure that one out, though if the call is life threatening I do tend to sit in the seat the faces backwards, otherwise called the trauma or airway seat.

Though we are taught on our driving course how to do CPR (chest compression part) with one hand whilst standing up and holding onto the handrail like a monkey!

I think it may be slightly safer when the person driving is an advanced driver to be honest.

But when you join the job you accept that you may have to put yourself in a dangerous position in the best interests of your patient.

But not wear a belt whilst driving or going to a call, nope, never.