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

Gandalfthesecond

reduceditem wrote: »

Well, there's lots of ways we 'tempt fate'.........a bit of speeding? having a sandwich or drink of water? squeezing through the lights just as they change? etc, etc, etc.


I don't feel it's any kind of a big deal and I don't think I'm tempting fate.

Let's hope you don't go through the windscreen tomorrow.

Gavin83

I don't stick to all road laws but I always wear a seatbelt. Gotta be safe. Same as your other example, if I was mountaineering or rock climbing I'd always wear a rope.

KillerWatt

I'll bet if the airbag was replaced with a metal spike people would make sure the seat belt was the first thing that was applied.
Having said that, if the airbag was replaced with a metal spike I'll quite happily wager that there would be far less accidents than what there are now.

Wig

Yes always, every journey except when I'm driving backwards.

Used to be a taxi driver, and for the most part I didn't wear it, but mostly always put it on when I went out of town. I even wore it around town on some occasions. Got a couple of "raised eyebrow" type comments from the passengers when I was wearing it in town.

MrsE_2

Wig wrote: »

Yes always, every journey except when I'm driving backwards.

Used to be a taxi driver, and for the most part I didn't wear it, but mostly always put it on when I went out of town. I even wore it around town on some occasions. Got a couple of "raised eyebrow" type comments from the passengers when I was wearing it in town.

When DH was younger & cabbed in a much rougher area (south London) I could understand it. But he's in Chelsea now, he's not picking up people who might want to rob him anymore.

Wig

MrsE wrote: »

When DH was younger & cabbed in a much rougher area (south London) I could understand it. But he's in Chelsea now, he's not picking up people who might want to rob him anymore.

It was always my plan, if I got someone putting a knife to my throat, to have my seat belt on already (or to try to put it on without them noticing or whilst I was suspicious about them but they hadn't yet done anything) Then I would speed up, and slam it into a tree/lamppost whilst simultaneously pressing the unlock button on his seat belt :rotfl:

crispy_chris

KillerWatt wrote: »

I'll bet if the airbag was replaced with a metal spike people would make sure the seat belt was the first thing that was applied.
Having said that, if the airbag was replaced with a metal spike I'll quite happily wager that there would be far less accidents than what there are now.

Been watching QI?

AHAR

Clunk click, every trip.

I don't put mine on when going in and out of the garage but always do at all other times - feels weird not to.
I'm surprised how many people don't - you don't need to look out for them for very long at all before you spot one. It's probably helping the human race to evolve to be smarter through natural selection I suppose.

Arg

Seatbelt's didn't help these crashtest dummies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_nt5FF3lXw

jayme1

don't wear a seatbelt = thicko, plain fact.

you're driving round town lets say at 20mph (but would likely be 30) idiot shopper steps out right infront of you (one of thoes with zero warning, I mean not even looking like they are going to step out), you slam full on, what the hell is holding you to the car, unless you like the taste of steering wheel at 20mph? your teeth will like it at least.