STORM2K

Why don't they buckle up in the movies? I think this sends the wrong message. Another one is in all the cop shows I watch, the cops aren't wearing their seat belts. Duh! They have a message on their cars, buckle up its the law and their driving down the street not buckled up.

Yes, you have that right, but I think movies in general send a lot of wrong messages. Especially to our young.

For someone who as a teenager thought it should be MY choice wheather or not to wear one and thought the new law was stupid. I am very adamant about my whole family wearing them now. I don't think my kids have ever rode in a car without them on, EVER. And it makes me so mad to see kids ecspecially younger than 6 bouncing around the car unbelted. They are so little that any little accident could send them through the windshield.

I agree they should pay more attention to what they put on t.v., I watch alot, and I mean alot of those baby shows on Discovery, and Discovery Health and they are alway putting thier newborns in the car seats wrong. It drives me crazy. They should take that opportunity to teach the parents and all of America how its done properly. After all they say about 85% of child seats are not properly installed and about 60% not properly restrained in that seat. Those numbers are way too high!! Okay rant over.

Who is the gentleman in the picture?

Cookiely wrote:Who is the gentleman in the picture?

Gov. Corzine of New Jersey. He was recently in a car accident. The officer driving the governor's SUV was speeding in bad weather and crashed. Gov. Corzine was not wearing his seatbelt. He was badly injured in the accident. BTW, Corzine paid the fine for not wearing his seatbelt.

lurker_from_nc wrote:

Cookiely wrote:Who is the gentleman in the picture?

Gov. Corzine of New Jersey. He was recently in a car accident. The officer driving the governor's SUV was speeding in bad weather and crashed. Gov. Corzine was not wearing his seatbelt. He was badly injured in the accident. BTW, Corzine paid the fine for not wearing his seatbelt.

I remember reading the article about the accident. There is a $10,000.00 dollar reward to the family of anyone that dies with their seat belt fastened. I never used to wear a seat belt until I listened to a highway patrol officer on the radio. He said he had never pulled a dead body out of a vehicle when they had their seat belt on but he had pulled out thousands that weren't buckled up. He convinced me.

Truthfully, I NEVER used my seatbelt until I went to work for the PD. Why? I was in a wreck and IF I had my seatbelt on, I would NOT be here today plain and simple.

Same thing happened to my brother. He hit a patch of black ice and wrapped his car around a telephone pole. He would be dead if he had been wearing his seat belt.

JenBayles wrote:Same thing happened to my brother. He hit a patch of black ice and wrapped his car around a telephone pole. He would be dead if he had been wearing his seat belt.

In the past 3 years, I have been on NUMEROUS fatal accident scenes where seat belts have actually caused the fatality and not the the wreck! I was on one scene where the AIR BAG snapped the neck of the driver....he ran off the road, hit a tree doing approx. 30 MPH, not much damage to the car but he was DOA

azsnowman wrote:

JenBayles wrote:Same thing happened to my brother. He hit a patch of black ice and wrapped his car around a telephone pole. He would be dead if he had been wearing his seat belt.

In the past 3 years, I have been on NUMEROUS fatal accident scenes where seat belts have actually caused the fatality and not the the wreck! I was on one scene where the AIR BAG snapped the neck of the driver....he ran off the road, hit a tree doing approx. 30 MPH, not much damage to the car but he was DOA

I have heard stories on both sides, my B/F was hit by a semI and would not be here if she had her belt on.
But I think your chances are alot better with one than without one, ecspecially at high speeds. I used to wear one just when I went on the interstate but not around town just for that vary reason.

Geez. I'm working on learning to drive (at an embarrassingly advanced age, I guess), and I'm kind of nervous about it, and this isn't really helping.

AnnularCane wrote:Geez. I'm working on learning to drive (at an embarrassingly advanced age, I guess), and I'm kind of nervous about it, and this isn't really helping.

It's good that you're concerned. That will make you more careful.

As for seatbelts, the fact is that in the vast vast majority of cases, seatbelts will lessen the impact of a crash on the occupant of the vehicle. It is absolutely stupid to not wear one.

I wore my seatbelt before having to wear one became law.

I was involved in a wreck (about 13 years ago) in which I would have been thrown out of my truck and crushed had I not been wearing a seatbelt. That being said, sometimes wearing a seatbelt is just as dangerous as going without.

Don't get me wrong, I am a FIRM believer in seat belts and it's the "LAW"! It's a Catch 22 situation, damed if you do, damed if you don't wear one. I wear my all the time now regardless but I carry a seatbelt cutting tool in the car with me at all times! I have it in the center consoule where it's readily accesible no matter the circumstances.

If my son had not been wearing his seatbelt when he black ice on I 95 in Jan 2000. His car went off the mountain side and, landed nose first and started tumbling nose over tail down the mountain, 7 times. He came to rest against a pine tree upside down and he was hanging out of the moon roof. He had major injuries but he was alive. it took him a year to recover from them all.

azsnowman wrote:Don't get me wrong, I am a FIRM believer in seat belts and it's the "LAW"! It's a Catch 22 situation, damed if you do, damed if you don't wear one. I wear my all the time now regardless but I carry a seatbelt cutting tool in the car with me at all times! I have it in the center consoule where it's readily accesible no matter the circumstances.

The reason I was terrified to wear a seat belt was the idea of being trapped and the car catching fire. I carry a cutting tool too. It makes more sense to wear a seat belt and have a chance to escape than be unconscious from not wearing one.

Okay, I didn't know there was such a thing as a seat belt cutting tool. Where would you get one of those?
I just bought a one of those small Luisville slugger bats at a yard sale this weekend thinking if we happen to end up in one of the thousands of lakes here in FL., with electric windows they may not work, and I could bust the windows out with it. Now I would like to add the seat belt cutting tool as well.

I wear mine all of the time. I have seen too many reports where those who were thrown out of a vehicle died and those who wore the belts lived.