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Reply #30 –
I voted no. I don't wear my seatbelt all the time and have tickets to show it.

Now that said the law that states you have to wear a seatbelt it BS. If the guys on the motorcycles don't have to have a helmet why do I have to have a seatbelt. The law is there to protect the idiots. So are we going to walk around holding there hands all the time.

Yes I do realize I called myself an idiot. But I am not I just belive in have my freedom. I make my kids wear a seatbelt all the time. I grew up that way also.

But when you make a law such as this where does it stop. Are we going to have to drive in a different lave because are car are pre-airbag? Or I have to share a lanve with everyone between the ages of 20 to 25 becasue we are the ones that are at high tisk for accidents?

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Reply #31 –
Quote from: oldraven
Here's a good question. How many of you avid seatbelt wearers have gotten into an older vehicle lately that has no seatbelts? Do you feel like your life is in the drivers hands or what? It's like driving in a death trap. You just keep watching that dash, waiting for it to cave your cheast in (you know, the old lead sleds with killer dashes).:D


I have made myself look stupid one time...  was working on the shop teachers 57 chevy bel aire  and finished it up got in it to take it for a drive and I couldnt find the seat belts my buddle laughed at me and told me they didnt have them.  felt really weird driving something so big and heavy with no seatbelt.  then I noticed the big steel unpadded dash that it has.  made me feel really safe :D
 

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Reply #32 –
Quote from: 88turbo
then I noticed the big steel unpadded dash that it has.  made me feel really safe :D


Yup get in an accident hit the dash. They hose the thing down sell it to the next person.

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Reply #33 –
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Now that said the law that states you have to wear a seatbelt it BS. If the guys on the motorcycles don't have to have a helmet why do I have to have a seatbelt. The law is there to protect the idiots. So are we going to walk around holding there hands all the time.


massachusettes law require helmets...anybody else?
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Reply #34 –
Ya it verys from state to state. IL doesn't require one. But I have to have a seat belt. Even though I drive around inside a metal cage all day long.

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Reply #35 –
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Are we going to have to drive in a different lave[sic] because are car are pre-airbag? Or I have to share a lanve[sic] with everyone between the ages of 20 to 25 becasue[sic] we are the ones that are at high tisk[sic] for accidents?


No.  Of course not.  Don't be ridiculous.

But not doing something that could save your life in an accident just because someone tells you that you have to is dumb.  Even if the law says I don't have to wear a helmet when I ride my motorcycle I would still have it on because it could save my life.  And my life is more important to me than sticking it to the man just to make a point.
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Reply #36 –
No its not to make a point or stick it to the man. I just get in my car sometimes and not put the seat belt on. The point I am trying to make is that if the laws says I have to wear seat belt why don't they make the guys on the motorcycles wear a helmet.

I'm sure there are more deaths that result from no helmat than from no seat belt. How many injuries have you heard of from air bags going off. There are at least 2 local accidents that the driver was killed becasue the air bag went off after the accident and snaped there head back and broke their necks.

Safety is in the eye of the driver. If he or she feals safe runnig down to the corner store to get a loaf of bread not wearing a seat belt let them.

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Reply #37 –
Quote from: shame302
massachusettes law require helmets...anybody else?


Yes, yes it does, and rightfully so in my oppinion. The only times I don't wear my seat belt, is when I sometimes forget as a passanger in a car. When I am driving putting that thing on is automatic and if you don't wear a seatbelt, you don't ride in my car.

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Reply #38 –
I always wear it and make my passengers wear it. I don't feel like flying out the front winshield if I get in an accident....
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Reply #39 –
Interesting topic. Lets see, when I had to borrow my freinds CRX for awhile I didnt wear my seatbelt. Reason why was because it had bucket seats that practically held me in. Being the small car it was I actually felt safe in it. My T-bird, sometimes I wore it sometimes I didnt. If it was a short trip I usually didnt wear it. The Caprice and my Ranger on the other hand I wear it all the time, because I just dont feel safe in them at all without my seatbelt on. Really for me its just a matter of wether I feel safe in the car. I'm not saying just cause you have bucket seats you dont have to wear seatbelts. Although lately I've been noticing more and more idjits out on the roads. Not trying to derail the topic or anything but lately I've been seeing people pull down a side street and BACK put onto the main road to turn around WTF!? I've also seen people do that in parking lots where they could have turned around and pulled out. Really theres just too many dumb people driving nowadays not to wear one.
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Reply #40 –
If I'm driving around town (30mph max), I don't wear my seatbelt.  If I'm doing 55+, I have it on.  I've been in a few accidents (some on purpose) at speeds 35-45 going to 0 and I wasn't wearing a belt, and didn't get a scratch.  I was in a car when it rolled and if I did have my belt on, I don't think I'd be typing this right now.  I am with slammedcat, I think I can decide when I need a belt.

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Reply #41 –
People really do a lot of stupid things. Even as a passenger, I still always have to wear the belt. Two girls were killed when I was in high school. They were riding in the back of a CRX without their seatbelts when the driver wrecked the car. He was wearing his seatbelt and survived. They were ejected through the rear window of the car and died instantly.

Now as for the motorcycle helmet bit. Yes helmets can help save your life but have you ever seen some of the people in motorcycle accidents. Half of them, even if they do wear a helmet, get have of their skin sed off because of the way they dress. If they have one of those army-style helmets that just protect the top of their head, their face can be severely damaged. The only way to protect your face and the rest of your head for that matter would be to wear a full face helmet. Following the law you could put a piece of tin on your head, call it a helmet, say you're safe and compliant and commit suicide. Is that really serving it's purpose? I think not.

The biker community for the most part is really not concerned with safety. I don't know how bikers ride around you all but here they are insane. They weave in and out of traffic, make their own lanes between cars, tailgate, and I've even been cut off to where I had to slow down not to hit them. Therefore, I think the laws are stupid. If someone is really concerned with their safety while riding, they would go out with no less than a full body leather suite, a full face helmet with leather gloves and supportive boots. They would also not drive like fools.

I've had direct experience with this. A guy I know  got himself a bike and he loved to ride. He had a full leather suite specially made for him because he couldn't fit into any of the ones he saw locally and he had the full helmet and all the other stuff. One day while riding, a car ran a stop sign and plowed right into him. He skidded across the ground for quite some distance and went to the hospital only to be released allmost immediately. He had no injuries whatsoever. If he would have been riding like some of the fools I see around here, he would have either been dead or needed severe reconstructive surgury. The damage to his suite and helmet proved this.

There should be no law there to force them to wear a helmet. If they are concerned for their safety they will take care of it themselves.

I guess I could say that for cars too. I don't think it's necessarily right for drivers to be forced to wear seat belts. If they want to wear them and hope that it's going to save them in the event of an accident, they should. But if they are uncomfortable with them or feel they may be safer without them, they should be allowed not to wear them. I will always wear mine whether the law states I have to or not. For that matter, even if I get one of those old monsters that don't have seatbelts, you just might find me installing them.  User preferance that's what it's all about.

That's a bit long :sorry:

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Reply #42 –
What? there is a seat belt in a car?  :hick:

Oh you mean that ugly thing hanging near the door? :evilgrin:
Never... (Except maybe when i have a cop beside me....) :D

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Reply #43 –
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People really do a lot of stupid things. Even as a passenger, I still always have to wear the belt. Two girls were killed when I was in high school. They were riding in the back of a CRX without their seatbelts when the driver wrecked the car. He was wearing his seatbelt and survived. They were ejected through the rear window of the car and died instantly.


I didnt even know CRX had seatbelts in the back let alone a back seat. My buddiy's rex doesnt have a back seat and I've ridden back there, and all I can say is how the hell did two people fit back there? I mean even with a seat back there that can be safe. Oh and btw my freind wrecked his CRX doin 50-60 around a curve with no seatbelt and is fine, all he got was a little bruise and that was enough to make him wear his seatbelt.
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Reply #44 –
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I am with slammedcat, I think I can decide when I need a belt.


But, what about not wearing it at a stop light and then your car gets plowed from behind by some drunk moron doing 70 MPH?  What then?

You never know what's gonna happen.  Nobody does.  And, almost everyone who goes through some horrible experience thinks that there's no way it could happen to them.......

I'm not preachin for you to wear it.  It's your decision.  Just remember there are things beyond your control.
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