Who wears their seatbelt?

[AteUp]

I wear mine religiously, always have. Don't care if the government tells me I have to, it's only in my best interest to do so.

[Scott7m]

I do 90% of the time, maybe this should be a poll.

[lab]

I feel weird if I do not wear mine even if only travelling a mile down the road. When sitting in the back seat I will sometimes neglect wearing it, but not often.

[philipfleek]

I said yes. 100% of the time just cause they say I have to. Cops up here hit ya pretty hard for not having it on.....

[trust me]

I have spent 24 years cutting and prying people out of wrecks. I've seen many cases where people died that would have lived with hardly a scratch if they had worn a belt.

I've heard all the arguments against wearing it. "I might drive in the river, the car might catch on fire, I'd rather be thrown out than stay in the wreck," all that nonsense. I've seen literally hundreds of car accidents up close and personal and please believe me, you have a much better chance of surviving with the belt on.

[Zeb]

I hardly ever used a seat belt until my first kid was born. Really don't have a good reason- just didn't. We (wife really:eek:) made a "rule" that the car didn't move till the seatbelts/carseat(s) were in order. I've gotten in the habit and use it always now... Hopefully it will stick with my kids too. Oldest has been driving for a year or so and the next one will be driving next year.

[MsgMills]

I got used to wearing one 100% of the time while in the Military....Since the Military can impose the clause of not paying the Death Benefit. If the deceased Soldier died of an auto accident and did not have his or her seat belt on.........

[slickhead slayer]

100% of the time, always have.

[RLWEBB]

I wear mine ALWAYS!

[therron258]

every time i sit down in the car its on, i even remind others to put it on

[12 pointer]

I wear mine religiously, always have. Don't care if the government tells me I have to, it's only in my best interest to do so.

My thoughts exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And If you are in one of my vehicles, you will also or you don't go.

[killer]

I currently wear it every now and then. I'm trying to get in the habit of wearing it all the time.

[Duster]

For those of you who don't wear one each and every time you sit your rear down in a vehicle I wish you could see first hand what can happen if you don't. I live with the results of not wearing one each and every day and have for 15 years now. My youngest daughter neglected to put hers on one day, made a mistake , ran a redlight got broadsided and sent into a brick building head on. Not a scratch on her but her head hit the rear view mirror and she suffered a major brain stem injury. Now 36 years old, will never be able to hold a job, have kids she can take care of, stuck in her little world with the mind of a 15 year old. It took years to get her back to the point she has been in the past 12 or so years. She had to learn from infant stage how to walk, feed herself, even had to undergo potty training. If she was to sit down and talk with those who choose not to buckle up she would tell you not to make the mistake of not doing it.

[AteUp]

That's terrible Duster, I'm sorry to hear that. It doesn't take much of a bump on the head to really scramble your brain. I have cousin who was in a car accident as a teen and she isn't even the same person she was before the accident. Spent a lot of time in rehab and had to learn to talk again. She eventually married and had kids, but the pre-accident Peggy died the day she had the wreck.

[chasinhornsnfans]

i am a every now and then person. i know i should do it more, especially after i strap in 3 kids in the back seat, then i turn around and dont put one on me

[treerat]

i didn't until i had a bad headon collision back in 95,,,since then,,that is the first thing i put on

[bowhunter08]

First thing i do when i get in a vehicle, and always have. You never know when something may happen.

[KYHUNTER14]

I am not joking at all when i say this, but the nonstop DING DING DING DING DINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDING makes me put my seat belt on in the wifes car. I am guessing the goal of this incessant dinging is to make people wear their seatbelt. For me it works great. I always wear it in her car. No DING in my truck, so I only wear it occasionally there.

[killinmammals]

I am not joking at all when i say this, but the nonstop DING DING DING DING DINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDING makes me put my seat belt on in the wifes car. I am guessing the goal of this incessant dinging is to make people wear their seatbelt. For me it works great. I always wear it in her car. No DING in my truck, so I only wear it occasionally there.
Same here...I try to remember to put it on but don't remember sometimes

[mrdux]

Having mine on in 1975 is the only reason I'm still here. I flipped a car end over end into some woods and ended up upside down with the windshield wrapped around me. I had to crawl out thru the door window because all the other openings were crushed to the dash level. I ended up with glass in my eyes and a bad bruise from the two-piece harness. It was definitely not cool to wear them then but I did and still do. You ride with me, you will also.

[The scout'n man]

Start the car, put seatbelt on and take off!:D Saved my life once, and I depend on it to do the same agin if I need it to! Alot of my friends don't but when I ride with'm I do! And they give me this funny look! I always tell'm "I'm not going to pay half the ticket when you get one!" Or "its not your dirveing I always wear one." Or I just thougt of a good one, I'll see you in heaven but I'm makeing shure I'm a ways behind you in line!":rolleyes:

[RocketRider]

I've worn a seatbelt ever since I started driving, and had a very strict driver ed teacher in high school. Yes, the actually had DE in Alabama high schools back in 1973. Of course our vehicles were pickup trucks with beer cans rattlin' around the bed...:D
Anyway, we watched several gruseome videos of accidents showing bodies of people that weren't wearing & the message stuck. After 35 years of driving and never being involved in an accident that was MY fault, I've been in some doozies. I know for a fact that they have saved my tail at least once, if not more.

RR~

[buschog]

Alway's wear mine. Had a bad wreck when I was young am lucky to be alive today.

[uplandchessies]

Never.

A friend in high school died as a result of wearing one and I knew others whom suffered the same fate. If there was enough evidence to prove they saved lives then school buses would have them for protecting our most important cargo. I also find it odd that we have a seatbelt law, yet one can zip down the road on a motorcycle without a helmet.

I do have all passengers and my dog secured when driving.

[Redfishman]

Always wear one. I do have issues with my Tundra's "safety" feature of a most irritating bell which gets louder the longer you go without securing the belt. There are times when you back a trailer or need to go across a field and a belt is a hinderance. On the road it's on 100%.

[slickhead slayer]

Never.

A friend in high school died as a result of wearing one and I knew others whom suffered the same fate. If there was enough evidence to prove they saved lives then school buses would have them for protecting our most important cargo. I also find it odd that we have a seatbelt law, yet one can zip down the road on a motorcycle without a helmet.

I do have all passengers and my dog secured when driving.

wow!!!!!..........

[hunt-4-life21]

Never.

A friend in high school died as a result of wearing one and I knew others whom suffered the same fate. If there was enough evidence to prove they saved lives then school buses would have them for protecting our most important cargo. I also find it odd that we have a seatbelt law, yet one can zip down the road on a motorcycle without a helmet.

I do have all passengers and my dog secured when driving.
Studies have showed that 9/10 times that people who wore seat belts survive. And i have asked my superintendent why seat belts arent in school buses and his responds was that it would be very difficult to get 60 kids out of a bus in 20 seconds (needed amount of time for a fire drill) if they were buckled up.

[12 pointer]

For all you non-wearers or part time wearers.....This is a forum member that died summer before last. I bet if he could speak to you right now, he would recommend wearing it. News article said he was thrown from vehicle. SAD!!!!:(

http://www.kentuckyhunting.net/forums/showthread.php?t=45385&highlight=allaroundhunter

[muzzy125acc]

I voted yes saved my Arse in June of this year...

[AteUp]

A school bus also carries a lot of weight behind them. Unless it hits an immovable object or a heavier vehicle, it's not coming to an immediate stop in a wreck. Same reasoning why truck drivers survive wrecks with cars. Don't know if I've ever seen a truck driver wear one.

[AteUp]

Always wear one. I do have issues with my Tundra's "safety" feature of a most irritating bell which gets louder the longer you go without securing the belt. There are times when you back a trailer or need to go across a field and a belt is a hinderance. On the road it's on 100%.

Here's how to disable the alarm on a Tundra. On my F150 there is a certain sequence of turning the ignition key and plugging in the belt that disables it in the computer.

http://www.tundratalk.net/forums/tundra-interior-discussion/11627-easy-way-override-your-seatbelt-chime.html

[trust me]

About the school bus issue...

I've trained on those things. If you have about a day to waste, try to cut a hole in the side of one. They are built like tanks. There is no safer way to travel than on a big yellow school bus, I guarantee.

They have studied seat belts on buses to hell and back, and the DOT says that kids are better off without them because of the evacuation time. The seats of a bus actually are designed to cushion and take the force of a child's impact. I used to have a very technical website on my favorites that detailed all the reasons kids are better off without them, but I lost it. Anyway, that argument doesn't carry over to passenger vehicles. Two totally separate things.

Chessy, I am very curious about how seat belts took the lives of your friends. I've seen pretty unpleasant post mortem photographs of kids that died of internal injuries because a seat belt was improperly worn. If the strap is across the belly instead of the waist, it can cause harm. I saw a photograph of a 12 year old boy laying naked on the exam table. He didn't have a mark except for a dark bruise line running across his naval and stomach. He died of ruptured intestines. That was hard to deal with and it was only pictures.

I wish you guys could see what is in my head. I see a young guy laying in a dry creek bed, with his head under the fender of his overturned truck. He'd been ejected in a flip and the truck rolled over on his head. The fender was flat on the bedrock. I won't describe his head.

I wish you could see the guy that got thrown from his Grand Prix in a head-on with a F-350 dualie. He got under the Grand Prix and the F-350 pushed it 50 yards down the road. We had to remove the car from the body.When the coroner told one of the fire boys to grab the guy's feet, the firefighter went to the wrong end of the body. Seriously, you couldn't tell the body parts apart. Most of them were somewhere down the road anyway.

I wish you could see the guy that got partially ejected from his pickup window as it overturned on the guardrail. Never mind. I don't wish anybody could see that one.

I wish you could see my friend hanging out of the window of his Dakota. His legs were tangled in the steering wheel, his head near the ground. His neck was broken from hitting the door post on the way out. I had to pull him out and put him on a stretcher. He left 2 kids. I sat in his Dakota and I swear the steering wheel hadn't even been moved out of place. The glass wasnt' even broken. Had his belt been on, he would have been sore from the straps, maybe some whiplash. But he didn't wear it and he died in a survivable wreck and it pisses me off because he was smarter than that.

I wish you could see my coworker's husband. His Chrysler was hardly dented, a very fixable wreck, but his head hit the glass and he was dead when we got there. He was turned sideways with his head on the dash. Not a mark on him but the impact broke his neck.

I've seen wrecks that were not survivable where the belts were used. Sometimes nothing is enough. But I know you are much more protected by being held in place than by flying around inside the car or far worse, outside the car. If you leave the car in a wreck, your chances go way down.

Wear your seat belts.

[KYhunter79]

Always wear mine and tell my passengers to do the same. I don't want to responsible for someone else dying.

[KYHUNTER14]

I have heard of wrecks where people would have been killed had they been wearing their seatbelts. Once was because the car caught fire, the other because the truck went into a creek. Both times the person was ejected, but lived.

Anything can happen at any time, but if you are just playing the percentages, wearing the seat belt is the safest choice.

[KYHUNTER14]

About the school bus issue...

I've trained on those things. If you have about a day to waste, try to cut a hole in the side of one. They are built like tanks. There is no safer way to travel than on a big yellow school bus, I guarantee.

They have studied seat belts on buses to hell and back, and the DOT says that kids are better off without them because of the evacuation time. The seats of a bus actually are designed to cushion and take the force of a child's impact. I used to have a very technical website on my favorites that detailed all the reasons kids are better off without them, but I lost it. Anyway, that argument doesn't carry over to passenger vehicles. Two totally separate things.

Chessy, I am very curious about how seat belts took the lives of your friends. I've seen pretty unpleasant post mortem photographs of kids that died of internal injuries because a seat belt was improperly worn. If the strap is across the belly instead of the waist, it can cause harm. I saw a photograph of a 12 year old boy laying naked on the exam table. He didn't have a mark except for a dark bruise line running across his naval and stomach. He died of ruptured intestines. That was hard to deal with and it was only pictures.

I wish you guys could see what is in my head. I see a young guy laying in a dry creek bed, with his head under the fender of his overturned truck. He'd been ejected in a flip and the truck rolled over on his head. The fender was flat on the bedrock. I won't describe his head.

I wish you could see the guy that got thrown from his Grand Prix in a head-on with a F-350 dualie. He got under the Grand Prix and the F-350 pushed it 50 yards down the road. We had to remove the car from the body.When the coroner told one of the fire boys to grab the guy's feet, the firefighter went to the wrong end of the body. Seriously, you couldn't tell the body parts apart. Most of them were somewhere down the road anyway.

I wish you could see the guy that got partially ejected from his pickup window as it overturned on the guardrail. Never mind. I don't wish anybody could see that one.

I wish you could see my friend hanging out of the window of his Dakota. His legs were tangled in the steering wheel, his head near the ground. His neck was broken from hitting the door post on the way out. I had to pull him out and put him on a stretcher. He left 2 kids. I sat in his Dakota and I swear the steering wheel hadn't even been moved out of place. The glass wasnt' even broken. Had his belt been on, he would have been sore from the straps, maybe some whiplash. But he didn't wear it and he died in a survivable wreck and it pisses me off because he was smarter than that.

I wish you could see my coworker's husband. His Chrysler was hardly dented, a very fixable wreck, but his head hit the glass and he was dead when we got there. He was turned sideways with his head on the dash. Not a mark on him but the impact broke his neck.

I've seen wrecks that were not survivable where the belts were used. Sometimes nothing is enough. But I know you are much more protected by being held in place than by flying around inside the car or far worse, outside the car. If you leave the car in a wreck, your chances go way down.

Wear your seat belts.


Gonna make sure I wear mine after reading this.

[reivertom]

I had 60's cars up into the early 90's and seatbelts weren't an issue. They didn't have them. I then met my wife and everything changed. Now I always wear mine and if I don't, my wife and kids let me know in a hurry. When they aren't with me I still think about them scolding me! How can I argue with them? They are right! I got by with it for many years and I felt like my luck would soon run out so now it's automatic.

I too have cut people out of mangled cars during the 12 years I was firefighter, but for some reason I never thought about me wearing a seatbelt as being necessary. It's funny how a woman can tame the reckless beast!

[NonTyp]

After having a bad wreck in 2003 and cheating death, I always wear mine!

[12 pointer]

About the school bus issue...

I've trained on those things. If you have about a day to waste, try to cut a hole in the side of one. They are built like tanks. There is no safer way to travel than on a big yellow school bus, I guarantee.

They have studied seat belts on buses to hell and back, and the DOT says that kids are better off without them because of the evacuation time. The seats of a bus actually are designed to cushion and take the force of a child's impact. I used to have a very technical website on my favorites that detailed all the reasons kids are better off without them, but I lost it. Anyway, that argument doesn't carry over to passenger vehicles. Two totally separate things.

Chessy, I am very curious about how seat belts took the lives of your friends. I've seen pretty unpleasant post mortem photographs of kids that died of internal injuries because a seat belt was improperly worn. If the strap is across the belly instead of the waist, it can cause harm. I saw a photograph of a 12 year old boy laying naked on the exam table. He didn't have a mark except for a dark bruise line running across his naval and stomach. He died of ruptured intestines. That was hard to deal with and it was only pictures.

I wish you guys could see what is in my head. I see a young guy laying in a dry creek bed, with his head under the fender of his overturned truck. He'd been ejected in a flip and the truck rolled over on his head. The fender was flat on the bedrock. I won't describe his head.

I wish you could see the guy that got thrown from his Grand Prix in a head-on with a F-350 dualie. He got under the Grand Prix and the F-350 pushed it 50 yards down the road. We had to remove the car from the body.When the coroner told one of the fire boys to grab the guy's feet, the firefighter went to the wrong end of the body. Seriously, you couldn't tell the body parts apart. Most of them were somewhere down the road anyway.

I wish you could see the guy that got partially ejected from his pickup window as it overturned on the guardrail. Never mind. I don't wish anybody could see that one.

I wish you could see my friend hanging out of the window of his Dakota. His legs were tangled in the steering wheel, his head near the ground. His neck was broken from hitting the door post on the way out. I had to pull him out and put him on a stretcher. He left 2 kids. I sat in his Dakota and I swear the steering wheel hadn't even been moved out of place. The glass wasnt' even broken. Had his belt been on, he would have been sore from the straps, maybe some whiplash. But he didn't wear it and he died in a survivable wreck and it pisses me off because he was smarter than that.

I wish you could see my coworker's husband. His Chrysler was hardly dented, a very fixable wreck, but his head hit the glass and he was dead when we got there. He was turned sideways with his head on the dash. Not a mark on him but the impact broke his neck.

I've seen wrecks that were not survivable where the belts were used. Sometimes nothing is enough. But I know you are much more protected by being held in place than by flying around inside the car or far worse, outside the car. If you leave the car in a wreck, your chances go way down.

Wear your seat belts.

It took you sometime to type this. I thank you. You may just have saved someone's life.

[Buford]

100%
no brainer
I dislike pain

[MsgMills]

100%
no brainer
I dislike pain

Yeah, I'm allergic to it for sure......So I do everything I can to avoid it.....:)

[Foam Steak]

I have spent 24 years cutting and prying people out of wrecks. I've seen many cases where people died that would have lived with hardly a scratch if they had worn a belt.

Exactly, I was only on volunteer fire department for 3 years but that was my experence as well. I have seen cars that were so mangled and twisted you would think no one could have survived, and the driver is up and walking around with no visible injurys. Guess what, they were wearing there seatbelt.

I have also seen just the opposite. A car that has almost no damage and looks to be drivable accept for the spiderweb cracks in the windshield where someones face smacked into it. Evidence the driver was not wearing a seat belt.

I know of a few instances where someone survived an accident as a direct result of them NOT wearing there seatbelt. But that is an acception to the rule. Odds are you are better off wearing one, so why not play the odds?

[Ky'sFinest]

About the school bus issue...

I've trained on those things. If you have about a day to waste, try to cut a hole in the side of one. They are built like tanks. There is no safer way to travel than on a big yellow school bus, I guarantee.

They have studied seat belts on buses to hell and back, and the DOT says that kids are better off without them because of the evacuation time. The seats of a bus actually are designed to cushion and take the force of a child's impact. I used to have a very technical website on my favorites that detailed all the reasons kids are better off without them, but I lost it. Anyway, that argument doesn't carry over to passenger vehicles. Two totally separate things.

Chessy, I am very curious about how seat belts took the lives of your friends. I've seen pretty unpleasant post mortem photographs of kids that died of internal injuries because a seat belt was improperly worn. If the strap is across the belly instead of the waist, it can cause harm. I saw a photograph of a 12 year old boy laying naked on the exam table. He didn't have a mark except for a dark bruise line running across his naval and stomach. He died of ruptured intestines. That was hard to deal with and it was only pictures.

I wish you guys could see what is in my head. I see a young guy laying in a dry creek bed, with his head under the fender of his overturned truck. He'd been ejected in a flip and the truck rolled over on his head. The fender was flat on the bedrock. I won't describe his head.

I wish you could see the guy that got thrown from his Grand Prix in a head-on with a F-350 dualie. He got under the Grand Prix and the F-350 pushed it 50 yards down the road. We had to remove the car from the body.When the coroner told one of the fire boys to grab the guy's feet, the firefighter went to the wrong end of the body. Seriously, you couldn't tell the body parts apart. Most of them were somewhere down the road anyway.

I wish you could see the guy that got partially ejected from his pickup window as it overturned on the guardrail. Never mind. I don't wish anybody could see that one.

I wish you could see my friend hanging out of the window of his Dakota. His legs were tangled in the steering wheel, his head near the ground. His neck was broken from hitting the door post on the way out. I had to pull him out and put him on a stretcher. He left 2 kids. I sat in his Dakota and I swear the steering wheel hadn't even been moved out of place. The glass wasnt' even broken. Had his belt been on, he would have been sore from the straps, maybe some whiplash. But he didn't wear it and he died in a survivable wreck and it pisses me off because he was smarter than that.

I wish you could see my coworker's husband. His Chrysler was hardly dented, a very fixable wreck, but his head hit the glass and he was dead when we got there. He was turned sideways with his head on the dash. Not a mark on him but the impact broke his neck.

I've seen wrecks that were not survivable where the belts were used. Sometimes nothing is enough. But I know you are much more protected by being held in place than by flying around inside the car or far worse, outside the car. If you leave the car in a wreck, your chances go way down.

Wear your seat belts.


good post. wear the seat belts guys. there are all sorts of protective gear made for many different activities and they are there for a reason. don't be stupid.

[KY_Fried]

I was in a wreck when I was in high school and was told by the police that if I had my seat belt on I would have died. I still wear mine every time I drive though. I figured the chances of that happening again are slim to none.

[lab]

Anyone watch Grey's Anatomy last night? The very thing that his thread is talking about happened in that show. A 16 year old girl died because of sever head trama. Talking one minute like anyone else, the next she was laying on the operating table with her head open.

Even though it was just a t.v. show, the same principles apply. Buckle up guys. Your family wants you home safe.

[KYHUNTER14]

Anyone watch Grey's Anatomy last night? The very thing that his thread is talking about happened in that show. A 16 year old girl died because of sever head trama. Talking one minute like anyone else, the next she was laying on the operating table with her head open.

Even though it was just a t.v. show, the same principles apply. Buckle up guys. Your family wants you home safe.


Who is in charge of deducting "man" points around here???

[trust me]

Who is in charge of deducting "man" points around here???

He's a newlywed. He gets a one-year exemption.

[treed in ky]

Why would you not. A simple act which takes five seconds can save your life. COMPLETELY worth it.

[luckydawg]

I do,,, I have 2 little girls that i want to be with and around for a long time to come.

[KYHUNTER14]

He's a newlywed. He gets a one-year exemption.


Fair enough, but I am keeping my eye on him.

[Hammer]

I wear mine and have faithfully since I broke a windshield with my head as a child. I don't remember people wearing them in the 70s like they do now. :o

Also, I've never been a first-responder like Trust Me, but I've had plenty of patients in Rehab who were in car accidents, and all the histories have one thing in common... "Unrestrained" (passenger/driver).