my lady friend doesn't let me back the car out without a seatbelt on. she can say with reasonable certainty that it saved her life a few years back when someone ran her off the highway and her car rolled. you are an idiot if you do not wear a seatbelt indeed.

im in no means anti-seatbelt wearing but there are also stories where lives have been saved in an accident by not wearing seatbelts

Yeah, 1 in 10000000 instances. Wanna buy a bridge?

trikes ftw! and i always wear a seatbelt, maybeeee if i'm moving in the driveway or something stupid like that i won't. on the road, always got it on.

how much is said bridge?

please site your statistic. and i already bought a bridge last week.

Don't be a moron. You brought up ******** anecdotal nonsense when you said "there are also stories where lives have been saved in an accident by not wearing seatbelts". You go prove your point. I think anyone in their right mind knows seat belts save lives.

There are stories of saskwatch too. Go find him while you're at it. Maybe he's wearing his seat belt.

And to be on topic, I did not get a ticket for lack of seatbelt, cause, I wear mine.

Anyone read the paper? There was a cobalt that was in an accident and the driver was thrown 55 ft.... I guess that was his god given right? ....

Yup. And it is our 'right' to pay the excess in medical costs via increased insurance costs and such.

Just a quick search, it came up with no .orgs or .edu so this may be off...

"On average, inpatient hospital care costs for an unbelted crash victim are 50 percent higher than those for a belted crash victim. Society bears 85 percent of those costs, not the individuals involved. Every American pays about $580 a year toward the cost of crashes. If everyone buckled up, this figure would drop significantly.

By reaching the goal of 90 percent seat belt use, and 25 percent reduction in child fatalities, we will save $8.8 billion annually."

Let's put it this way. Nobody would care that you don't wear your seatbelt if the EMTs were allowed to let your dumb ass bleed and die for being a retard. But they aren't. So because you choose to not wear safety equipment everybody in your area has to pay to clean up the mess you create.

I was too slow. But thank you for solidifying my point.

The state even gives you a nice constant reminder...

noice! though different stickers have different things.....

Damn it!

agreed ha ha

its not like you get to choose, you get what you get.

You were lucky you didnt get a DUI, Vicoden is a narcotic and under the influence of a narcotic can grant you a DUI, im suprised the hospital let you drive, i work at one and once someone takes a narcotic we make sure they have a ride home.


My Best friend in high schools brother died in a car accident on a sunday afternoon on the parkway because he was wearing a seatbelt.....his dad who was in the car was saved because he was ejected out of the vehicle....

so who is to say he wasn't ejected out of the car and onto his head?? sorry bout the loss but you can't say he would have lived if the seat belt wasn't on.

Oh i know what your saying, im not taking any side to this arguement, i wear my seat belt all the time but it was just an example of when the seatbelt killed someone.

Welcome to the 1 in 10000000. Although you assume he would have survived if he had been ejected - if he would have even been ejected. Not every person whop does not wear a belt is ejected.

My condolences to your friend's family & friends.

i got one on monday morning by a state trooper

he goes something about "giving seat belt tickets isnt the highlight of my career" blah blah. he asked me twice why i wasnt wearing my seatbelt. i just said i always wear it and forgot to put it on.

i was ****ing pissed when he came back with the ticket, i didnt say a word to him.

how hard would you need to be rear ended for your face to hit the windshield? im pretty sure youd be decapitated by then.

not that hard....i was rear ended when i didnt have my seat belt on and my fore head smacked the windshield.... hence why i wear it now lol. you would be suprised by how hard an impact feels at such slow speeds like 20 mph.

They had me wait 90min

meh i dont care about the seat belt law anyway, just wish it would become a secondary offense and not able to be pulled over for it