|
ive seen a 2 or 3 accidents where the lack of using seatbelts saved the drivers life, but yes those are rare. One was my friends 91 dodge daytona, T-boned in the drivers side by some lady doing 50mph through a stop sign. the daytonas driver door was pushed to the center of the car and my friend who was 5"2" was thrown into the passenger seat where he just got a concussion. the drivers seat was crushed to about 4" wide.
personally i always wear my seatbelt, it my SS its one less thing to get hassled about and in my sky.. i dunno i just do. I used to not wear seatbelts ever but in the past 4-5 years unknowingly i started. Id like 5points in my SS but not sure which ones to choose and mount them properly to my roll bar and to the floor, gotta look into that.
Not really related and a lil off topic, .....As for at work here, if you dont wear it, your just stupid. I wear a harness with a 5point type of camlock and then thats all connected to the floor by means of another strap with a quick release. We are all issued seatbelt cutters too which i wear on the front of my vest. Now true... we dont worry about accidents, our trucks would crush anythign here and it would feel like a speed bump to us, but when we took an IED, that belt kept me in the truck and everyone else from flying around. Other cases here not so good. You talk about people getting ejected in car acidents through the front windsheild... now imagine the force to eject a person who DID have their seatbelt on through 3" think bullet proof glass.
|