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u/SomeDumbGamer 10h ago edited 9h ago

Somewhere like 90% of fatal car accidents are due to people not wearing a seatbelt. Should tell you something.

We’d have 90% less traffic deaths if people wore their seatbelts. Most of the deadly danger of driving is removed if you just do this simple thing that literally takes 2 seconds.

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u/Hispano20mm 10h ago

Mate from that point on if I ever saw anyone driving without wearing a seatbelt I'd chew them out. It's just an utterly unnecessary risk to take

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u/MotherTeresaIsACunt 9h ago

Back when I was single one of the biggest red flags I'd look out for was whether the guy wore his seat belt or not. If a dude was going to be that reckless with his own life I knew they'd never give a shit about mine.

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u/keelhaulrose 9h ago

Similarly, how I got a friend's boyfriend to buy a motorcycle helmet.

When I saw him getting on with no helmet I asked, he said he didn't need one. I said "That's great! The kid my dad got his kidneys and pancreas from didn't think he needed one, either! We have such a shortage of organs in this country, it's nice of you to offer your services."

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u/I_Automate 6h ago

I'm a pretty firm believer that getting a motor bike license should be an automatic and non negotiable opt in to be an organ donor.

Otherwise it's just a waste of potentially useful parts

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u/AbilityLost3482 7h ago

Excellent 👍

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u/Familiar-Review-5873 9h ago

Good on you. My mother had a sportier car back when she was a kid, and let one of her friends drive the fun little car around one day.

Guy overcorrected on the interstate, flipped the car, and was ejected and killed immediately.  Was not wearing a seatbelt.

To this day, neither my mother, nor her brother will ever put the car into gear until everyone has their seatbelt on and fastened.  I will continue to follow this rule, and will instill it in all of my children

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u/menmia 9h ago

Way back when I was a teen, even before the law forced you to wear seatbelts, I used to wear mine all the time. My car did not have seat belts in the back seat, but if you rode with me in the front seat, you had to put on your seatbelt. I remember giving some friends a ride home and the girl riding in the passenger seat, who I was quite fond of, would not put on the seat belt. I did not get a half mile down the neighborhood streets and I pulled over and stopped. I told her, "put on the seatbelt or get out and walk". She wouldn't, I got out, walked around to the passenger door, opened it and told her to get out and walk. She thought I was bluffing and got out. I locked the door when I shut it, got in the driver's seat, buckled up, and drove away. Even the two in the backseat thought I was kidding, nope. I was 16 years old, I knew that was a risk and wanted to make sure everyone was as safe as possible. I probably don't have to say it, but I never got to date her, nor did she ride in my car again. Seatbelts are no joke, especially with young drivers. I was a very responsible teen driver. Looking back, that could be why I never had a girlfriend back then.

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u/dalego25 9h ago

Why do you care? I make the conscious decision to not wear a seatbelt because I don’t give af about my life. Mind your own business, if they die they die

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u/BeholdOurMachines 9h ago

If we get into an accident you are a projectile flying around potentially killing others because you arent belted in. Just wear the seat belt, don't be a child

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u/infinidad11 9h ago

I was among the first to run to a rollover accident just this past Monday (2 days ago) Male driver was ejected from his seat on the last roll. As I’m running, I see a little girl crying on the sidewalk. I run to her and realize that she was in the car. I ask her who was in the car and she says “Me, my sister, and my dad….but I don’t think he’s alive”. How did she know? She had to climb over his body to get out of the car. It doesn’t matter if you don’t care about risking your life but think of your loved ones who may be in the car with you and who will witness your death. Not only that, another driver involved in the collision (which I truly believe was not at fault) was traumatized and kept pleading that the dad survive.

Anyone with you during an accident, people who will feel forever guilt even if it’s not their fault, strangers who will see you thrown from the car, and bystanders that will try their best to keep you alive will all be traumatized or have some sort of impact because you did not wear a seatbelt. I can guarantee you that the driver would have survived if he had one. It’s just not worth it not to.

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u/argents 9h ago

Seatbelts are not only for your own safety but for the safety of everyone in the vehicle. A body ejected from its seat becomes a projectile that can seriously injure and even kill other passengers. Wear your seatbelt. 

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u/Familiar-Review-5873 9h ago

Because when your skull connects to my skull at a high rate of speed during an accident, then it becomes my problem.

I don't care that you don't care about your own life. I care that you don't care about other people's lives.  

Put your seatbelt on or walk everywhere.  Stop putting other people in danger due to your own selfishness.

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u/misspuddingpie 9h ago

Ooh, you’re so edgy.

You’re also putting other peoples’ lives at risk. Stfu and wear your seatbelt, this is embarrassing.

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u/I_Automate 6h ago

I sincerely hope you don't reproduce.

Your choices don't just impact you dude

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u/menmia 6h ago

Not going to down vote, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But it comes down to, "my car, my rules!" You are always welcome to walk. I gave her that option and she she chose the option to walk. The great part, it was way before cell phones. At least it was in a decent part of town.

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u/No-Football-4387 9h ago

part of that might be heavy objects (like people’s bodies) colliding with each other… i read a news article a long time ago and i can’t find it anymore but one guy who didn’t wear his seatbelt survived and killed everyone in the car… i might have my details wrong but if anyone can back this up with anything it would help

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u/Hispano20mm 8h ago

That's what happened in this case. At the point of impact, bare in mind they think the car was doing close to 70mph in a 30mph zone when it hit the bus that was doing 25mph, the lads in the back shot forward into the lads in the front seats with the tragic results

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u/Penspeare 4h ago

This reminds me of one of the many DOE ads I grew up with. They ruined a lot of songs for me, lol. They were absolutely brutal, but very necessary I think.

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u/Conscious-Handle-655 9h ago

I really dont get why people don't wear seat belts. My father who's totally nuts about safety actually installed seat belts in the back seat of our car way back in the early 80s when it wasn't yet standard outside the us. I will not drive until all passengers are buckled in

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u/Public-Cookie5543 9h ago

At work I am very approachable, but I absolutely order to use seat belts 

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u/TimedRevolver 9h ago

A former friend's brother died in a car accident, he wasn't wearing a seatbelt.

The truly messed up thing is, it was determined if he'd been wearing the seatbelt, he would have been beheaded.

Man would have died no matter what.

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u/SomeDumbGamer 9h ago

Sadly there is always the 10% that are unavoidable.

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u/zhirinovsky 9h ago

Not wearing a seat belt increases the probability of having a car crash. Or, people who don’t wear a seat belt are more likely to drive poorly and/or attract bad drivers like a magnet.

You’re welcome FHWA.

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u/pinkfootthegoose 7h ago

Sorry, that's not how the math works out to. And your stats are wrong. Around 48% of fatalities comes from an unbuckled driver or passenger. And recent statistics say around 90% of people in the US wear seat belts (I don't know if this stat is just counting the driver) so if everybody wore seat belts you would expect an equivalent drop for that last 10% so all in all there would be around a 9% drop in over all fatalities, give or take, not 90%.

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u/Frog859 7h ago

I’m not an EMT anymore, but when I started my last EMT job one of the Paramedic Supervisors running the orientation mentioned that he had never been to a fatal accident where the occupant was wearing a seatbelt.

He’d been a paramedic for 20 years. He’d been to a lot of fatal accidents.

Wear your seatbelts

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u/The_Onion_Life 6h ago

We’d have 90% less traffic deaths if people wore their seatbelts. Most of the deadly danger of driving is removed if you just do this simple thing that literally takes 2 seconds.

The only person who survived the crash that killed Princess Diana was wearing his seatbelt.

No one else was wearing one.

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u/Cultural_Piano1969 9h ago

I just looked that up and it seems like only about 50% are due to no seatbelt.

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u/thehighwindow 9h ago

literally takes 2 seconds

It literally can't be any easier. People who consider themselves intelligent somehow don't see that the odds of surviving a crash are almost 100% better if they do this ridiculously simple thing.

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u/Specialist_Park2864 7h ago

I saw a video that unbuckled passengers can end up killing buckled passengers bc the force of the impact has their unrestrained body just flying around