Why do people drive with their seatsbelts behind their seats?

[Draconia2]

I quite agree - every time I see one of these idiots doing that I realise why they are in such menial jobs - they have zero intelligence - and that goes for every idiot who thinks that he can beat the odds!

i drive a tank (85 opel kadett) and even though im relatively safe, i never ever drive without seat belts because accidents can happen even if you are at a local resort or on your way there and you do get random metro and they will fine you no matter day or night.

[HapticSimian]

i drive a tank (85 opel kadett) and even though im relatively safe, i never ever drive without seat belts because accidents can happen even if you are at a local resort or on your way there and you do get random metro and they will fine you no matter day or night.

Don't lull yourself into a false sense of security; in new car vs old car, new car will win. Your almost 30-year old car will do one of two things in an accident, either 1) fall to pieces, transferring much of energy to your squishy self, or 2) react like it's made of cast iron, transferring much of the energy to your squishy self. You are more vulnerable than the cute girl in the Yaris next to you, not safer. Drive carefully.

Kudos on always buckling up though.

[Peder]

As usual lad, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. You do not understand the concepts of statistics, let alone logic. Your logic is irrational, which is what I was pointing out. To say that it warrants as much respect or even time as those opposing it is just ridiculous...

As usual old man, you think you are better than anyone else...

[Peder]

I put my belt on even if I'm moving the car from end of a parking lot to another. It's really become second nature. Good luck for those times you feel like krap.

i'll usually be driving just down the road and realise for a moment i didn't have my seatbelt on at which time i put it on, just so you know, but of course you can't see it like that can you?

[DJ...]

As usual old man, you think you are better than anyone else...

No, your argument has been refuted by, well, everyone. Stop trying to turn this into something it isn't now with your childish antics...

[Peder]

He says he feels perfectly okay about it though, because there are rare circumstances in which wearing the seatbelt could have been worse. So he's happy. Until the time he puts the 5 year old in the front seat without a belt (because he's just going down the road) and the 3 year old in the back with no car seat because they're expensive. And gets t-boned by a careless driver. Absolutely ridiculous logic. But he wants us to accept his logic as perfectly reasonable, just because...

I never said i would not seatbelt my kids or use a car seat for that matter, but as usual you have a vendetta, so you have to be an a-hole...

[Peder]

No, your argument has been refuted by, well, everyone. Stop trying to turn this into something it isn't now with your childish antics...

i NEVER said what i do is right, and the law, i am just saying that everything isn't black and white...

[DJ...]

i'll usually be driving just down the road and realise for a moment i didn't have my seatbelt on at which time i put it on, just so you know, but of course you can't see it like that can you?

So what on earth is your argument, because your inconsistent babble is getting tough to make out now?

[DJ...]

Now peder stop being such a coward. If you have a problem with anything I've posted here in this thread then quote it and respond to it. No need for private messages accusing me of being all and sundry things under the sun. Grow up, little man...

[Draconia2]

Don't lull yourself into a false sense of security; in new car vs old car, new car will win. Your almost 30-year old car will do one of two things in an accident, either 1) fall to pieces, transferring much of energy to your squishy self, or 2) react like it's made of cast iron, transferring much of the energy to your squishy self. You are more vulnerable than the cute girl in the Yaris next to you, not safer. Drive carefully.

Kudos on always buckling up though.

the reason i call it a "tank"


some narl with his plastic yaris did infact bump my moms 2L kadett a long time ago, leaving her with a small dent on the boot and his nose completely strewn across the street and nothing left over of the front.

lolz

but ya, no car is actually "safe" ..... ok maybe a monster truck... to some extent

[flashsa]

/awaits Peder vs. DJ thread ........... with ABZO looking on

[Messugga]

the reason i call it a "tank"


some narl with his plastic yaris did infact bump my moms 2L kadett a long time ago, leaving her with a small dent on the boot and his nose completely strewn across the street and nothing left over of the front.

lolz

but ya, no car is actually "safe" ..... ok maybe a monster truck... to some extent

At low speed the older cars will take significantly less damage but at high speed, you actually want your car to come apart as that loses energy. With the tanks, your body is the weakest bit in the system and will attempt to absorb a relatively large amount of energy. That's bad because that's what breaks you.