Hot Topic (2/26): Seat Belts - Do you wear them?

[Cafe GroupAdmin]

Would you wear a seat belt if it wasn't required by law?

Do the school busses in your area have seat belts?

 

Seat Belt Laws

Seat belt laws are divided into two categories: primary and secondary. Primary seat belt laws allow law enforcement officers to ticket a driver for not wearing a seat belt, without any other traffic offense taking place. Secondary seat belt laws state that law enforcement officers may issue a ticket for not wearing a seat belt only when there is another citable traffic infraction.

• 26 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands have primary seat belt laws.
• 23 states have secondary laws.
• New Hampshire has enacted neither a primary nor a secondary seat belt law for adults, although the state does have a primary child passenger safety law that covers children under 18.

[Amybelle]

Absolutely ALL the time.

[resamerie]

All the time! I drive my DD to school so I don't know what seatbelt regulations are in place for buses, but I have a bad feeling that they're not being carried out. Who can drive a bus and make sure at the same time that everyone is strapped in the entire time? 

[misskimmy62]

If we do not wear our seat belts, we would be listening to every bell, whistle and alarm known to mankind ... my husbands car actually has sensors built in the seats and will let you know, loudly, if someone is violating the seatbelt law- great fun when my purse, or my dog is sitting in the seat.

[JJTaylor]

Always!  We also live in Washington state and have a pretty tough seat belt law. 

The buses in our community are not considered primary; I often wonder about that exact issue, we always drive our daughter to school, however, she begs and gets to ride the bus home a couple days a week; she finds it as a reward, course she's only in kindergarten and hasn't decided it's not cool yet!  I can only assume the reason they (the school) doesn't require seat belts on buses is because some kids would have several issues, being that there is only one adult per all those students on the buses daily for each bus, I cannot see how they could be getting up and down and monitoring that all the kids were following the rules accordingly.  I know that some buses have video cameras running during activities on the bus, but, I am not sure our local school system uses them. 

[Kittismama]

On March 13, 1997 I was in a car accident.  My then husband was driving the car and lost control, he went off the road and the car slid sideways till it flipped into the air landing upside down on my corner first.  The ambulance report from that night says my neck was broken...fortunately that was wrong.  However I did have a concussion, and my head was torn, a 5cm full depth laceration...meaning all the way to the bone. 

12 years later, I finally have most of my vision back, I went from 20/20 in both eyes to 20/70 in one eye that night, now at my last eye exam I was up to 20/30...not bad at all.  I will never remember part of my teenage years, although every now and then I get flashbacks or temporary memories of bits of the parts I generally don't know.  In high school they tested my IQ and I scored a 176...now I am closer to a 150...I don't know exactly because I have only tested at those website ones and don't know how accurate they are.  I suffer some short term memory loss.  I don't see the passage of time as others do, and my memories seem to work differently then most people.  I can't picture what my baby looked like the first time I saw her...only remember the facts and occurrences as if they had been written down with no images.  I will never be the same person I was before that night.

I was wearing my seatbelt.  Without it I wouldn't be here as any person, my daughter wouldn't exist at all.  I never ever move the car unless everyone in it is seatbelted in.  I won't even drive from my mailbox into my garage without all belts on.

[Imma...]

I also live in WA state if if the motor is ON so better be one's seatbelt or the red & blue lights is what you can see.  $201 ticket.

I would most definately "occasionally" wear it if it weren't a law. I grew up through my infant and teen years without such a law.  While I know they save lives they also lose lives because some who might be able to get out if unseatbelted now are restrained from doing so.

If they want to give LOWER insurance rates for seatbelting in...or the like...GREAT, but to make it a LAW means freedom is lost.  Quite amazing how many fight for the FREEDOM to choose to kill an unborn child while at the same time fight for taking the freedom of choice to wear or not to wear a seatbelt . 

A seatbelt is not 100% saving a life if worn or not worn...abortion done the correct way always ends in death....I know there are botched abortions, but not the norm.  Aren't all lives precious?  Buckle up and don't abort!!! 

 

[Chickadee]

I live in New Hampshire and I always wear a seatbelt. I wish my state would make it the law just like all the others. I always get after my husband about wearing his seatbelt because he rarely does and he has a long drive to work. It really worries me.  

[forsythia_18]

Yes.  I'd rather not be viciously thrown out a window during an accident.

[MissMarce]

 I always wear seat belts. I remind everyone who leaves my door to buckle up. I lost my brother in a car accident. He had a lap belt not the shoulder harness on. It wasn't his car. The air bags shot him up into the roof which broke his neck. I adamant about wearing seat belts.  Our schools say the back of the seats are high enough.

[IdaKaye]

I am not a reliable seat belt wearer.  Why?  I am miserable in one.  I have an older car, I am short, overweight, big busted, and they simply don't fit right.  It usually rubs my neck, no matter what I do.