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Michael     Send message Joined: 21 Aug 99 Posts: 4608 Credit: 7,427,891 RAC: 18 
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Alien Violet Send message Joined: 27 Nov 09 Posts: 2 Credit: 4,678 RAC: 0 
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http://embracethis.co.uk/ Awesome Michael - thanks for posting. Beautifully done. Here in Canada where we have very strict seat belt laws, some poor soul dies every week in a car accident because they want to be 'thrown clear' without the encumbrances of a seat belt. Oh well... ID: 997145 · |
 Dune Finkleberry  Send message Joined: 22 Sep 99 Posts: 1314 Credit: 1,124,651 RAC: 0
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I firmly believe that my seat saved my life after hitting another guy head-on on Christmas Eve about 15 years ago. Even though I was wearing my seat belt and shoulder harness, I managed to break some ribs from using my chest as a battering ram on the steering column.    
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champ  Send message Joined: 12 Mar 03 Posts: 3642 Credit: 1,489,147 RAC: 0 
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What a great powerful video. Thanks for sharing this with us. ID: 997194 · |
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Dena Wiltsie Send message Joined: 19 Apr 01 Posts: 1628 Credit: 24,230,968 RAC: 26
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When I started driving, my car didn't have a seat belt in it. However, if a car has seat belts, I have always used them. Not only do they protect you in a accident but they also help you maintain better control of the car if you have to make a violent maneuver to avoid an accident. The accidents I have been involved in I was stopped and was rear ended so I an not sure they have saved my life yet, but I will continue to wear them at all times. ID: 997198 · |
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Blurf Send message Joined: 2 Sep 06 Posts: 8962 Credit: 12,678,685 RAC: 0
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Quite honestly I simply don't feel physically comfortable without wearing one.   ID: 997199 · |
KB7RZF  Send message Joined: 15 Aug 99 Posts: 9549 Credit: 3,308,926 RAC: 2
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Quite honestly I simply don't feel physically comfortable without wearing one. I have to agree with you here. Everytime I get into a vehicle, 1st thing I do is reach for that belt. I've lost too many friends from not wearing one. 
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Monday  Send message Joined: 24 Sep 05 Posts: 9676 Credit: 20,067,888 RAC: 12 
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Great clip. Good find Micheal. ID: 997222 · |
Uli  Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10923 Credit: 5,996,015 RAC: 1
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I won't go anywhere, unless everyone it buckeld in. If you don't want the seat belt on you walk. Unbuckel during the drive, I stop and you walk. Pluto will always be a planet to me.  Seti Ambassador Not to late to order an Anni Shirt ID: 997264 · |
John McLeod VII  Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0
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I know someone that was in an accident. She was driven by a police officer across the road to the shoulder (multi lane road). Upon entering the police car, she started swearing about the difficulty of buckling a broken seat belt. When the police officer in charge (a different person) asked if she was wearing a seatbelt, the first officer stated "Trust me, she was wearing a seatbelt!" I feel uncomfortable in a car unless I am wearing a seat belt. The first car I drove did not have seat belts, but we added them to the vehicle shortly after purchase (well before I was of driving age - I got it as a hand me down).   BOINC WIKI ID: 997266 · |
Angela  Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31
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Here in the states I do not think "our generation" is the problem, nor is there a problem with young people not buckling up. For people our age and younger, we buckle up without thinking. It is a highly ingrained motor pattern for most of us. In my experience, the folks who do not automatically buckle up tend to be from my mother's generation, because many of them began driving before seat belts in cars were common. Whenever Eric and I drive my mother someplace, we actually have to check to make sure she has put on her seat belt! One of the saddest cases I've seen in my career as a hospital-based speech pathologist involved a baby who was in a car accident. A sleep deprived father buckled his daughter into her carrier-style car seat, but did not check to see if the car seat itself was buckled into the car that day. Dad had an accident and the baby, strapped firmly into her car seat, became a projectile. The child sustained horrific brain damage. Mom, buckled into the passenger's seat, was mildly head injured in the crash and sustained some mild physical injuries as well. Dad, buckled into the driver's seat, was physically fine, but life as he knew it was over. He was consumed with grief and guilt. It was awful. Even though it has probably been about 15 years since I last saw that family, I imagine the father continues to live each day in horrible emotional pain. Long story short - if you have one of those carrier-style car seats for your baby, never "store it" in the back seat of your car... or if you must, flip the seat upside-down so that the weird position of the seat cues you to buckle the seat into the car before you buckle your baby into the seat. ID: 997275 · |
flight  Send message Joined: 13 Sep 99 Posts: 296 Credit: 976,732 RAC: 0
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On the extremely rare chance that i forget to buckle up before i get to the end of the driveway , my disabled daughter reminds me to buckle up. I also drive transport truck so i always buckle up.   
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kittyman  Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004
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I can tell you a bit about myself and seatbelts....... As a young lad, my Dad never let the car out of the garage without everyone buckled up....that was it....no second thoughts, no excuses. When I got my driver's license at the tender age of 18...full of horsepower dreams and testosterone, I got my first car. A beautiful '62 Olds F85 midnight blue 2 door. And rolled it about a month later. The seatbelt saved my life. No doubt about it. I slid it sideways into a ditch at about 45 mph, hit an asphalt driveway that was not gonna give, did a full gainer into the air, and came down on the roof, collapsing all but 1 roof pillar. If I had not been wearing the seatbelt, I probably stood a good chance at being tossed outta the window onto the driveway where the car landed. Not a good thing. Due to Dad's ingrained lessons.....I usually wore the seatbelt if I was going on the highway or such, but not religiously. Thank the Lord I was wearing it that day. And I was incensed when the Wisconsin lawmakers passed legislation telling me that I HAD to wear it. That was not the point....it was MY choice. But I have never driven a car since that day without buckling up...it is just second nature to me now. It's kinda like those that choose to ride a motorcycle without a helmet.....I believe that is your right, but I also believe you are damned stupid to do so. Buckle up for safety, kitties.... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster 
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gizbar  Send message Joined: 7 Jan 01 Posts: 586 Credit: 21,087,774 RAC: 0 
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I have a story about not wearing a seatbelt. Driving my truck one day, just before I was diagnosed as being a diabetic. I was suffering from it, but just didn't know it yet. And did you know that there are a million undiagnosed diabetics just in the UK alone? But back to the story. I had just had a break, and started off again. Didn't feel great, and wasn't wearing my seatbelt. Company policy was to wear it, now it's compulsory. Rear ended my truck into a stationary artic (semi) at 40 mph. Squashed the cab, with me as the filling. I had 600 litres of liquid oxygen in the tank propelling me forward when I hit the brakes. Took 3 hours to get me out, and luckily, I was ok. Scratched up legs, and two knackered shoulders that are still knackered, and won't ever get better. Police, ambulance, fire service, friends and family all said how lucky it was that I was wearing my seat belt. They still don't know to this day, and I'll never tell them. I was so lucky it's unreal. I got prosecuted and fined because it was 'my fault' as a professional driver, and I was also lucky not to lose my licence. I still have the pictures of the truck to remind me. Do me a favour, and buckle up! regards, Gizbar.  A proud GPU User Server Donor! ID: 997395 · |
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Michael Send message Joined: 21 Aug 99 Posts: 4608 Credit: 7,427,891 RAC: 18
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Totally agree with the helmet issue. I wear mine...not because a law tells me I have to..and I think those who don;t wear one should have a right NOT to...I guess I am pro choice..but that also means I think you are an idiot for not wearing one. ID: 997452 · |
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John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0
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Unfortunately, the state DOES have an interest in riders wearing a helmet. If you are in an accident, and you are under insured, the state picks up the tab. So riders that don't wear helmets are insisting the taxpayers share in the risk. BOINC WIKI ID: 997479 · |
Allie in Vancouver  Send message Joined: 16 Mar 07 Posts: 3949 Credit: 1,604,668 RAC: 0
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Great video, Michael. Often these warning videos are filled with the ugly side of accidents, using love and tenderness to make the message is refreshing. And you can add me to the list of people still around because of them. Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. Albert Einstein ID: 997500 · |
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Michael Send message Joined: 21 Aug 99 Posts: 4608 Credit: 7,427,891 RAC: 18
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I guess we should outlaw alcohol then. ID: 997518 · |
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kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004
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And Big Macs too? Don't go there. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster
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John McLeod VII Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 24806 Credit: 790,712 RAC: 0
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Operating a vehicle while drunk is already prohibited. BOINC WIKI ID: 997706 · |
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