How did we survive so long without wearing seatbelts?

slow_play69

I think if you are an adult you should be allowed to make the decision whether or not to where a seatbelt. Anyone under age 18 should have to where one.

I hear ya. We did not have all the child proofing, Under the sink in my parents kitchen was all the cleaning supplies. The sockets weren't all covered up. Somehow we survived.

Sad Mom

Well my uncle was driving a Chevy Chevette years ago and did not have a seatbelt on. He hit a 10 point Buck and it came through the windshield. Its good that he didnt have his seatbely on because the impact threw him to the passenger floorboard.
It forced the deer antlers into the drivers seat where his chest would have been if he was locked in by a seatbelt.

RegRegan

You were lucky!!!!! Lot's of people didn't survive not wearing a seatbelt! They can't tell their story as their dead after going through the windscreen of their car. What a pretty sight it would be to have to turn up to an accident and see people hanging out of the windscreen of their car, or lying on the road after being ejected from their car, or finding a mother and her baby slumped in the frontseat after being smashed against the windscreen and dashboard. If I were you, I would by a lotto ticket

Rich

your one of those "SMART" people.. lots of idiots that manage to somehow fall of their bike without a helmet and hit the side of the curb.. well those are what we consider "IDIOTS" JA JA.. anyway.. lucky you.. ohh and i too was one of those people that survived for such a great period of time without cracking my head open.. and my parents NEVER got a ticket for my antics!!!

webman

Safety rules are a result of incidence which resulted in death or injuries. When you were a child, did you read the news paper or watch the news? For instance, my aunt and uncle had a car accident in 1954 which resulted in my cousin being being ejected from the car. She was 2 years old and was injured but not severely. My uncle never drove again.
I'm sure you can find thousands of stories from the good old days when all the trim was steel and not too nice to bounce off of.
I was wearing seat belts years before they were mandatory, it just made sense.

tw2251stst

By not using cell phones and getting into accidents!

scafool

Well it is because us of the older generation were all such tough to kill little beggars when we were young!

thugtwin1@sbcglobal.net

It's called caution to the wind, and in today's society, this is a poor approach since drivers now are not concerned with driving, but applying lipstick, talking on the damn phone, and making sure the volume on the radio is at a decibel level somewhere around a deafening rock concert. But believe me I grew kup where riding in hte back of a pick-up truck was a treat, not a sentence of shun.

Johnny Speed

You followed the regulations of the natural world. No one can escape those. We still follow them, only now we're much more scared, but we also know a lot more. When people drove around without seatbelts, the government was also preaching to 'duck and cover' if the case of a nuclear blast. Now, they tell us to put duct tape on windows in a gas attack. It's really a wonder anyone survived then or continues to now.

theskullknows

when you were growing up there were a lot less cars on the road

ceprn

Luck. And less people were driving. And the suburbs hadn't developed yet.

Face it, they save lives, so why do you have a compleint?

Janet K

YOU survived; many people did not.

Dale P

Lucky. You weren't involved in that serious of an accident. I have a scar on the side of my head from the no seat belt days as a kid. I remember when holiday traffic death tools were big news every year. We survived, but many others didn't. The drop in deaths due to accidents has been substantial over the last 30-40 years. There are a lot of statistics who would love to swap places with us today.

As far as adults should be able to choose to wear a seat belt....who's going to raise their kids who were safely strapped in after their idiot parents went flying through the windshield?

No...accidents aren't the means of thinning out the human herds. Wars and disease maybe, but not that.

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