Why do we have to buckle up our seat belts when we are in the car??

FL Girl

If you are in an accident, it could save your life.

oklatom

Actually a couple of reasons. First, it's the law, and it can cost you a ticket if you don't. Secondly, it can save your life.

http://buckleup.ifas.ufl.edu/SEATBELTS.HTM

Bapboy

Well, cos they'd be pretty useless otherwise...

crane1951@sbcglobal.net

TO SAVE YOUR LIFE. IT SAVED MY LIFE.

dukalink6000

Aside from the fact it is a law, your chances of surviving a car wreck are better with it on, than not

bubbles_grandpa

That is Big Brother making your mind up for you. Then if you don't wear it, they fine you, so also a money maker.

Think about this one. In Indiana you have to wear a seatbelt for "safety" but do not have to wear a helmet on a motorcycle.

Plus,,,,, Why do you have to wear a seatbelt on a plane? If it crashes, just gonna cut you in half anyway.

No one claims the laws have comman sense.

Tom Da Bomb

so that our legs don't fly up and hit our heads during a crash

Nutsters-ChickÂ©

coz back seat passengers can damage or kill front seat passengers in a crash, if they're not restrained.
and front seat passengers can fly threw the wind-screen.
even with air-bags, it's still advisable 2 buckle-up.

clunck-click-with-every-trip.

costa

The law says so

To keep you from hitting the windshield, or being flung around and ejected from the car, should you be involved in a collission.

Ryder

cause they dont work very well if you dont buckle em up what a dum *** question

Naomi

So we get a 5% discount on our car insurance and depending on where we live, we save the $50 ticket we get from the cop who catches us.

a99blkdog

so u don't smash you pretty face during an accident

yabyum11

To stop you flying through the windscreen when you have a rear or head on crash.

Wildamberhoney

Um, let's see. Could it be so that we don't fly through the windscreen when we crash?! Just a suggestion.

Mr Cynical

in an accident you will be more likely to get badly injured without a seat belt

Charles-CeeJay_UK_ USA/CheekyLad

Because God, AKA the laws of the land say we must!
--CJ "That Cheeky Lad!"

Charles S

Most people will say that it is so you will be safe in an accident, but if it is the law that you have to buckle up, then its more of an insurance thing. If there is a law that says you have to use your seat belt, then the entire area will benefit from having lower insurance rates. Also it helps to keep un-insured drivers and passengers from costly medical bills that will mostly be paid by social security or taken as a loss from the hospitals. If the hospitals take a loss on 75000 dollars worth of medical treatment, they are going to pass it on to the next guy with insurance, so having your seat belt on helps to keep your health insurance rates down too.

b-b-b-brengun

Because of the likelihood of suffering from brain damage in the event of an accident.

However, in your case you have obviously been lobotomised!

Amanda Kate

Um, so that you're less likely to get injured in an accident - eg if you're wearing your seatbelt you're not going to go flying through the windscreen.

txcatwoman

because it is the law

traveler_90712

Because it is the LAW!
And it keeps you from being thrown around or out of the vehicle when your in an accident.

taxed till i die,and then some.

Because it is the law,and for personnel safety

crashguy351

Among passenger vehicle occupants over 4 years old, safety belts saved an estimated 15,434 lives in 2004.

According to NHTSAâ€™s The Economic Impact of Motor Vehicle Crashes 2000, the use of safety belts saved society $585 billion in medical care, lost productivity, and other injury-related economic costs (since 1975).

When lap/shoulder safety belts are used properly, they reduce the risk of fatal injury to front-seat occupants riding in passenger cars by 45 percent and the risk of moderate-to-critical injury by 50 percent. For light-truck front-seat occupants, safety belts reduce the risk of fatal injury by 60 percent and the risk of moderate-to-critical injury by 65 percent.

Ejection from passenger vehicles is one of the most harmful events that can happen to people during a crash. In passenger vehicle crashes in which someone died in 2004, 21 percent of occupants who were killed were completely ejected from the vehicle. Safety belts are effective in preventing total ejections. In 2004, in crashes in which someone was killed, only 3 percent of the occupants using restraints were totally ejected, compared with 37 percent of unrestrained occupants.

Twenty-seven percent of 16- to 20-year-old occupant fatalities were ejections, compared with 21 percent for the general population, illustrating the need to promote safety belt use in this age group.

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/airbags/MVOP2004/pages/TheNeedtoPromote.htm

red devil

Is anybody on a death wish out there?? lol
It can save your life and stop you going flying through the window screen if the car comes to an emergency halt!
Have you never seen all thoes saftey adverts on the tv?

cavatina_2005

It minimises the chances of you going flying through the windscreen and/or getting more injured. the shock of the crash will lock the belt and kinda stop you shooting forward. Try it yourself pull the seatbelt slowley and it will be ok but pull it hard it wont move. So the seatbelt will save your life in an event of an accident.

cheyan

lets be serious. to save lives

Been There~Done That!

A little bit of common sense needed here.

sonoftazont

its the law but it should be up the us i almost died because i had a seat belt on. and when i was kid my friend s seatbelt tore into her stomach because she had it on she died a few days after i never make anybody do there belts up

Leopold Bloom

Because if u you have a crash the the seatbelt may save your life/

Sexy Vamp

Err, because if you don't buckle it, it wouldn't work in an accident and you'd be thrown threw the windscreen and probaly die.

Your choice I suppose.

eb11

i was in a crash wasnt wearing a seatbelt was ejected from the back window, multiple fractures to vertebrae neck and skull. Lucky to still be here. If i was wearing seatbelt i probably wouldnt have sustained any injuries. Always where a seatbelt, even if you dont want to your putting someone elses life at risk by not wearing one.

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