Could be considered graphical for the young ones...

http://thelibertydigest.com/2013/12/26/watch-woman-thrown-end-over-end-from-vehicle-no-seat-belt/

The words were graphic enough for me

I no longer feel comfortable sitting in a travelling vehicle without my seatbelt on

Ugh.
Didn't look like a seat belt would have mattered...

Just looking at the name of the link makes me not want to click it.

That was pretty gnarly.

I have always worn one and my kids the same, lost my Mum to no seatbelt, Aunty who was also in the car survived, pretty banged up but she wore her belt.

That vid was a pretty brutal crash though, don't know if the seatbelt would have saved her, but still. Better on than off, there is no argument for not wearing one.

No seatbelt - walk.

Wearing seatbelts is compulsory over here. Apparently some people only do the smart thing if their wallets are threatened...rather than their health (and that of others when they turn into a meaty and bony projectile).

I cannot understand why anyone wouldn't wear a setbelt. It's Darwinian Selection at work.

+1

Seatbelts and radial tires are the best insurance you can buy.

WC

I've always worn one without even thinking. Had a head-on in my '66 Mustang and was glad I had sprung to put at least lap belts in the front--the car only had lap belts in the back. Bashed my face on the wheel pretty good, but dammit I was in the car.

I drove a VW Bug that didn't have them for years, but always wear them in any other vehicle.

Used to drive a nice 1964 Chevy short bed, step side pick up. Sold it when my oldest son was born (1991) in part because it didn't have seat belts. Since then I've only driven vehicles with seat belts and I always use them.

And I am not so sure that woman would have died in that wreck had she not been thrown from the vehicle. We don't really see the condition of the vehicle after it came to rest AND regardless I have seen some vehicles that appeared to be almost completely destroyed in which people survived, walked away from even.

My father, a retired Illinois State Trooper never wore his seatbelt when we were younger. He was a product of the times, cars didn't have belts in the 50s and early 60s so he didn't wear it.

In 1972 it became mandated that all ISP officers would wear seatbelts while in their car. I remember him complaining about the rule but he complied. Begrudgingly.

One fall day he was on a highway south of Chicago when a guy flew by him. He cranked his 1971 LTD (with a 429 super cobrajet under the hood) and sped off to catch this guy. He had the car up to 80 and was accelerating when a tractor trailer pulled out in front of him. He nailed that truck right in the drivers side wheel. He literally tore the front end off of that truck. He barely had time to press for the brakes and they figured he was doing close to 80 when he nailed the truck. The engine was pushed back into the passenger side of the car. Remember, this was a 71 LTD, not a small car.

He broke four ribs (if I remember right), his pelvis and got generally bashed around in the car, but stayed in the car. He apparently asked the paramedic at the scene if he was dead yet.

He survived. He spent a few weeks in ths hospital, had a limp for a while but has had no negative effects from the accident. He became a religious convert to seatbelts after that. No one gets in his car without wearing them. As an ER and ICU nurse I have seen several ejections from car crashes. Even as slow as 30mph someone can be flung out of a car. People don't land nicely from such an ejection. Imagine parachuting on your head.

That was terrible to watch. That said I always buckle up and not because "Its the law"!

I drove without one for years but I buckle up before I start the car now. Being "thrown clear" was the misguided principle we believed was safer than burning up or drowning in the car if you went into water.


Wheels

Quite graphic, I hope she didn't suffer.
"Clunk Click every trip" was the message given out here when I was a youth. I was brought up around a car repair garage, some of the first jobs I under took in the garage was retrofitting seatbelts to cars that came without them.

My father's garage was the official police garage the was called out in the case of any fatality or if people were trapped within the car as we had the specialist tools for opening up cars, this was in the 1960s, long before the firebrigade took on that role in the UK. We built special patrol cars for the police for use in rescue situations, the old road along Loch Lomond was bad and notorious for it's accidents with a lot of fatalities, especially from people putting their cars in to the loch and these cars were to patrol that sector to try and help cut down the number of deaths along there. The cars were featured on the TV and there were a few magazine articles made about them too. **

Over the years there have been a few accidents I have been to that seatbelts were a menace but by far and away seatbelts help save lives. I always use them and when I met my wife I was shocked that in her car the seat belts were frayed and useless, it was one of the first things I did for her was replace the seatbelts in her Discovery.


** just did a search on them and found this on Ebay!
Pinky and Perky Patrol cars

and more pics here http://www.imps4ever.info/misc/police.html

Ugh,Jimmy Savile

My mum drilled into us kids the need to wear our seat-belts before it was made compulsory (1983 in the UK) so it wasn't a problem to us when the law came in.

I feel naked without mine on. A bit like riding a motorcycle without a helmet.(Is that even allowed anywhere now?)