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I always wear a seat belt ,but didn`t until the law came in in 1983...


My OH is one of the statistics in that survey.......for work drives a transit van, dosn`t wear a seatbelt, and is 49 years old....lol

I`m always telling him to put it on........the only reason he wears one in our car is because the car bleeps at you constantly if you don`t....

Agree hate seeing children on laps in the front...thats one of the most dangerous thing you can do.

My children were always in appropiate car seats and now grandaughters here she is as well.

Quite often i`m travelling behind cars and you can clearly see the car in front has a child in the back standing up between the 2 front seats....I dread to think what would happen if they had to break quickly.....how can people be so stupid where their childs safety is concerned.?.....and as for people still chatting on mobiles while driving with one hand....just don`t get me started on that one.!! lol



Nicky

I never go in a car without a seatbelt on. Years and years ago, before seatbelts were compulsory, or often not even fitted to cars, we did fit them as an extra. (How I hated those old seatbelts you had to adjust, not like the reel ones these days.)

There seem to be so many people around here who don't use their seatbelts and even worse travel around with small children on their lap in the passenger seat. They are usually the transit or transit pickup vehicles. Makes my blood boil!

Elisabeth xx

if i forget i get a telling off by baby satan

Morning Ann,

Like you OH and myself have always worn seat belts even
before they became legal.

Emmax

Always wear your seat belt whether as passenger or driver?


A piece in the local paper about a recent police operation in Cheltenham

Of 800 vehicles surveyed, 31 drivers were not wearing their seatbelt. Of these, 12 were van drivers and seven were lorry drivers.

The ages of the culprits – 3.8 per cent of all drivers surveyed – ranged from men in their 20s to their 60s.

The AA said lessons should be learned from the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, who was not wearing a seatbelt in her fatal car crash in Paris in 1997.

Andrew Howard, head of road safety for the organisation, says the fact men emerged as the main offenders in the Cheltenham survey was fairly typical, but added many women also fail to belt up.

He said: "There is a very strong suggestion that it's the least safe drivers who don't wear seatbelts.

"Young men are road safety problem number one. Not wearing a belt increases your chances of being killed.

"People in more rural parts of Britain are more likely to belt up as most of their journeys are longer."


I have to say that I always wear the belt, sometimes it is difficult, as when taxi drivers take off at speed before you have fastened it but both OH and I always wear it. In fact we had safety belts fitted before it became illegal not to wear them so it is habit now.