General Chat

Our car beeps at you if you don't put your seatbelt on within about 20 seconds of starting the engine. (Unless the car is in reverse, curiously.) So I always remember to do it because it makes me feel like the car is nagging me otherwise.

The only time I sometimes don't wear it is if I have to move the car in or out of the drive temporarily . . . but it still beeps at me! (So usually I do it for a quiet life.)

Always wear mine but o.h. used to be lazy about putting his on, and wouldn't do it till he had driven out of the culdesac or further, I refuse to drive off if he hasn't got his on now.

If you don't wear a belt and have an accident, your insurance claim if there is an accident will be affected, that's if you live, and you are also responsible for making sure your passengers are properly belted up, and you will be fined if they are not and you are caught driving with 'loose cannons' in the car.
I am surprised at you Stray, taking such a silly chance when it's so easy to put the belt on before starting the car, you aren't showing your son a good example and could leave him with a mum in a wheelchair or worse.
Please don't do that to him.

Lizx

legally you dont need a seat belt when parking( and I think that shunting comes under that,)....................but especially with automatics.............they seem to be most vulnerable!!
but if you are spotted you MAY be liable for a suspected moving traffic offence and are then liable to be breath tested.....so if you are at a party? and asked to move your car!! beware........!!!!

Bob

Always wear ours. Dont like the back seat ones as I find them difficult to do up, but I make the driver wait until I manage it. The gadgets sold for helping with seat belts that catch your neck are well worth buying. Dont understand why they are not added to cars. Seen too many bad results as said.

I always wear one. I put it on as soon as I'm in the car.
I've even been known to look for a seatbelt on a bus!

Nothing worse, as a pedestrian trying to cross the road, than to see a car 'jumping' or crawling towards the junction you want to cross because the driver is trying to put their seat belt on!
I don't give a stuff if the driver kills themself, but by their actions, they're putting others' lives at risk, and I have to stand there while the plank sorts themself out!!

I always try and avoid the seats at the front of the bus that have just a rail across, I feel very vulnerable without a belt. Wonder if our Stray had returned to this thread???

Yes. If it had not been for wearing the seat belt and the presence of the air bag, I feel certain I would have been killed in a head-on car crash.


Anyone remember Jimmy Saville saying clunk click every trip?

I bought a couple of padded thingies to put on the belts to save rubbing at the collarbone area, o.h. doesn't like them so turns the driver one round every time he uses the car then I have to turn it back when I drive, can't understand why he doesn't just slide it down to his middle or somewhere, silly idiot.

Kitty, I can understand how your granddaughter was the reason to go on, it must have been devastating for you to lose your loved ones and so hard for her not to have her family around her as she grew up but sounds as if you have done a good job helping her and hope she does well at uni.
Great that you have found someone to spend the rest of your life with, you obviously still had a lot to give and someone saw that - continued happiness to you.

Lizx

If l had'nt been wearing one and the air bags had'nt inflated when that deer hit us l would have been very badly injured or dead!!!

SO YES l always wear one, always have apart from some yrs ago on the coaches!!

jude x

Hand on heart...Yes I do...And anyone who doesn't....in my car....gets a nagging until they do.

Kitty, bless you . I am pleased you have found happiness again, and your granddaughter is doing well at uni.
I always wear a seat belt, feels strange to me if I dont put it on as soon as I get into the car. I have a friend who often goes in the back of our car and she hates the seat belt but I tell her she has to put it on. Dont want her taking us with her as she would do if we had accident .

Always wear my seat belt and if anyone os in my car so must they or thy have to get out and use their own transprt.
My grandchildren always wear their seat belts and I have heard one of them tell an adult to do the same!
Driving is a dangerousoccupation and we should do everything we can to protect ourselves.

Maybe those who do not wear the seat belt for one reason or another should spend a week or so in any A&E department and visit people who have survived after terrible car accidents,,,it could be a lesson well learnt(or go to a morque and see some of the less fortunate who did not survive. )

are the public allowed into a morgue?
(didnt think they would be, unless a relative)..
Bob

srry i dont look on genral often, but merlin just pmed me n told me off

well you asked us to be honest and i was, i always wear it when littleman is in the car, as i cant say to him wear his, if i havent got mine on,
i dont do it regular, but you asked if hand on heart we always wear them n i answered truthfully, on the odd occation i dont

altho you lot are scary so from now on even if we only going a short distance ill put it on :)
xxx

Thank you stray, that is what we want to hear. We only have your safety at heart. And thank you for being honest, you could easily have said you did always wear it. I appreciate that.

:) xxx

Thank you Stray. We will all be happy knowing you are being careful.

It was funny, I was thinking about this thread this afternoon when I delivered Mum-in-law's shopping. I had put a couple of quite heavy bags on the passenger seat and the car was furiously beeping telling me to put the seatbelt on! I had to put the shopping on the floor!!

Elisabeth xx

Lol Elisabeth, We often strap things in when we put them on the back seats so they don't become missiles but not done it with the front seat as I am usually on it!!!

All our family wear their seat belts without fail. Full Stop, Period or whatever you want to call it. No arguments.

We also advocate the "Rubber Stamp" policy, although some would go further and advocate it should be a permanent tattoo....!

Anyone caught being an idiot driver or passenger, gets their forehead stamped with the word "Idiot" We also have a lot of other terms which might be considered a bit rude on here, but I think you get the gist.....!

My car beeps if seatbelts aren't plugged in.My dog sits on the passenger seat in the front and it even beeps when he is sat on the seat and not belted lol
I have a friend who will often not put his on.If I am in his car and he pulls away without it I just give him a look (no words),and he does the right thing.
I have a furry cover to hold the belt off my neck when driving.It is bright pink and says Little Miss Naughty lol