How often do you wear a seat belt?

[fdcg27]

It's all about risk management.
You can greatly reduce your chances of serious or fatal injury in that accident that wasn't on your Outlook calendar or you can accept the marginal risk with no payback that I can see.
Riding a street bike is dangerous as compared to driving a car, but you at least get to enjoy riding a bike, so for many the marginal risk is worth it.
What joy is there in driving a four wheeler on the road unrestrained?

 

[Garak]

Always, without exception. I'd even do it on the farm when it wasn't "necessary" or fumble around on vehicles that weren't equipped with them in the first place.

 

[Jim K]

100 percent. That`s the law here.

 

[tbm3fan]

100% since driver's training in 1969.

 

[OilFilters]

To me it's just what you do while the vehicle is warming up...put on your belt. It's saved me more than once. Never really seen a vehicle where it was so uncomfortable I couldn't wear it.

 

[andyd]

I use them enough so that I feel funny when I don't. Most auto fatalities are the result of ejection. It is that simple.

 

[Voleak]

100% of the time. I even keep it on when I am sitting in my parked car waiting for someone. You never know when a intoxicated driver or distracted driver will plow into a parked car.

 

[Yah-Tah-Hey]

Always, since they first came out. One of the best safety features ever incorporated in an automobile.

 

[ZZman]

My favorite line when I pulled soneone over and noticed they weren't wearing a seatbelt was:
If you have to die make it from old age, not in a car accident.

 

[MCompact]

100% of the time.

 

[addyguy]

Occasionally if I am just pulling the car around the corner from the front of my house to the parking lot I leave it off.

But I have to be honest, I feel weird without it on, so more often than not it goes on.

When driving it is on 100% for sure.

 

[cb450sc]

Always

 

[Wylie6G72]

It amazes me to think back to my childhood when we all rode around with the seat belts laying there, un-used. My mom's '72 Monte Carlo would buzz endlessly until you pulled the driver's lap belt out a certain distance, (this was before they used sensors in the buckles) so my dad pulled it out, rolled it up and crammed it down into the cushion. My dad's '78 Blazer had shoulder belts, and they just dangled there while we rode. Same with my sister's '79 Mustang and my '78 Monza.

I don't know what prompted us to start wearing them in the next generations of cars we owned. Maybe it was the incessant beeping. My mom's '85 Accord would chime endlessly until you buckled up.

I don't leave the driveway without it buckled now.

 

[DGXR]

100%. IMO there is no excuse for a full-sized person to not wear a seat belt. Everywhere I look nowadays I see people too busy in their lives to bother with safety, but somehow that LOL text to their buddy sure matters a lot
SMH

 

[MaximaGuy]

Belt up, yell at the kids if they haven't, check if the stupiddd kids are buckled up, then start the dammn car.
I have never ever driver without the seat belt. Never ever.

 

[pandus13]

I know of one case in the family where he is alive because he didn't have the belt (possible decapitation).
Still, he had 2 years of painful broken back AP.

SIL also had somebody watching her upstairs: she was moving FL to CT and was too hot after driving for 5-6 hours so she unbelted to do (i have no idea what): well you go where you look: she bounced from a semi across 3 lanes into the shoulder barrier; not a scratch but car (mint non-rust Pontiac Sunfire) totaled

Me, belt not done = car not moving.

 

[HemiHawk]

I just don't feel right with it off. I'm sure there are rare cases where the belt may make things worse but... I'll play the odds that say the belt helps more often.

 

[Delta]

Always wear the seat belt. The GTI will scream at you if you don't have it on anyways.

I was involved in a rollover a year ago on the Turnpike and the seatbelt is the only thing that kept me in there. Many years ago we were in a bad wreak and the seatbelt prevented me from flying out the windshield.

 

[NYEngineer]

I always wear one. My family also.

The other day I was helping a friend tune a carb'd hot rod and after we got it running, he wanted to take me for a ride in it. I get in this thing, a 1969 F body convertible and all it has is a lap belt. I put it on. We're toolin' along and he starts gettin' into it and now hitting 85 or so when I realize just how small and flimsy this car is. I told him to knock it off. I'm 6'5" so I didn't fit real well in the car either.

 

[zzyzzx]

100%, and I love the automatic seat belts in my 1995 Escort.