A person who is not wearing a seatbelt becomes a projectile that can wound other people.
Seatbelt laws are good.
Seatbelt laws are good.
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I thought that’s what airbags were for?
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Airbags just help keep the steering wheel from going through your chest and reduce injuries. And obviously not all cars have them.
Airbags don’t keep you from bouncing around the inside of your car. Nor do they keep you from being ejected out of a window or an open door.
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Speaking of traffic issues...
Dear cyclists who ride in traffic: I hate you, and I don't care if you get run over. It's Darwinian.
Thought experiment: Why can't cyclists ride their bikes on the sidewalk? Why is it illegal for cyclists to ride on the sidewalk, but not illegal for them to ride in traffic? Any answer you come up with will be absurd.
Dear cyclists who ride in traffic: I hate you, and I don't care if you get run over. It's Darwinian.
Thought experiment: Why can't cyclists ride their bikes on the sidewalk? Why is it illegal for cyclists to ride on the sidewalk, but not illegal for them to ride in traffic? Any answer you come up with will be absurd.
Not really.
No, he did. You asserted that seatbelts have been known to cause deaths and he rebutted with its user error of seatbelts which have been known to cause deaths.
Though I'm not against them, they can be dangerous at times for short people and children.
Hey winnie poo, how come i havent seen u in the freaktacular thread hon?
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There's a thing in vehicle accident reconstruction called trip speed- it's where the car's forward momentum is so great that when the wheels get turned sideways (instead of straight ahead) the car will flip, usually more than once.
When the car is flipping the centrifugal force will pull you toward the outside of the circle of motion, like clothes on a spin cycle. If you're not secure inside the vehicle, the spinning force (that's pulling you outside) will throw you out of a window. Sometimes the window doesn't have to be open. You are then considered "ejected" from the vehicle.
It happens all the time. I've had some experience dealing with this kind of stuff. Lots of seminars.
When the car is flipping the centrifugal force will pull you toward the outside of the circle of motion, like clothes on a spin cycle. If you're not secure inside the vehicle, the spinning force (that's pulling you outside) will throw you out of a window. Sometimes the window doesn't have to be open. You are then considered "ejected" from the vehicle.
It happens all the time. I've had some experience dealing with this kind of stuff. Lots of seminars.
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Only if they're not properly fitted though. Shorter adults (below 150cm) should consider a booster seat if the car seat cannot be adequately adjusted to the seatbelt. Not sure about the US but in Oz kids have to ride in a harnessed booster suit 'til they're tall/heavy enough to sit in a regular seat.
Really?
One of my friends older brothers was driving home from his mothers house with his family. He wasn’t belted in and his daughter and everyone else was. He nodded off and rolled their car. He broke his sons jaw and hit his daughter on his way out the rear window, killing her.
If you have to see it before you believe it, you might just be an *****.
(Not saying you are, but well....)
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That right there is the reason I don’t even put the key in the ignition unless everyone has their seatbelt on.
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Only if they're not properly fitted though. Shorter adults (below 150cm) should consider a booster seat if the car seat cannot be adequately adjusted to the seatbelt. Not sure about the US but in Oz kids have to ride in a harnessed booster suit 'til they're tall/heavy enough to sit in a regular seat.
(As long as we're keeping it going...)
The issue of children and vehicle restraint is it's own cottage industry. There's something called the "led box defense". Often you see injury to a child in a car seat in an accident. The claim is that the car seat is defective- had the seat worked as intended, the child would not be injured.
The counter argument is that the force of the accident was so great that nothing would have prevented injury short of placing the child in "led box"- the car seat is not intended and was not designed to protect the child in all circumstances of impact. What if the car was struck by a tank- should the car seat protect against that? How about an 18 wheeler at 80 mph. At some point there is nothing that can protect the vehicle occupants.
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Yeah, it's pretty clear-cut. We are weak little things in the face of natural forces. Don't get Natured.
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I meant someone flying out and hitting someone on the sidewalk, and was making a joke. I understand what a seatbelt does
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