When I worked on a massive hiring project, we were trying to learn about peoples’ thought processes for their personal safety, and we asked in the interview if they wore seat belts or not. Most people replied that they did, and stated the law required it, but many people still offered that they didn’t. They had a lot of interesting reasons why not.
- Seat belts wrinkle my clothes
- I don’t need to, I have airbags
- It’s uncomfortable
- I’ve heard of people trapped in a burning car who couldn’t unfasten their belt
- My parents never wore them
- There’s dust on them that gets on my clothes
- I don’t believe there should be a law requiring me to wear them
- I’m a good driver
Would we hire someone who said they didn’t wear them and offered these excuses? Maybe, if they showed some level of flexibility in other portions of the interview. But when you take a job in a factory with required protective equipment and specific procedures, there is little room for personal comfort or opinion.
Do you wear your seat belt? Have you convinced yourself it’s OK not to do so?
Let’s be careful out there.
Always. My mother was a safety nut, so we always wore seat belts and even had car seats back before they were required by law. It feels weird to sit in a car without a seatbelt!
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Reasons 4, 5, 7, and 8 = excuses purely intended to justify doing what you want to do anyway
Seatbelts are not inherently uncomfortable. What’s uncomfortable is what you’re not used to. Once I get used to wearing seatbelts, I no longer even noticed I was wearing one.
Airbags and seatbelts each protect you from different types of accidents. For certain accidents, they both protect you, but the 2 of them together protect you even more.
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Tim
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April 8th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Thanks for your views Mark. We can have action, or we can make excuses. Some people see excuses as a sort of reasoning, but it falls way short of a true “reason”.
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EVERYONE SHOULD WEAR SEAT BELT BECAUSE IT LEGAL
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You should wear your seatbelt but wearing it should be a choice and not forced apon adults!
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I honestly don’t get why people don’t wear seatbelts. I don’t even notice mine when I wear it, and it is literally the easiest thing you can do that will have the greatest impact on your survival chances.
I guess some people enjoy the thought of travelling face first through a glass windscreen and sliding on pavement. Wierdos
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[...] Notice what this top 8 list of reasons for not putting on a seatbelt: [...]
Great list of excuses
In the end if it is our car we can DEMAND that all passengers wear their seat belt.
We may not be popular but we will have a clean conscience.
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.Wear yo seat belt or die not puttning on yo seat belt is just like hitting death n da face # Be safe……
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Personally, I always wear a seat belt and won’t move my car without everyone also having theirs on. There is however a truth in seat belts not being entirely necessary. My sister was in a major car wreck (not an accident since it could have been prevented) 3 years back and would have actually died if she had had a seat belt on but instead she flew out the window and lived. The easiest way to go about the seat belt situation is to simply put on a seat belt but also keep a seat belt cutting knife in the car. I have a seat belt cutter as well as window cutter on mine and love it dearly. One more helpful piece of advice: drive safe and keep vigilant. Hope this helps everyone
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i guess some people like blood.lovley :{
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Personally I have been in two major accidwnts. In both I was wearing a seat belt. The first I was hit on the drivers side and broke the drivers side window with my head. The belt did no good. The second I rolled a truck with three other people in side. Those three all got ejected from the vehicle and the seatbelt held me in. The cab was crushed onto me and broke my coller bone, tore my rotator cuff , and broke one rib. The three ejected walked away. I would be more than happy to wear my belt if I could see one report that shows the number of people who were injured because of the seatbelt vs those who weren’t. The officer in both instances wrote on his report that the belt saved my life. How can they really say that perhaps I would have been ejected and walked away and it did nothing when hit from the side.
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Tim
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April 12th, 2013 at 8:27 am
Jeff-
I’m the first to admit that seat belts are not a solution to every impact. The major accident I had was a head-on collision when I lost control in a snow storm. I have no doubt that the bruises from the belt were far less severe than the outcome would have been otherwise.
I also agree that just because you were wearing your seat belt doesn’t mean that the belt saved you.
But given my understanding of physics, engineering, and safety, I still buckle up every time.
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