Pickup Owners: Do you buckle up?

[GManBart]

I would just ask that if you don't buckle up, consider willing me your tractors....just in case

 

[Btown]

There is certainly a risk level that we are all willing to take. If the car is safer due to seat belts, airbags, crunch zones, etc. we may drive more dangerously to meet some of our other needs. The Hidden Danger of Seat Belts - TIME

That article has little to no statistics on death rates of people using seat belts. It just rambles on about who knows what, a teenager on a date. It basically says death rates didn't change in accidents. So if you have a car load of kids driving like young stupid kid and one is wearing a seat belt, the other 5 are not. It crashes and 3 die that were not buckled. That article says basically hey the seat belt law is in effect but people are still getting killed. No kidding people who are not buckled. Here is an article with stats. Seat Belt Statistics This shows that people not wearing seat belts made up 21.3% in accidents but were 48.1% of the fatalities. That is 2.25 times more likely to die not using a seat belt or 225% more likely to die.

 

[Creamer]

I'll agree that the time article is not the best but the phenomena it describes is very real. We all have an acceptable level of risk that we will take for the various activities we do so if you lower risk in one area we will compensate in another.

 

[Buggs67]

I always buckle up in my truck or car.......just seems so much safer when I am texting and drinking a beer.:thumbsup:

You shouldn't drink and drive!! You might spill your drink ! 'specially a martini

 

[dragoneggs]

You shouldn't drink and drive!! You might spill your drink ! 'specially a martini

... and ruin your phone! And why do they use those easy to spill conical glassware on the finest of cocktails that your are sure to dribble.

 

[Copperhead]

None of this has swayed me one way or the other to buckle up or not. The gooberment can publish all the studies it wants, but these are the same folks with an agenda, and they use the same mindset methodology that air and water are worse than they were 50 years ago and something has to be done, when anyone who was in reality back then knows that air and water pollution today is hardly a blip on the radar compared to the 60's and 70's. Seat belts are indeed a good thing. But the gooberment agenda is not about safety for safety's sake, it is about revenue collection for not toeing the line of their agenda. If gooberment agenda was about safety, we would not see cigarettes for sale, we would see universal helmet laws, etc. This seatbelt issue is as all the others..... it is about control, money, or both. I will buckle up when appropriate, I will let the belt hang by the door when I am driving my pickup when it is not. I am not going to fasten and unfasten a seat belt a hundred times to check a fence line or crop land. I am not going to use the seatbelt when I operate my UTV, primarily because I don't use it as a play toy to crawl trails and hillsides. There wasn't even a seat belt in the M151A2 MUTT I used in the Army and it was nothing more than a large UTV by todays standards.

 

[Btown]

Watch this.

NO SEAT BELT CAR CRASH COMPILATION - YouTube

 

[oldpilgrim]

This seatbelt issue is as all the others..... it is about control, money, or both.

this, particularly revenue for tickets and insurance add on fees.

 

[Soundguy]

Revenue enforcement is nothing new. FDOT practices it regularly. Seems safety is a welcome byproduct, but definately not the primary goal.

 

[GManBart]

Natural selection never rests...