Guest LB Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 A stark new road safety campaign is highlighting the risks people take when they don't wear a seatbelt. The law requires people to wear a seatbelt if one is fitted, but figures show that nearly one in ten drivers and front seat passengers don't belt up. More people are wearing seatbelts in the back of cars, but around four in ten adults still don't. The Department for Transport estimates that around ten people travelling in front seats are killed every year by unbelted rear seat passengers hitting them in a crash.The new campaign includes an advert graphically depicting a road accident and an online crash simulator that demonstrates the effects of crashing with and without a seatbelt.Transport Minister Tony McNulty said:"Too many drivers and passengers still fail to wear a seatbelt. This campaign continues our thought-provoking publicity to try and convince them of the need to belt up - even on short trips."Wearing a seatbelt can save your life - I hope our new campaign will be a powerful reminder to those who seem to forget."The new advert is the latest in the Government's £14m Think road safety campaign. The total number of road deaths in 2002 was 3,341 - down three per cent from 2001. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 Worn my seat belt for so many years now it's force of habit to click it on. I also upset people I give lifts to by refusing to move off until they have also clicked on. Don't feel at all nerdish or embarrassed about it. :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LB Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 i don't drive but i do get quite a few taxis.I think it should be mandatory for taxi drivers to refuse to carry passengers unless they belt up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spikeychris Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 Hate to admit it but I'm one of them morons you see on the road who doesn't wear a seat belt. Why, well I just hate them I like to move freely in my car. I force my kids to wear theirs, even in the back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvw Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 Yes, always belt up these days, 2nd nature now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhat Posted September 8, 2003 Report Share Posted September 8, 2003 I alllllways use seatbelt, apart from in taxis for some reason :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluecow Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 I just passed my test when the law changed and you were forced to, makes sense really.If you want yourself and your family to live wear it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 I feel very unsafe if I don't! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nellie2 Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 Hate to admit it but I'm one of them morons you see on the road who doesn't wear a seat belt. Why, well I just hate them I like to move freely in my car. I force my kids to wear theirs, even in the back.No lectures here.......... but what are your kids going to do for a dad when the other moron rams into your car even though you were driving very safely. What are they going to do when your skull is smashed in against the windshield.I always wear mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest moon Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 Me too, even when I just sit in the car for a midnight smoke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndySD Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 Always and like doug I wont budge untill all else do too.But then just after I passed my test my friend and I used to take turns driving to collage. On one Wednesday I decided to throw a sickie.... and Fred drove in by himself no seatbelt.... or almost drove there. He swerved to miss a deer and het an oak tree. Threr were no major injuries just 2 years of plastic surgery to rectify the scaring on his face.Scared the hell out of me....still does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damo Posted September 9, 2003 Report Share Posted September 9, 2003 Always wear mine.....it's not my driving I think is unsafe but the other morons on the road that I don't trust! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhat Posted September 10, 2003 Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 Always wear mine.....it's not my driving I think is unsafe but the other morons on the road that I don't trust!AKA the fairer sex? smiley4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted September 10, 2003 Report Share Posted September 10, 2003 RedhatBrunettes are OK then ?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted September 12, 2003 Report Share Posted September 12, 2003 Worn my seat belt for so many years now it's force of habit to click it on. I also upset people I give lifts to by refusing to move off until they have also clicked on. Don't feel at all nerdish or embarrassed about it. :rolleyes:With you 100% there Doug. Last winter I was giving several people a lift to an away bowls match. One clever d*** said he never wears a seat belt, after several minutes during which I refused to drive, he relented when one of the other passengers suggested that he left my car and forgot about the match. Afterwards, the other passengers congratulated me on standing my ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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