On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:16:09 -0000, Lewis wrote:

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Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:40:45 -0000, wrote:

On 2016-02-21 17:51:48 +0000, Ed Pawlowski said:

On 2/21/2016 12:14 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:08:46 -0000, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 1/24/2016 12:53 AM, nospam wrote:

the key is to *avoid* the collision in the first place.

Yes, but often when stopped there is no place to go. A few years ago an
entire family was killed at a toll booth. Last year two kids were
killed in the car stopped at a light.They were not belted in. May have
made a difference.

Are you a reporter? The media loves to take a few little uncommon
examples and make it sound as though it could happen to you. It most
likely won't.

I was broadsided by a big truck. Minor injury that could have been
worse had I not been belted. That was many years ago. Car was totaled,
I had a cut on my head. Yep, can happen.

Seatbelt + airbag saved me from serious injury here. I was left hanging
from the seatbelt in the upside-down car. When the airbags deployed, my
right hand was blown off the steering wheel up through the now
shattered moon-roof. That chewed my hand up quite a bit, but that was
not what I would term serious.
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...and it was my fault, I shouldn't have been driving after working two
20 hour days in a row, I fell asleep at the wheel. I replaced that Ford
Contour with a used Mercedes 560SEL.

Oh look, two examples of it happening. Now find out how many people
never even have a minor scrape in their cars.

Tens of thousands of people die in car crashes every year. *Millions* of
people are injured every year. And that's just in the US.

Mainly useless drivers. By all means wear your seatbelt just after you've passed your test.

I haven't built a nuclear fallout shelter either, and I reckon that
chances of needing one are similar to the chances of needing a
seatbelt.

So, you fail at doing the math.

In the UK we can do more than one math, we call it maths.

So, what "math" do you use to work ou the chances of a politician starting a nuclear war?

But.... a shelter just sits there out of the way until you need it. I
don't want the inconvenience of putting ****ing belt on all the time.

Ohnoes! It is so inconvenient!

It is if you get in and out of your car 100 times a day. It's also way more comfortable if you don't wear one, and much easier to lean forwards to get a better view at junctions.

But, frankly, I don't care if you wear a seatbelt

If only the law was as sensible as you.

as long as you make
sure you DIE in any accident and not be seriously injured and a drain on
society for your stupidity.

If you don't like free medicine for all, change that, not this.

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"A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit."
- Army preventative maintainance publication