Seat Belts and Driving Poll

[goofynina]

The only time i get in the back seat is when  ........oh, nevermind   

(whew that was close) 

[nextnoel]

I too think it should be a personal choice. Not saying it isn't a good idea, but I don't like decisions taken out of my hands and made by the government. If people want to use bad judgment, it just helps clean-up the gene pool.

In 1979, the 18-year-old son of a good friend of mine was driving when his car hit a patch of ice, and he wrecked.  Not wearing his seatbelt, he was thrown out of the car against a tree, and has been a quadraplegic since; the car had very little damage, and if he had remained inside it, he would have, too.  He's still alive (if you call that living), but he wishes he weren't.  He managed to go to Yale for 3 years, with much (very expensive) help, and then dropped out.  He hasn't done anything since, and he and his entire family have sufferred from his injuries every day.  If personal choices only affected the person making them, I might agree with you, but they don't - admit it or not, we really are all connected.

[George Jung]

- admit it or not, we really are all connected.

Kinda like Aspen Groves.

[Wattle]

- admit it or not, we really are all connected.

Kinda like Aspen Groves.

Whats Aspen Groves? 

[glitter]

An Aspen is a tree.  It grows in the western US (Colorado ), The roots of every single Aspen are connected making it the largest living organism on Earth. (If I remember correctly.) I have some beautiful jewelry made of Aspen leaves, they are very beautiful in the fall when they change colors.

[George Jung]

That is correct glitter.  I went horseback riding out there one time.  It was the best trail ride I have done.  Absolutely beautiful.  When nextnoel said how we are all connected weather we can see it or not (my interpertation of her words) it made me think of the Aspens and how they are all connected even though we can't see it on the surface.

[angela515]

i wear mine because colorado has a seat belt law. HOWEVER..i am alive because in 1971 i wasn't wearing a seat belt when the rear break malfunctioned on the car i was riding in, causing the car to roll at 65 mph, landing on top of me. i went out the passenger window. if i had been wearing my seat belt the metal frame around the windshield would have been driven into my heart.  i wear mine, but have mixed feelings about it and it was years before i could bring myself to wear one.

I'm with you. I'm alive and/or not severely injured from a car accident in 1997 where someone ran a stop sign and hit my car causing me to flip it 4 times before sliding into a stop sign stopping the car. The officer said not wearing the seatbelt saved my life, cause if I was wearing it, it would of severed my head. I also have mixed feelings about wearing them. I personally think seat belts save lives in some accidents and cannot in others.. so therefore it should be a personal decision if you want to wear one.

[mcjane]

I have mixed feelings too. I'm always afraid of fire. Sometimes the seatbelt jams & if the car is on fire & your trapped.............not a nice way to go.

Of course they do save lives, most of the time.