⚠️ A Reminder from Neil deGrasse Tyson ⚠️ #startalk

[bmitch]

Speed is also relative. If your car is going 5mph, but a very large truck going 45mph hits you head on, your body is about to experience a nearly 50mph crash.

[ams]

I'm an EMT. The one factor in common with every traffic fatality/serious injury I've ever had is not wearing a seatbelt. On the opposite end I've seen accidents where no person should have been able to walk away from them, and yet they did because they were all wearing their seatbelts.

I'll be brutally honest to anybody reading this, if you're not going to wear a seatbelt for your own sake, wear one for the sake of the person who will have to live with you in their mind after cleaning your brain matter from the side of the road

[Ondrix]

I always wear a seatbelt and drive defensively. Because no matter how well I can drive, that has no bearing on anyone else on the road.

[briansimon]

In the UK on 31 January 1983 the seatbelts wearing law came into force. Making them compulsory. Shortly after this, 90% of car drivers and front seat passengers were observed to be wearing seatbelts. Moreover, a 29% reduction in fatal injuries of front-seat passengers and a 30% drop in serious injuries were reported that year. There are hundreds of thousands of people alive today because their parents wore a seatbelt.👍🏻

[carolynraley]

I started wearing a seatbelt consistently when I saw a policeman doing a seatbelt commercial in the 1970's. While helping victims of car accidents, he said he never unbuckled a dead person. That convinced me -- buckle up EVERY time.

[LeftyPem]

Lost my dad to a single car accident where he wasn’t wearing his seatbelt. He almost never did, and I regularly made him put it on if I was ever driving. Thank you for sharing this, Dr NDT❤

[josepht]

As a paramedic I can confirm seat belts save lives. The problem is people think they are special and it could never happen to them, or they were in a situation before that they walked away from so every situation will end that way in their mind. But the reality is that’s not how it works. Everytime I heard the term “Unrestrained passenger” while responding to a call I’d immediately prepare myself for the worst situation imaginable because that’s usually what it was. Please buckle up.

[AppNasty]

i used to be someone who refused to put a seatbelt on....until the day i was in car as passenger with my mother driving only about 20mph across major highway and a company truck turns in front of us head on. I was 23....41 now and it changed my life forever. Messed my spine and neck up. I even forget i was married. Took painkillers for nearly 18 years and recently decided to stop taking them. It isn't a joke. I didn't have my belt on so when we hit, the air bag came out and my body fully hit it causing it to smack my head back hard and then the back of my head hit the seat which caused my low spine to get destroyed. 20mph.

[MonyTarch]

I cannot stress this enough. I was a non seatbelt wearer. That is until I had my head go through a windshield. We were going maybe 15 mph….. PUT IT ON. PLEASE! I’m very lucky to be able to make this post, I was in icu for 2 weeks

[brianheight]

I was in a car accident where I wasn't wearing a seatbelt on I95-N. The truck hit my door, I was thrown to the other side, and where I had been was crunched up. I was barely injured, but might not have made it had I been wearing it. Ever since, I am fanatical about having my seatbelt on. I used my Get Out of Jail card, and that scenario isn't likely to happen again.

[spidalack]

Only time it's acceptable to not wear your seat belt is if you're not in the car.

[lovemoresakala]

I am becoming more intelligent just listening to this man thank you

[GibsonsgOhyeah]

I've been in a lot of collisions while not being restrained. The first was a 65mph t-bone. I was in the right front seat, and head-butted the left rear quarter, and ended up in a heap in the back seat. I'm 59yrs old, and this happened when I was 14. I've been in pain my entire life. Buckle up!

[tofu_golem]

In high school drivers ed, they told us that crashing into something at 10 miles per hour is like dropping a car from a one-story building. For every 10 mph above that, add another story. So crashing into something at 30 mph would be like being in a car that drops off a 3-story building.

Most of us would not choose to jump off of a 3-story building.

[JPL]

I normally put the seat belt before turning on the car out of habbit, my brain normally works on auto pilot.

[allenwurl]

I had 25’ of chain between my F-250 and my Bronco “Which was sitting on its frame stuck in the mud” When I reach the end of that chain I hit the windshield. Ever since that day I have worn my Seat Belt👍 before the vehicle goes into gear, 100% without fail, every single time. Some of us need to hit the windshield once the rest are capable of learning from other’s mistakes… Ask yourself which one are you 👍

[C_In_Outlaw]

Usain Bolt: “instructions unclear, I ran into a brick wall with my seatbelt and still got hurt.” 😞

[Duraffinity]

⁠ People forget that an airbag alone isn’t enough. A seatbelt alone isn’t enough. Driving at or under the speed limit isn’t enough. All of these things (and more) work together to keep us as safe as possible as we try and control these big, heavy machines at unnatural speeds transporting ourselves and our families down roads with other barely controlled big heavy machines.

[plaenophotoz]

Same with motorcycles! But you don’t have the option to put the seatbelt on. That’s why I can’t believe people don’t wear helmets and leather at least!

[miket.]

Texas DPS once had a collision simulator at a car show. It was basically a car seat on a short roller coaster. It hit a bumper at the end at a whopping 7 mph. It was designed to let you know how hard you actually hit only going 7 mph.
The idea of course was to show that you don't have to be going very fast at all to get hurt without a seat belt.