To want to get out of the car and bang all the people who dont wear seat belts up against their window screen to show them what it would be like to crash ?

Last month I had a bunch of teens in the studio (I run a recording studio). They were going out to lunch and all packed into one car and I gave them a very long lecture about putting their seatbelts on and said it they didn't belt up I'd call the police (I felt like such a mum). Anyway, they drove off, round the country lanes at 80 and rolled the car. The police who came round later confirmed that if they hadn't been strapped in, they would have had a lot more than a few broken bones.

Oh and it's worse to be the person strapped in when others aren't. A loose person in a car becomes the weight on an elephant hitting you if you crash.

my old neighbour NEVER straps her kids in, ever!!! Drove me mad to see her getting them in car, and driving off while I was still strapping my 3 in. She actually asked me why I still used carseats!!

I saw a little girl, standing on the front passenger seat, ov. without a belt on, I was behind her for ages. I was ranting and raving at DH about how if the woman had an accident her daughter would fly through the windscreen

This really makes me grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Story in our local paper last week about a mum who died in a head on collision - coroner states her not wearing a seatbelt was responsible for fatal injuries. Her family say she wouldn't wear a belt after her brother received injuries in a separate accident caused by the seat belt.

Her dd (19 mo) and partner survived the crash - they had belts on.

so .

Completely agree gingeme - also those who don't strap the kids in either. I have nearly got out and told some people whilst parked at lights etc but DH always says no they could hit you etc. Plus he said they might even go faster to prove a point then crash with the kids not wearing belts. It makes me mad. And those parents who think it's fine to loosely do up the straps of child restraints. I've seen loads of friends babies sitting with the straps hanging off their shoulders. My dad is a paramedic and he's seen many RTAs where the baby/child has shot out of the car seat as the straps have come off thbeir shoulders due to not being tight enough. Even my DH only checks across the chest part of the straps rather than under the strap on the shoulder. I get out and redo it! God - I sound like freaky paranoid woman don't I?!

And DP is almost fanatical about making sure the boys are strapped in, that the belts are not twisted, tight enough etc.

If I'm driving and DP is in the passenger seat will not put his seatbelt on. I just sit there at the wheel refusing to pull away until he's put it on. He's worse than a kid.
And I regularly see cars with several children bouncing about freely (clearly not strapped in) in the back.

Please can you do all the people who also think it is acceptable to talk on a mobile phone as well