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 ?

[gingeme]

I went out with my dh today in our car and within 20 minutes I counted 23 people in various modes of transport without belts on. Especially those with kids in the car

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

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.

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

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?!

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 .

Oh dont get me started noodle. iM GLAD i DONT DRIVE OR i WOULD BE DONE FOR ROAD RAGE [ANGRY]

At one point we were driving behind a car with a child in the front seat and back seat with no belts on but the Mum who was driving had a belt on. Wont she feel wonderful when she crashes and watches her kids flying through the window screen. Makes me so pigging cross

Not at all Lucie my dh always checks after I put my dc's in their seats. At first I was like 'I can do it you know!@ until he pointed out they werent tight enough. I dont say anything now.

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

These people are stupid.My neighbour put her lo in the back seat with no belt on. I told her off and she said @ but Im a safe driver. Yes but is the person who crashes into you a safe driver? Grrrr.....

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!!

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.

Oh thats disgusting.

Yeah my dh got a public information leaflet from my hv clinic last week and I was reading up on it. Wish I had one for all these idiots I see on the road.

Well done whomoved

As for mobiles. I saw two blokes in a van both on their phones while the van was moving.

Gingeme, I'm always tempted to hit people who are on the phone and then get the police to pull their phone records so I can prove it was their fault for driving while on the phone.

think we should show them the clip that was on "wildest police videos" (or something with a similar name) last night - clearly showed a cab driver (in the US) driving without a seatbelt on (the owner oft he firm had fitted incar CCTV to make sure his drivers were doing their jobs properly) - he fell asleep at the wheel....woke up with a jolt, the car swerved and he was thrown from the front left hand side of the car to the back seat on the right hand side - pretty horrific to watch but certainly showed what can happen (he was lucky and survived with only cuts and bruises).

Now this is what gets me. They put fines on this sort of thing but where are the police to enforce the fines?? Too late when theres a bloody crash

I think schools should get more involved in explaining to the children about seatbelt safety - perhaps if more of those parents heard it from their own kids "mummy, please strap me in - I don't want to go through the windscreen", they might listen!

Only problem with that Luci is that does not cover the 0-5 yrs age group...

Yeah and hospitals wont let you bring a baby home unless its in a car seat. So what these people just chuck them away when they get home?

Yes- but HV's at mother and baby clinics could do more proactive demonstrations etc. I know there's only so much you can do - more tv adverts showing 'pretend' babies being thrown from car seats without properly fitted straps etc. The drinking and driving adverts with the shock tactics certainly made some people sit up and listen.

Thats true. Or that horrid one with the dead little girl whos been hit by a car traveling at 50mph. Amazing how real they could make the baby look.

Gingeme - actually they can't force you to have one. But you cannot carry a baby out without one without signing a disclaimer, in case you drop the baby. It's go bugger all to do with car safety!

Some people go home from hospital on the bus, in a taxi or walk and in all those scenarios it's not illegal to carry a baby without a carseat (unless the law has changed very recently).