I have no driving-license or car, that鈥檚 why I鈥檓 kinda confused here鈥?is it lethal to drive like that? How about riding a motorcycle without helmet to wear?
Why should I do that?
PS: Please don鈥檛 make joke of my questions鈥? I鈥檓 deathly serious and it鈥檚 matter of life or death here!!!|||Seat belts save lives, and motorcycles are unsafe at any speed. In the ER we call motorcycle drivers "organ donors."|||Its definitely much more likely! So why chance it?|||It's either you die or be fatally injured (and usually end up in comatose). I think that 20 km/h (don't know how much would that be on mph) is enough to knock an average weight person against the winshield (if sitting in front) or windows, and maybe rarely break the glass. Now DO NOT try going for 100 km/h or over WITHOUT PUTTING ON SEAT BELTS because you are going to fly right through the windshield. Also, when this happens, you risk being run over by the traffic on the road. Furthermore the car can also turn over on its roof.
As for motorcycles, they often slide to one side when the driver loses control and you run the risk of banging your head and crushing one or both your legs.
MORAL: ALWAYS WEAR SAFETY BELTS AND HELMETS (MOTORCYCLES ONLY) AND DO NOT DRIVE W/O LICENSE.|||You can die in crashes at speeds as low as 15 or 20 mph or survive one at speeds of 120 mph. You'll never know until you have it. Same for motorcycles without helmets. Neither one is very intelligent IMHO|||The reason that they put safety devices in place is that sometime in the past people have been seriously injured or killed. Why would you consider not using them?
There are a number of factors involved in this question that go beyond a simple 'fatal' speed. If you are colliding with another vehicle it is the total of both of your speeds; if your doing 30 and the other vehicle is doing 30 that's like hitting a stationary object doing 60!
If you are in a collision that is serious enough to knock your hands away from the wheel you lose care and control of your vehicle and are a hazard to yourself and others; you could end up in oncoming traffic, going off the road into a river/pole/building, hitting a pedestrian etc.
Unless you have a medical reason for not buckling up and have a Dr.s letter to prove it you can be charged where I live.
As for not wearing a helmet on a motorcyle (also against the law here) you end up being a projectile....you can live with a crushed arm or leg, but a crushed melon......|||Well is it you want or have a dealth wish. Yes you can die without using seatbelts most of the time they save lives. I have had a cousin who was lost because of no seatbelts. Without helmet well if you bump your head what is left? yep you should knw this without asking nope i am not kidding so many have died because of that alone. All in all i fyou areyoung well you will learn that its horribel to die in car accident let alone a car and the fact that all whom will miss you when you are gone its horrible to be in a place like that so think very carefully when you do drive.|||I crashed my truck going 80 mph on the intersate on the Fourth of July weekend (not drunk). The trooper told me that had seven accidents that weekend and four deaths. All the people that died, you guessed it weren't wearing seat belts.
I know its not uncommon for people to get ejected from cars and then ran over by other cars or even their own. Some people know better. But when the time comes its too late to strap your self in.
Most insurance companies will deny payments if they can prove that seat belts weren't used. Might as well not get insurance if you not going to buckle in.|||death can occur at high speed at low speeds with or without a seat belt it can even occur as a cause of the seatbelt however youre safer with it on
a seatbelt will keep you inside the car if the accident is major if youre still in youre seat during the accident your percentage for survival is around 80-90% if you are jettisioned from the vehicle its less than 10%|||i did not wear a seat belt until my children were born. i wanted to set a good example. it's habit now, and for 20 yrs I've been hearing about accident reports that if people had been wearing seat belts they would have survived. i was in a single car accident(wearing my seat belt) and would have been thrown through the windshield. as far as helmets, i believe the same. the extra weight on your head does not out way the consequences.|||Injuries can be sever in a car accident going only 10MPH. So buckle up! And riding a motorcycle without a helmet is,... well just stupid.|||Besides taking a chance of getting killed without wearing your seat belt you can get a ticket.Its against the law.Its also best to wear a helmet when on a motorcycle.|||The problem is that you may NOT die but end up with a severe brain injury, which is WAY worse than death!|||Whether you die or not depends on whether your vehicle makes impact with another object. If your vehicle does not make any impact, then you will be fine. If your vehicle does make impact with another, depending on the speed of your vehicle, and possible the speed of the other vehicle it may be fatal. I have seen fatalities in accidents where neither car was exceeding 35-40 miles per hour, but the circumstances of the head on collision, and the way the autos collided caused the death of a passenger.
Think of it this way. Your car can be completely stationary, however, if you are hit be a tractor-trailer driving at 50 MPH, there is a great chance that you will not survive.|||really if you cant figure it out with deductive reasoning jsut tont wear any protection. your DNA will probably be prevented from poluting the geene pool one way or another, and thus lowering the likelyhood of you producing someone of equal or less reasoning capability.|||I didn't have my seat belt totally fastened About 5 years ago. As a result I spent 4 days in the hospital with a broken vertebrae and a sore bottom that was painful when still sitting on three pillows. I didn,t plan to have an accident but they happen thru no fault of your own. We had a girl At our church hurt in a motorcycle accident and spent 4 months in the hospital due to no helmet. The choice is yours but can be painful if precautions are not taken.|||seat belts do save lives ive always worn mine and ive gotten hit from behind and althogh you may be sore where the belt was its better than the coroner trying to id your 100 foot blood and body part trail to you|||I guess it would depend on the skill of the driver
and how many grandmas are on the road|||it's a posibiltitie...nvr no wut el happen in the future|||see: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hba鈥?/a>
"My friend Eddie's Uncle Joe heard about this truck driver who narrowly avoided a fiery wreck by plunging his truck through the gaurdrail and down a 100 meter cliff. If he had had his seatbelt on, he would never have been able to jump out at the last second and hang on to the gaurdrail.
Maybe so.
But the work-energy principle must be satisfied in every collision, and it dictates that the work done in stopping the driver must be equal to the driver's kinetic energy. The shorter the stopping distance, the greater the impact force. And cases where the seatbelt would not lengthen your stopping distance and decrease your impact force are about as rare as this kind of accident.
Rather than making judgements about safety from anecdotes like the one above, it is wise to consider the evidence from the large database on traffic fatalities."
"The task of the seatbelt is to stop you with the car so that your stopping distance is probably 4 or 5 times greater than if you had no seatbelt. A crash which stops the car and driver must take away all its kinetic energy, and the work-energy principle then dictates that a longer stopping distance decreases the impact force. For the example car crash scenario the stopping distance is one foot, the force on a 160 lb driver is about 4800 lb or 2.4 tons, and the deceleration about 30 g's. A moderate amount of stretch in the seatbelts will reduce the average impact force. "|||Well, it's not that you are assured of death by driving without wearing your seat belt, but your "probability" of death increases without wearing a seat belt. Some factoids I pulled off the 'Net:
禄 Seat belts are the most effective safety devices in vehicles. In potentially fatal frontal crashes, they increase your chance of survival by 45% in a car and 60% in a light truck.
禄 Without wearing a seat belt, a 35 m.p.h. crash is the equivalent of falling from a third-story window.
禄 Safety belts saved more than 12,000 American lives in 2001. Yet, during that same year, nearly two-thirds (60 percent) of passenger vehicle occupants killed in traffic crashes were unrestrained.
禄 Safety belts should always be worn, even when riding in vehicles equipped with air bags. Air bags are designed to work with safety belts, not alone. Air bags, when not used with safety belts, have a fatality-reducing effectiveness rate of only 12 percent.
禄 Safety belt usage saves society an estimated $50 billion annually in medical care, lost productivity, and other injury-related costs.|||Statistically, you are more likely to get injured in an accident if you don't wear a belt but in SOME cases, the belt may cause injury or death. We just live in a statistical world, and the rest is up to Fate, Karma, God, or whatever gets you going.|||why would you consider NOT using your seat belt. it is safer and it is proven so why not just wear it. its not like you look stupid.|||It is possibly lethal to drive without a seatbelt a car doesnt need to be moving very quickly to eject the driver. If the car hits a stationary then the impact is doubled. If you hit something doing 60 its the equative to the force of being dropped from a 4 story building, so being thrown is not uncommon. A motorcycle is partically dangerous without a helmet if you fall there is nothing to protect that pretty face as it meets with asphalt.|||the seatbelt has been answered so ill go with the helmet, the helmet provides extra cover for your head because you are travelling on a motorbike if you come off at any speed and land on your head you risk braindamage even death (you do not have to knock your head very hard to kill yourself you just need to knock the right place) the helmet offers some protection against this, also its why most people wear leathers on a bike because if they came off the gravel rash they would suffer would be quite deep, layers and layers of skin would be stripped from your body, depending on the sped this can be down to the bone, also the leathers offer some protection from broken bones,
i really do not understand the reason for asking this q as it is publicised soooo often even my 8 yr old knows the answer anyway the seatbelt and the hemet have been legalised as protection, because studies show less fatalities with them in accidents than without, this does not mean however that if you do wear them you wont die, there is just less chance of doing so|||No, you may not necessarily die if you don't wear one. But look at the numbers. The speeds don't sound fast, but when you are being slammed against your dashboard, it'll feel different.
If you are going 10mph, it's like stepping off of a 3 foot platform.
If you are going 20mph, it's like stepping off of a 13 foot platform.
If you are going 30mph, it's like stepping off of a 30 foot platform.
Get the idea? It's gonna hurt.|||Death can occur at very low speed without a safety belt,,you never know|||Riding a motorcycle without a helmet is asking to get killed. As far as for seat belts it like doubles your chances to be unharmed in a car crash. SO they make these things for a reason ,for your safety use them|||it can be lethal to drive w/out it but it's also against the law. you don't need much speed to be killed in an accident but you heighten your chances w/out a seat belt on.
same thing can happen without your helmet on while riding a motorcycle.|||it depends upon the speed at which you travel.
if the speed is high and some accident takes place, safety belt definately helps.
car can kill the driver most probably if the car is not in control of the driver.|||All accidents are different, so it's impossible to say if a seatbelt will help in any given accident. HOWEVER... the rate of survival in an accident is greatly improved among those who were wearing a safety belt at the time. Just put it on, it's not difficult.
And not wearing a motorcycle helmet is just stupid. Motorcycle accidents are hundreds of times more lethal than car accidents, and helmets are proven to reduce head injuries. Once again, just wear it.|||Yes, your chance of dying is much much higher without a seat belt. I knew a child whose mom didn't think it was important to buckle up to go to a food market only 5 minutes away from home..
the mom died as a pickup slammed into them and the girl was left with severe brain damage.
Your brain takes the full impact without a helmet! Why take the chance with either of these important subjects...
it just makes common sense to take 2 seconds to buckle up yourself and those you love.....
Save yourself and others the pain of having you seriously hurt and or seriously hurting a passenger in your car, which is a passenger in your care....
Be Smart! God Bless and Protect you when you do learn to drive...
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