Amazing seatbelt commercial

**safn1949** · February 26th, 2010, 12:16

I just saw this and no matter your opinion on seat belts lets see you not choke up watching this.

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**Dain Arns** · February 26th, 2010, 12:39

Beautiful.

I was thinking of posting another one I used to use in safety demos, but no point after seeing that one.
Sez it all.

**Matt Wynn** · February 26th, 2010, 13:06

I didn't choke up... should i be worried?

**Tako_Kichi** · February 26th, 2010, 13:19

Originally Posted by Smoothie

I didn't choke up... should i be worried?

Only if you don't belt up!

***OBIO*** · February 26th, 2010, 13:22

That was good...but I like the original version (which was not released to the public) better. In that one, the guy's mother-in-law lives with them, and her huge lumpy butt is the air bag.

OBIO

**cheezyflier** · February 26th, 2010, 13:25

Originally Posted by OBIO

That was good...but I like the original version (which was not released to the public) better. In that one, the guy's mother-in-law lives with them, and her huge lumpy butt is the air bag.

OBIO

man, i'm glad i wasn't eating or drinking when i read that.

**safn1949** · February 26th, 2010, 13:29

Originally Posted by OBIO

That was good...but I like the original version (which was not released to the public) better. In that one, the guy's mother-in-law lives with them, and her huge lumpy butt is the air bag.

OBIO

Dude,that's many levels of wrong.:d

**stiz** · February 26th, 2010, 14:09

these where ours for years

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not for seatbelts but this one gives me chills

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**Matt Wynn** · February 26th, 2010, 15:05

Originally Posted by Tako_Kichi

Only if you don't belt up!

i ride a Bike, does that count as a good excuse/reason for not belting up?

in the MX-5 i fitted a 4 point harness

honestly i never do more than 70mph

***Willy*** · February 26th, 2010, 16:25

My wife's 18 year old cousin died last Thanksgiving when he dodged a deer in his truck and rolled it. He wasn't wearing a seatbelt.

**aeromed202** · February 26th, 2010, 17:41

Seat belts do work. Use them. Thanks for these new (to me) ads. I'll add them to the ones I show in the EMT classes I teach.

I'll just add this one too.

http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/...=0001824647758

BTW, how does one put video on these posts?

**Piglet** · February 26th, 2010, 19:08

Well trained family members. Good teamwork. But no choking from me, still was a typical PSA.

tigisfat · February 26th, 2010, 20:28

No choking here either, that was kinda dumb actually. The british ones are no joke though. They really make a point.

I've had two car wrecks where I was able to get out and walk around after because I was wearing a seatbelt. Let me say this: if you're in a truck that hits a bomb and gets flown through the air, you may be the only person alive after if you were the only one with a belt on.

**n4gix** · February 27th, 2010, 07:38

Originally Posted by tigisfat

No choking here either, that was kinda dumb actually. The british ones are no joke though. They really make a point.

The last time I looked, Suffolk is still in the UK, so that makes this a "british one" also...

**stansdds** · February 27th, 2010, 10:04

Originally Posted by OBIO

That was good...but I like the original version (which was not released to the public) better. In that one, the guy's mother-in-law lives with them, and her huge lumpy butt is the air bag.

OBIO

I think that would more of a reason to unplug the wiring harness going to the airbag. :isadizzy:

**Bjoern** · February 27th, 2010, 18:35

Wearing a seatbelt is fortunately mandatory here.

If you refuse to wear one, expect no sympathy from anyone.

**Piglet** · February 27th, 2010, 19:18

I don't need gov't PSA's to tell me to wear seatbelts. Always wore them on my own. Did ride a motorbike for a week with out a helmet(before helmets were mandatory). Then thought "what the hell was I thinkin?!? Just my luck some illegal alien would centerpunch me!
I'm already weird enough without any head injuries...

**stansdds** · February 28th, 2010, 03:41

I started wearing seat belts when I went through the driver's education course. Seeing the movies (the old reel to reel projector with jittery sound) of crashes was enough to convince me.

***jmig*** · February 28th, 2010, 03:44

Yeah, I am with Tim. When I was 15 a woman turned left in front of my dad. He was in a VW Bug. However, thanks to a seat belt he walked away. I have worn them ever since. I feel uncomfortable if I don't put it on, even to go a couple blocks in the neighborhood or across a parking lot.

**safn1949** · February 28th, 2010, 04:07

I hit a one ton Dodge diesel pickup almost head on in a big truck at about 55mph.I didn't have a seatbelt on,I never realized I knew how to fly.Fortunately I stopped at the windshield after flying all the way across the truck and wiping out all of the dashboard knobs,bending the gearshift and punching the windshield with my head.

Pickup driver....no seatbelt but saved by the airbag,not a scratch.

Passenger.....no seatbelt and when I got to him I thought he was dead,but he came back.

It was a bad deal and after that I slowed down and wore the belt most of the time until I was in a quarry and slid into a ditch on a muddy road at about 20mph.Damned if I didn't try that flying thing again.

Never again.:d

**Odie** · February 28th, 2010, 05:48

Seatbelts? I wear them all the time.

Remember when we were kids in the 50s and all that was between you and a solid steel, unpadded dashboard and thick glass windshield was Mom's outstretched arm?

I think the first car that we had that had seatbelts was a 1965 Olds 88, and it was strictly lap-belts and only the front seat.

**Piglet** · February 28th, 2010, 16:41

Our family car when I was small was a VW bus. I used to sit on the stool between the two front seats. No belts, even the stool itself was not fastened down. Talk about luck....

**Prowler1111** · February 28th, 2010, 17:07

After surviving with minor injuries being t-boned, i would like to say that seat belts should be mandatory all over the world as well as airbags..

Prowler

**Toastmaker** · March 1st, 2010, 05:31

I had the same experience as Prowler about six years ago - T-boned by a taxi at about 35mph (luckilly in the right side).

The belts and airbages prevented me from becomming a projectile within the car - and here I am to honk about it today !! I support mandatory belts and bags, everywhere.

**cheezyflier** · March 1st, 2010, 06:24

i was once run off the road by a woman applying make-up on a back country road. i spun out and hit a tree.
i flew out of my seat, and knocked the door off of the car with my face and my shoulder, as well as flatening the shifter. the car was bent like a smile. beleive me or don't, but i recieved no more than whole lot of bruising. (all on the opposite sides of impact)

i crawled out, and noticed the car was still running. i put the door into the back seat, and drove the car home, screaming, smoking, bucking, no windshield, no insurance. i was scared to death i was going to get caught. i drove all the way home, right past the police station, and somehow never saw a single cop. the car was an isuzu I-mark that someone gave to me for free.