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Question about seatbelts ... can they come disloged in an accident?
Posted on 1/31/15 at 11:48 am
Posted on 1/31/15 at 11:48 am
I've wondered this often ... but yesterday afternoon my mom's neighbor was in a fatal car crash and the reports are that she didn't have her seatbelt on. So the question in my mind arises again.
If you have a seatbelt on and you're in an accident is it possible that it would "unbuckle" from the force or anything? I guess I just can't imagine people still not wearing seatbelts.
Sadly, the gentleman who hit her was charged with his 2ND DWI within 24 hours ... he hit her just 6 hours after bonding out of jail. Something is wrong with this system. IDK what the answer is but it just sucks.
KATC report
If you have a seatbelt on and you're in an accident is it possible that it would "unbuckle" from the force or anything? I guess I just can't imagine people still not wearing seatbelts.
Sadly, the gentleman who hit her was charged with his 2ND DWI within 24 hours ... he hit her just 6 hours after bonding out of jail. Something is wrong with this system. IDK what the answer is but it just sucks.
KATC report
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Posted on 1/31/15 at 11:50 am to tiger91
Sounds highly unlikely but I suppose its possible
Posted on 1/31/15 at 11:52 am to tiger91
<---------- they can tear.
Posted on 1/31/15 at 11:52 am to tiger91
That's terrible. I feel for the lady's famil and friends.
Whatever this guy gets as far as punishment will not be enough.
Whatever this guy gets as far as punishment will not be enough.
Posted on 1/31/15 at 11:52 am to tiger91
I would think that the buckle itself is made to withstand the pressure behind the force of impact.
Posted on 1/31/15 at 11:54 am to CaptainsWafer
Wafer, her son and my youngest brother are good friends. My heart is broken for that family.
Posted on 1/31/15 at 12:00 pm to tiger91
They will not unbuckle.
In really extreme circumstances the buckles can break and if the belt is already damaged the belt can tear/break.
In really extreme circumstances the buckles can break and if the belt is already damaged the belt can tear/break.
Posted on 1/31/15 at 12:02 pm to tiger91
My company truck unbuckles when I lean forward sometimes but is because it's faulty.
Posted on 1/31/15 at 12:06 pm to cattus
I personally have never worked an extrication that the patient or victim's seatbelt was unbuckled. They have torn due the impact and even seen the tensioner ripped off the B post.
Posted on 1/31/15 at 12:13 pm to Flamefighter
I think I was trying to make myself feel a little better that at least she did what she could to "protect" herself. I guess if it had torn they wouldn't have said she was unrestrained.
Posted on 1/31/15 at 12:21 pm to Flamefighter
My dad was Mech Eng. Profossor for 45 years and a ME Consultant/Exp. Witness for about 30 of those years and still consults.
I used to help him test all kinds of stuff that had Mech failures for cases. I don't recall ever helping him with a seat belt failure. He wouldn't be hired if it was an obvious failure like a tear. Automotive it was mostly claims of failed air bag systems and brakes.
Most of his cases were 1000 Ways to Die kinda stuff. Lady cruising down I-55 and gets a bush hog blade to the head from guy cutting right of way. Log trucker stops along the highway to throw a cable over the logs and hits the high voltage power line.
I used to help him test all kinds of stuff that had Mech failures for cases. I don't recall ever helping him with a seat belt failure. He wouldn't be hired if it was an obvious failure like a tear. Automotive it was mostly claims of failed air bag systems and brakes.
Most of his cases were 1000 Ways to Die kinda stuff. Lady cruising down I-55 and gets a bush hog blade to the head from guy cutting right of way. Log trucker stops along the highway to throw a cable over the logs and hits the high voltage power line.
Posted on 1/31/15 at 1:37 pm to weadjust
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bush hog blade to the head
Sorry to hi-jack the thread but this sends chills up my spine because it almost happened to me.
Forunately I was in my truck - higher from the ground - on a narrow two-lane rural road in LA and came over a hill and met a flatbed truck hauling a bush hog = with the blade down - covered the whole lane, I immediately turned to the ditch and the tip of the blade hit my front left headlight and bent it upward enough that it didn't come thru the windshield. thank God the ditch was wide and shallow.
bush hog may not be the right name - it was one of those horizontal scissor blades like a hedge-trimmer.
This post was edited on 1/31/15 at 1:39 pm
Posted on 1/31/15 at 2:34 pm to tiger91
Its possible. Chances are slim.
Posted on 1/31/15 at 2:49 pm to tiger91
quote:
I guess I just can't imagine people still not wearing seatbelts.
I rarely wear mine if im in the car by myself.
Posted on 1/31/15 at 3:01 pm to tiger91
Extremely unlikely. Far more likely she just wasn't wearing it unfortunately. Seatbelts are made to protect you in wrecks, they are designed and tested specifically in those situations. Hence having crash tests with cars, Seatbelts are used in some of those tests
Posted on 1/31/15 at 3:35 pm to Breesus
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rarely wear mine if im in the car by myself
Really? I guess as a mom I'm big on buckling and even when the kids aren't with me it's just habit.
From speaking with someone who saw the car after the wreck, it sounded like it may not have even helped as the front of the car was pushed into the driver's seat. It seems that I've heard some stat about a super low percentage of drivers who were killed that had to be actually unbuckled to be removed from the wreckage.
Posted on 1/31/15 at 3:55 pm to tiger91
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Really? I guess as a mom I'm big on buckling and even when the kids aren't with me it's just habit.
I'm no parent, and I do some stupid shite for an adrenaline rush, but if I go more than a few hundred yards down a road without a belt on I get antsy. I don't understand anyone not wearing one.
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