Do you wear your seatbelt?

[Sapphire Faerie]

Just curious ;P
I tend to notice when people don't. I can remember being about four years old, and I didn't want to wear my seatbelt. My mother kept telling me to, and I kept taking it off. So she started putting me back into my carseat, even though I'd really outgrown it. Since then, I've always worn my seatbelt. If I don't have it on, I feel strange.
Though, if I'm going on a long car trip (like three hours or more) I'll usually end up taking it off at some point. Particularly if I'm in a crowded van with friends. If I'm just in the backseat of a car with my family, I'll be more likely to leave it on longer.

[Christopher]

Of course I always wear my seatbelt.

People that don't wear it get arrested or fly through the windscreen to become road pancake with glass sprinkles.

[sparkygoesforth]

Yes, in this country it is a legal obligation to wear seatbelts where they are fitted to your car (some really old cars/trucks don't have seatbelts fitted). To be honest it would feel totally unnatural to not wear a seatbelt while driving now.

[Shifty]

When i'm in a car yes.
Buses here ( public or private) don't have seatbelts.

[Igg]

Yes, in the car. No, on the bus.

I have been known not to fasten the seatbelt in the car when I'm just tagging a lift for a few hundred metres.

[jellyoflight]

Yup.

The only exception was on the trip to France when we were in that coach all day, and the stupid seatbelts were *so* tight. Then Adam came and sat on me, which made things worse, lol. But it was only off for a few minutes at a time, while I made it longer so that it didn't press into me as much, but would still protect me if the coach crashed.

But apart from that, I do wear my seatbelt ^_^

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[Alex]

Yes. It's illegal not to.

[WIS]

Always, my aunt makes fun of me when I wear my seatbelt in China though.

[Stijn]

Never.
We don't have seatbelts in our car.

If I'm in someone else's car I do wear them though.

[Bangel]

Always. I didn't until around 3rd grade or so, when my father decided to force us to wear them all the time. I got used to it and never went back to not wearing one.

[Tharkun]

Yeah, I wear a seat belt all the time. But there was this public service poster on the walls of my old high school devoted to debunking the rumor that wearing a seatbelt will ruin your outfit, so I don't think the consensus here is the norm.

[on_diet_cat]

Yes all the time. You will get the driver into trouble if you do not put on your seat belt even you sit behind.

[Xerophyte]

Not when I get chucked on the backseat I don't.

[Dyl]

Bus, no. When I'm in another vehicle, I always have my seatbelt on. However, I usually don't have to travel anywhere too far, so I usually ride a bicycle instead.

[AFI_Sorrow]

Yeah, I know five people who died in car crashes, and none of them were wearing a seatbelt.