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If you are not wearing a seat belt and thrown through the windshield what are the percentages of you dying?
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How likely are you to die from not wearing a seat belt?
The seat belt is meant to keep you in place during impact. If you are not wearing one and the impact is strong enough, you could be thrown through the windshield or around inside the vehicle. It is meant for protection to minimize injury.
What are the risks of wearing a seatbelt in the car?
Nothing compared to the risk of not wearing one. (In theory, you may be trapped in the car. However, all research shows that this is negligble a danger compared with being thrown through the windshield at 30 miles per hour.)
What can wearing a seatbelt prevent in a car crash?
Prevents your head from going thru the windshield (ouch). Also prevents you from being thrown out of the car during an accident.
What will happen if you don't wear a seat belt?
What will happen? Most times, nothing at all will happen, as most car journeys finish safely.However, what might happen is a different matter.If an accident happens, you could be thrown around the car, you might be thrown against other passengers, or you might be thrown through the windshield. You have a much greater chance of surviving a serious accident if you are wearing a seat belt.
If your not wearing a seatbelt how can you be a danger to other people in the car?
If you're in the rear seat and the car has a head-on collision you will be thrown into the people in the front seats with an amazing force. You might injure them directly, or cause their belts to snap, leaving them free to get thrown into the windshield or be ejected out of the car.
How does inertia affect someone not wearing a seat belt?
In a collision you could be thrown forward and get "crowned" by the windshield. I saw many "crownings" as a kid! The head breaks through the glass then the body rebounds and the safety glass clamps around the head, it gets very bloody and some people even get partially "scalped". You are stuck until someone breaks away the rest of the windshield!
How do you get your windshield fixed from debris that got thrown up and through your windshield wo having to pay a lot?
ok if it was done by a trucking company you should contact them but if it was done by normal drivers just go to a winshield company and get a quote
Why are seat belt important?
they help to keep you:1) from being thrown from your car2) from hitting the dashboard too hard3) in better control of your car(p.14-1)To keep you safer when you have a crash and do not fly through the windshield. Also so that the police know you're safe and you do not get pulled up by them.
In a crash safety belts keep?
They keep you in your seat, and not thrown from the car, though the windshield, into the steering wheel, etc.
Why do people wear seat belts?
Because in the event of a accident, and at high enough speeds, you can be thrown from your seat and out the vehicles windshield, but a seatbelt will restrain you and keep you in your seat so that you are not thrown from the car.
What is the purpose of seat belt?
Too keep the person sitting in the seat from being thrown forward if the vehicle should come to a sudden stop. Being thrown against the belt is much less dangerous than being thrown into the windshield or out of the car.
What is the name of the actor who gets thrown off the building by Kevin costner wearing the white suit at the end of the untouchables he falls through roof of car?
Billy Drago played Frank Nitti, the mob guy who is thrown from a building by Kevin Costner's character, Eliot Ness, in The Untouchables.
