Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Road Safety - seat belt!

As a vehicle operator, I mean driver. I don't like to use the word driver.... sounds like screw driver, so refer as vehicle operator.
We know basic road safety like fasten your seat belts so will not smash yourself into the windscreen but break your ribs during a crash so that so you will still survive.

Or turn on your headlights on freeway/highway or during raining (don't care heavy rain or drizzling) to let incoming traffic to know your vehicle is visible. Reason to turn on headlights on freeway during day time is because road are flat...sometimes is abit hard to see incoming traffic due to the road surface reflections and is abit hard to judge moving objects, with the lights, at least show some visibility.

Most western country has a very strict rules on child seat or child bucket seat where you straps them to a specially made seat and make sure they don't bounce in the car every corner when you do a sharp turn. They are really good. I had personally seen an accident of one car and one Land Cruiser 4x4. Land cruiser is over turn turtle in the middle of the road... 2 baby twins at the back... for good sake, the baby still fasten strap to the child bucket seat unhurt even the car over turn turtle. so is worth the money.

Kids below 9 (something like that, but i know is "old") are not allow to sit at front seat if really follow the road rules as they are not fully protected by the seat belt due to their body size.. darn.

All those rules are simple common sense... but one another rules I was taught one of my client.
No matter what age, big small, he or she, you like it or not, enforced rules or not, but if you are in the car, is your rules and the person has to obey or take own responsibility. the person sitting in the middle of the back seat has to buckle up at all time when the vehicle is moving. Back sides passengers have the option not to buckle up but is recommended to do so. The reason is, for the safety, as we don't really know when is going to crash which everyone is trying not to. if the person is buckle up, at least he or she will not fly out thru the front windscreen like a catapult if any crash occur which will save his/her fromm killing ownself. This is not a joke and is true. ^_^

guys. gals.This is your captain speaking, if you are sitting at the middle of the back seat, you got no choice and required to buckle your seat belt at all time even the seat belt lights has been turn off unless the engine has been turn off. hahaha

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