Gov. Corzine was not wearing a seat belt :(

[luvofallhorses]

YES. I will not ride in a car without one.

same here.

[Sirrahsim]

It is just plain foolish to ride in a vehicle or let anyone ride in a vehicle with you without a seatbelt.

[Karen]

I always buckle up now, it's state law. I usually did anyway, but the one time I was in a car accident and hadn't buckled in, it probably saved me. We were in my sister's 1969 Ford Falcon - had-me-down car from my grandfather, then big brother. So it was an old car, 15 years old, and built like a tank. We were on the curves of the infamous Southeast Expressway in Boston, and a ladder had fallen off a truck into the lane we were traveling in. A light rain had just begun to fall, so when my sister braked to avoid the ladder, we ended up skidding straight across 4 or 5 lanes of traffic, and hit the guardrail head-on, leaving us perpendicular to oncoming traffic. A much newer, smaller car couldn't stop in time and hit us pretty hard, right in the passenger side door. Had I been wearing my seatbelt, I would have been strapped TO that door, but as there were three of us in the front seat, I ended up just bouncing into the lap of the girl in the middle. The worst injury was my sister ended up with a gash on her knee from where it hit the CB radio mount under the dash.

And much to, I think, the policemen's bemusement, my life-size Raggedy Ann doll and pumpkin rode in the cruiser with us, as they got us off the highway. Neither of them were injured either.

[Taz_Zoee]

I feel weird riding/driving in a car without a seat belt. It is totally habit to put it on.

[cali]

99% of the time. the only time I take it off is when traveling long distances in the middle of nowhere. I live in the praries..its flat, no hills no mountins, no cliffs, no tree's and hardly another car in sight, only then will I take my seatbelt off to sleep, and I put it back on as soon as I wake up, I cant sleep in a seatbelt lol

[.sarah]

I always wear one, even if I'm just driving a block away.