[JLBullitt]

I thought the grave yard would be a good place to have this:

How many BC members owe their life to seatbelts?

I know I do, and I was only doing 30 in a '86 Jeep Grand Wagoneer.
I totaled it, I was fine, my friend bruised and my brother got stitches in his forehead (Rock wall vs. his window).
Without seatbelts we would have been either splats on the rock wall I hit or tossed into the 40 ft ravine next to the road.

 

[Badkharma]

A HUGE 'gunboat' cadillac turned left while I crossed an intersection...I was going 40 mph, the limit, and didn't even have time to put my foot on the brake. The airbags deployed (it was a 1998 Jetta) but I didn't 'get to' hit them. The seatbelt stopped me first. I didn't even bruise on my shoulder or feel sore or anything.

 

[bullitt1067]

Well my story took place about 5 years ago. A couple of my friends and I were on our way to watch a movie. I was 15 at the time and we had our friends dads 84 chevy cavalier (we thought it was fast :smile: ) well we decited to see how fast we could take it. Well when we started to 90-100 miles the car started to shake like no other so we told our friend to slow down. He felt like scarying us so he swerved the car and we flipped the car 5 1/2 times going about 100mph. When we go out of the car that was upside down there was gas every where. But all five of walked away with minor scratches. So now I make every one that gets in 1067 wear their seatbelt.

 

[Hank]

I survived tangling with a 16-wheel dump truck in 1998. The seat belt saved my butt. I still miss that 88 GT :sad: it was like brand-new...look at the paint shine.

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Hank, DHG No. 2634

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[donwil]

Good God, I hope no one was in the passenger area.

 

[Badkharma]

One of my good friends was killed instantly about 3 years ago for one reason only...she wasn't wearing a seatbelt. Her tire blew out and she rolled. If she was wearing it, the paramedics said that she would have been able to walk away.

 

[BULLITTBRO1]

Well I have a few under my belt. 88 bronco being the only one i was driving. I was doing about 40 and had a tire blow out. and i went right into a tree. Thanks to the belt i did not go flying through the windshield. been in 6 all together rearended=1, headone 1, lost controll 4 times. Thats why i like to drive. only one that i was driving

 

[dabullitt2272]

Oct 4th,1996. Wouldn't be typing this today if not for the belts!!!

 

[rancorkeeper]

Actually, I've been in two rollovers (80 F250 & 88 New Yorker) both at about 30mph & wasn't wearing a belt either time & I was fine - no bumps, bruises or scratches. I also had a very close friend in college rollover in his lifted Toyota truck & both the cops & emergency personnel said if he had been wearing his belt, he probably would've died - the entire cab of the truck was crushed flat, he fell into the leg area & the back of the bench seat folded on top of him.

 

[BB00797]

My wife and I slid across a four lane freeway twice bouncing off the center devider and hitting a bridge guardrail head on at about 50mph. I am pretty sure if it wasn't for the belts, she would have tacoed around the steering wheel and me through the windshield to the road below. I Became a big believer in seatbelts that night. That was about 8 years ago already. I can still see the impact. The car was a 90 Ford probe and held up very well. It was totalled.

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[BB00797]

My wife and I slid across a four lane freeway twice bouncing off the center devider and hitting a bridge guardrail head on at about 50mph. I am pretty sure if it wasn't for the belts, she would have tacoed around the steering wheel and me through the windshield to the road below. I Became a big believer in seatbelts that night. That was about 8 years ago already. I can still see the impact. The car was a 90 Ford probe and held up very well. It was totalled.

#797

 

[MFBullitt435]

I know this is the RARE RARE exception, but have you ever heard the famous George Lucas story?

When he was a teen in Modesto, CA, he had some kind of hot rod and he had this five-point racing seatbelt. Anyway, he was on these mountain roads going too fast and he spun off the road and the car wrapped itself around a tree, almost inside out. The only reason he lived was that, for some cosmically strange twist of fate, the racing seatbelt miraculously ripped up from the floor of the car and he was thrown clear before the vehicle folded up on what would have been his whole body.

Again, this is an exception. I am all for seatbelts.

Mike

 

[bullitthead]

I was driving a former New York State Trooper LX 5.0 'stang.I was on a country road,torqueing up into 3rd gear when a deer jumped over the rail in front of me.One evasive maneuver later and I was hanging upside down by my seatbelt after a multiple rollover!
At least the deer and I survived--the LX was total scrap.To this day I won't even think about not wearing my belt.

 

[Bulittt]

I got hit REAL bad about 15 months ago. A drunk rear ended me in my 98 Civic Coupe. He was doing about 40 and never even touched the brakes. I was stopped at the time. It was touch and go but they fixed the car (I later traded it in on the Bullitt).

I was wearing my seat belt and I didn't see him coming til the last minute, the belt saved me from wearing a steering wheel smile after striking the head rest with my head.

BTW, my step sons rolled a Bronco in Seattle last weekend. They hit black ice at 20 MPH and flipped it. Totalled the vehicle and they were not wearing belts. One had a broken arm, which may have happened anyway.

 

[cammo-bdu]

I was with City of Pittsburgh EMS in the mid-80's, riding shotgun in our response vehicle ('86 Bronco II), running hard on a call for a kid who tried to hang herself. Driver hydroplaned trying to stop for a red, entered the intersection and struck a big chevy corner-to corner. Pinned our doors shut, totaled the Bronc. Seatbelts kept us from kissing the windshield. No injuries.

 

[gbranton]

I think I am here today because of seat belts (at least with my present appearance). In 1985 a careless diver crossed into my lane in the middle of a curve and forced me off of the road. I slid into a tree on the passenger side which threw me across the car toward the side window. I vividly remember that inertia reel locking up with my face inches away from that glass. This was how I lost my first Mustang GT.

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True Blue Bullitt #4398

'90 GT conertible: Stage II World heads, Edelbrock Performer 5.0 intake, E-303 cam, ect., ect., ect....


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[TwoStangWmn]

One lucky dude there! Mustangs are in your blood I see..... :grin:

 

[bullitt1067]

Seatbelt saved my butt. 5 guys in a z24 filpped it 5 1/5 times going 100. All 5 of us walked away with minor injuries. By the way I was not driving.

Leo

 

[gbranton]

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One lucky dude there! Mustangs are in your blood I see..... :grin:
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In my blood would be putting it sort of mildly, I guess. I've had a total of 4 GT/Cobra/Bullitts, the two in my sig, the one above, plus '94 Cobra #1525. It was KIA in head on collision with a Surburban by an ex-girlfriend (no pictures). The seatbelt and airbag did it's job on that one! Don't ask me about resale value, I keep 'em or kill 'em! LOL!

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True Blue Bullitt #4398

'90 GT conertible: Stage II World heads, Edelbrock Performer 5.0 intake, E-303 cam, ect., ect., ect....

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[#1601Bulit01]

I was in my 92 Ford Ranger in rush hour traffic. I was sitting still under a green light not moving. I looked in my rearview mirror and a mini van was coming down on me. When she hit me she was doing 55 mph. Fortunately, my seat belt caught me and my rib cage. Luckily I didn't hit the car in front of me. No one rides with me unless they wear there seat belt. The mini van was totalled and my Ranger only suffered a slightly twisted back bumper. "FORD TOUGH"