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Wearing a seat belt in 1998? Nice try zoomer ;)
in 1998? yes we definitely were wearing a seat belt. I didn't see many in my circle not wearing them. Of course the drunk uncle sometimes wasn't.
Maybe it’s a local thing, but back then many of my grown up relatives were still on the “but what if I need to get out of the car quick” bandwagon.
Motherfucker, you ain’t gonna be in any shape to get out of the car if you ain’t wearing a seat belt.
Well, the were exiting through the windshield quickly back in the day...
high school in 1998 - we 100% were wearing seatbelts by default.
we're not THAT old!
Of course the drunk uncle sometimes wasn’t.
The drunk uncle would hook the seatbelt up before getting in so he didn't hear the bell. Said it was safer that way, because he happened to survive a car accident once and claimed wearing a seatbelt would have killed him.
Haha ya that sounds like him
We might have had the same uncle. Was he a back room tattoo artist who learned in prison too?
In Germany you have to wear a seatbelt since 1976. Where are you from that you still didnt had this law in 1998?
Oh the law was there.
Enforcement was practically non existent and it was generally seen as evidence of government overreach (“who are they that they can tell me what to do?”) instead of good safety practice.
Edit: I looked up a recent study. Apparently 1/3 of drivers in that particular country didn’t wear seat belts in 2021. How they manage to do that with modern cars is a mystery to me.
Click in the belt and sit on it. Or cut off the buckle and click it in place, or order a spare and click that one in if you don't want to damage your seatbelt.
Please don't do these things. If you are in the car, you should have your seatbelt on. Even if you are just sitting in a parking lot.