Does anyone have a problem with seat belts?

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They are a comfort to me. I feel strange/nakedish when I'm not wearing it, that feeling reminds me to put it on.

So. I'm still here. Which is, in some ways, a surprise, if you read on...

Seat belts...


1. I was the passenger in a brand new DAF van (c1970, so with no seat belts legally required, and none fitted), whose wheel nuts had not been tightened correctly. After a 200 mile drive, while going round a gentle curve, at about 30mph, a back wheel "fell off" (or rather, lost all traction as it went into a violent wobble with the studs sheared through). We rolled, I hit the roof of the cab and went into the back, unconscious and covered in glass. The driver narrowly missed being killed by the roof, which had folded down into a spike. Sitting in the wreck, some days later, we saw that his forehead must have been a inch away from the spike's point. He luckily had managed to maintain his hold on the steering wheel. I was X-rayed that night, told there was no damage, and after a few days to get over the bruising, returned to university. A month later, after complaining of progressively worse headaches, I had three burr holes drilled in my skull to remove 30cl of sub-dural haematoma. NO SEAT BELTS.
   
2. Again a passenger, my driver lost control in a situation which was not entirely his fault. The car (an MGB/GT) turned to present me, broadside on, to a coincidentally similar (MGB/GT) car coming the other way. I was trapped in the seat, which after the accident was crushed to half its original width. My pelvis was fractured. If I had not remained in my seat, I would likely have gone out through the side window, and under the wheels of the double decker bus that had come to rest thereabouts. SEAT BELTS.
   
3. Strangely, the same pairing as above, but with me driving. I was driving along a built-up road, with right of way, and as I came to a cross-roads, with housing on all corners, a car came straight across the "Halt" sign travelling at about 30mph. I had no time to do anything - it hit the pillar behind my head. Both cars spun 180 degrees and I ended up with a bruised knee (which is how I knew I was only in third gear at the time). SEAT BELTS.
   
4. I was driving west, out of London, on a dual carriageway. On setting off from some traffic lights, there was a collision between the two cars ahead of me. I managed to stop, but the guy behind me, and the one behind him, crashed into each other and me, and pushed me forward into the front two. Five cars. It seemed that the guy in front of me had probably been distracted by the three cars on the other carriageway, going the other way, who had collided earlier. He hadn't seen that the car in front of him had slowed down. Just after that a further three cars piled into one another, on the other carriageway, watching us. So. Eleven cars in total. Around twenty people, I think. The sole injury was the SINGLE PERSON NOT WEARING A SEATBELT - the guy in front of me. Although we had only just left the traffic lights, and hence were not travelling at any great speed, he had gone through his windscreen and had glass embedded in his eyeball.

My son hated seatbelts from the moment he had to wear them, still does, as a teenager. He hated to be buckled into car seats and infant seats when he was little, he'd scream and cry. He doesn't like the feel of them, he feels "strangled and stuck", as he puts it. He's always been tactically sensitive, from his first day of life onward. My husband doesn't mind them, though; he's really easy to travel with. As long as he has his cooler and his hat just so, though, lol. My son always has to have things "just so", so at least I'm used to it. And I'm kinda that way myself a lot of the time.

I don't mind seatbelts in cars, but I HATE them in planes. Actually, almost everything about flying is uncomfortable now, but the seatbelts are special torture.

I can't sit in the back left seat of any car due to hating how the seatbelt and seat feel to me. I'm fine in the front left of a car and anywhere else but the back left always feels horrible and has for as long as i can remember.

ow lau, good you didn't tell all that before i had a ride in your car

I wear them because it's the law. Plus I have been in car accidents, one of which would have resulted in me being killed if I hadn't been wearing it, judging on the damage done to my car.

I know not wearing a seatbelt is stupid, im not thick I just don't know what else to do.
Im not particularly worried about dying, I've tried it myself a fair few times, I just don't want to hurt other people.
When Im in the back I lie down so as to avoid hurting anyone and im also on constant alert.
I don't want to be a bad person but I also don't know how to cope with the seatbelt.

:/