A seat belt or seatbelt, sometimes called a safety belt, is a safety harness designed to secure the occupant of a vehicle against harmful movement that may result from a collision or a sudden stop. As part of an overall automobile passive safety system, seat belts are intended to reduce injuries by stopping the wearer from hitting hard interior elements of the vehicle, or other passengers (the so-called second impact), are in the correct position for the airbag to deploy and prevent the passenger from being thrown from the vehicle. Seat belts also absorb energy by being designed to stretch during any sudden deceleration, so that there is less speed differential between the passenger's body and their vehicle interior, and also to spread the loading of impact on the passengers body.
The final, so-called 'third impact' after a passenger's body hits the car interior, airbag or seat belts, is that of the internal organs hitting the ribcage or skull. The force of this impact is the mechanism through which car crashes cause disabling or life threatening injury. The sequence of energy dissipating and speed reducing technologies - crumple zone - seat belt - airbags - padded interior, are designed to work together as a system, to reduce the force of this final impact.
IN YEAR 2008, MALAYSIAN WAS FORCE TO WEAR SAFETY BELT EVEN FOR REAR SEAT PASSENGERS!!! AND MANY HAVE BEEN COMPLAINING AND ALSO NOT WEARING IT!!! DON'T YOU THINK THAT WEARING A SAFETY BELT IS MUCH SAFER...
NEWS TAKEN FROM BERNAMA
KUALA LUMPUR, April 26 (Bernama) -- A rule, which will make it compulsory for rear seat passengers to use seat belts, is applicable only to private vehicles, Transport Minister Datuk Ong Tee Keat said Saturday.
As such, he said, public transports such as taxis and buses would be exempted from the ruling, which would take effect in September.
"However, since passenger safety is our main concern, we will conduct a study on whether to make the ruling compulsory for public transport as well," he told reporters after attending the Kampung Pandan neighbourhood watch orientation programme here.
Ong also said that the rule was only for vehicles registered after January 1, 1995.
"However, there are certain model of cars which have no rear seat belts. We will give the owner ample time to install them," he said.
The public would be given three months, beginning June to September, to get used to wearing the rear safety belts, after which summonses would be issued to those who failed to comply with the ruling, he said.
-- BERNAMA
BUT TILL NOW, THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE WHO DONT WEAR THE SAFETY BELT!!! ACCIDENTS ARE HAPPENING FREQUENTLY AND YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU WILL GET INTO AN ACCIDENT, WHETHER IS YOUR FAULT OR ANOTHER VEHICLE FAULT... YOU NEVER KNOW THAT IF YOU WEAR A SAFETY BELT DURING THAT TIME, IT CAN SAFE YOUR LIFE!!!
HERE IS 2 VIDEOS I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU GUYS WHY WEARING A SAFETY BELT IS SOO IMPORTANT... LIFE IS FRAGILE...
THIS IS ONLY MY OPINION.. NO OFFENDED WITH WHAT AM SHARING HERE!!! HEHEHEHEHE
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