Mine passes saftey every time with my belts bein swapped out but the shop I go to is pretty relaxed on that kind of stuff like windshield washers he said they werent workin and I told him they were just clogged and id fix em when I got home and he passed me.

 

Just wait until their budget gets tight! :/
You'll find out how many laws you break, right quick. ;)

In AZ my '75 is exempt since wearing only a seat belt can do you more harm
than good.

I love my seat belt! :)
It holds my butt in the seat. :)
And it has been doing just-that since Feb of '75. :)

YMMV

Alvin in AZ

 

In MO if U get 12K license plates U don't have to wear a seat belt in your pickup......the law says 'motor Cars under 12,00 lbs. must use seatbelts'....my brother gets by with it all the time, btw, lives in NW MO.........100 miles north of KC......::

 

The cops around here are mostly sherrifs and four city cops. All of those have to cover the whole county. They usually have plenty to do with a healthy budjet and most of em know about thes trucks and how many have been changed over the years. I also like it cause they cant tell if your wearin it or not. I dont usually around town but if I go on the highway then I put it on. Ive also drove around town in the 85 without the seatbelt and they dont really care. I think that they will just add it on if they pull ya over for speedin or somethin else but wont pull ya over for just the seatbelt.

 

Seatbeals safes lives,wear them.It worked for me:
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Yeah thats why I put em on when im on the highway and the speed limit in the city is only 35 untill ya get on the outskirts of town. By the way whatd ya get hit by.

 

My girlfriend was hit head on by a dodge pickup while in a car similar to yours.

The seat belt -including- shoulder strap(!) hurt her in ways that rival your injuries.
The belts also saved her from much worse injuries at the same time tho. :)
Still she broke her heel bone off and her knee cap in half, on one leg.

A friend rolled his Chevy pickup over and if he'd had his plain ol' seat belt on
he'd faired much better. Seat belts alone aren't always better than no seat
belt just as shoulder strap alone can be worse than none (remember the cars
with the automatic shoulder strap? ...my GF's car was one of those and I got
on to her all the time about not putting on her seat belt) the shoulder strap
-alone- is bad to worse than none-at-all in many instances.
Neck injuries can be bad, right? ;)

The shoulder strap in my '91 F150 is a pain in the neck. ;)

The other bad thing about it IMO is the seat belt part of it doesn't hold my butt
in the seat. The sorry sucker is all about safety and not about being useful to
-me- (as a tool) on a daily basis. Something that sort of bothers me about it. :/

YMMV :)

Ever since I got a dune buggy in '75, I've been into seat belts. :)

A year or so later a really-drunk friend of mine took his dune buggy for a test
run one night after several of us had worked on his dune buggy (I was heavy
into into carburetors even back then) and he drove himself back, ran-over! :)

He ran over himself with his own dune buggy! :)
He was too drunk to know what happened exactly. LOL :)
Believe it? :)

Alvin in AZ

 

My brother uses them , just doesn't want to be told he Has To.....ya know....

 

seatbelt laws imo are just to make more money, thats why the ticket varies so much in different states. You should wear them, but you shouldnt HAVE to. Especailly because of the, albeit, rare occasions when in a certain accident, NOT wearing a seatbelt can actually save your life. 2 years ago on my birthday, one of my best friends from highschool was killed when he flipped his tundra, there is no doubt in my mind that if he had been wearing it, he would have barely been hurt. yet, i still dont wear mine lol.

 

dude how can you laugh about that? I work at a shop that does towing, we have an impound yard, I didn't have to look blood spattered all over the inside of a car to many times before I just wear mine. If the belt hasn't been cut they weren't wearing it, i have yet to see one with LARGE amounts of blood AND a cut belt.... You should learn from your friends death and wear your belt.