| Drucker's seat belt broke and his forehead slammed into the uncushioned coaming at the bottom of the windshield frame. |
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| Many of them said there was no reason to wear a seat belt because most of the streets in the city were so congested with traffic. |
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| I undid my seat belt and hopped out of the car in my usual two point nine seconds. |
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| It needs to be the correct size and should be held firmly in place with the seat belt or by wedging it firmly in the footwell. |
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| The car has been plagued by at least six repair notices, ranging from faulty fuel tanks to seat belt flaws. |
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| It is rare to find a seat belt in a local car and wearing one is considered as daggy as wearing a helmet on a motorbike. |
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| The young man assisted me into the automobile and I strapped on a holster seat belt. |
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| Strangely, though, when you omit to fasten your seat belt the car lets out a single soft, sweet, sustained chime. |
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| Since it was raining and he was driving fast and always with only one hand, I have fastened the seat belt. |
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| Jacob was tall enough now to see over the dashboard even with his seat belt fastened. |
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| I smiled at the air stewardess, pushed my bag away and quickly fastened my seat belt. |
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| She let the operators slip off her high-heels, fasten the seat belt, and pull over the metal strap. |
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| In Goldman, the pilot had to make a decision as to whether to illuminate the seat belt instruction light. |
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| We stopped at a red light and he reached over me and put my seat belt on for me. |
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| He wants to put on his own seat belt, brush his own teeth, and climb the stairs on his own. |
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| The driver is required to blow into the built-in device before fastening the seat belt. |
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| Airbags are not a substitute for a seat belt, so always wear your seat belt even if your car has air bags. |
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| She was wearing her seat belt yet she suffered head injuries grave enough to cause her death. |
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| Everyone knows, or ought to know, that when he goes out in a car he should fasten the seat belt. |
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| It's the next best thing to sitting inside a real one and putting your shoulder out of joint reaching for the seat belt. |
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| Front seats come with an integrated seat belt which means no stretching back to grab the belt off the door pillar. |
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| Quietly, and cautiously, she unbuckled the seat belt and crawled over James's lap. |
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| He jumped out of the car quickly, opening my door for me before I even picked my purse up of the floor and unbuckled my seat belt. |
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| Distractedly, I unbuckled my seat belt and stood up on legs that felt strange. |
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| She had slackened off her seat belt slightly to allow her to turn towards Knowles and plead with him. |
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| A booster seat helps the seat belt fit better for older children who are not big enough for the safety belt alone. |
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| A booster seat lifts your child up so the seat belt fits right and protects your child. |
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| I learned the hard way just how critically important it is to always wear a seat belt. |
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| Shaking my head, I buckled my seat belt as the cheery voice of the stewardess announced out arrival. |
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| And this goes double if the insurance company does measure easily changeable behavior, such as speeding or seat belt use. |
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| As the car had landed on the passenger side, the driver was suspended in mid-air by his seat belt. |
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| The court was told the defendant was stopped by police because he was not wearing a seat belt. |
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| Greg hadn't gotten his seat belt on, when Maxine put her foot down on the accelerator, and peeled out, after Jenny. |
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| They should only wear a two-point lap belt if a three-point seat belt is not available. |
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| He refuses to wear a seat belt when he's riding in the passenger side of a car. |
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| Start by contacting the manufacturer to find an authorized dealer in your area who can equip your tractor with a roll bar and a seat belt. |
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| The car has been plagued by two recalls and at least six repair notices, ranging from faulty fuel tanks to seat belt flaws. |
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| Lifting the backrest restores both seat base and head restraints, with no seat belt manoeuvring required. |
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| If the vehicle rolls, the car triggers the side airbags and seat belt tensioners to help protect occupants. |
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| Wear your seat belt and ensure that all your passengers are properly belted. |
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| I turned the car off and unbuckled my seat belt, also watching Alexandria struggle with her own. |
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| I quickly exited the aircraft, unchained the nose gear, climbed back in, and buckled my seat belt. |
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| The detector could easily be wired to activate a dashboard alarm light similar to ones that notify a driver that a seat belt is unclasped. |
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| I hit the door hard, unfastening my seat belt and reaching for the handle behind me. |
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| She nodded and unfastened her seat belt as Wil came around to open the door for her. |
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| The seat belt, of course, functions to restrain the seat's user in the seat in the unhoped for event of an accident. |
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| She buckled her seat belt and opened the window to look out on Newark at night. |
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| More drivers are buckling up more often, according to a seat belt survey conducted last week. |
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| Fasten the cage securely to the vehicle or secure it with a seat belt. |
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| As we prepared to land, he explained the need to fasten a seat belt. |
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| The seat belt sign blinked off meaning it was safe to un-buckle the belts. |
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| Becky refastened her seat belt and they both rolled up their windows. |
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| The driver, a young guy, was hung up in his seat belt with blood pouring out of his left arm, sliced to the bone. |
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| I had not clipped on my seat belt and was in great danger of falling out. |
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| I have to wear my seat belt in my car and a reflector belt at night time. |
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| He told police his wife was playing a game, seeing if the seat belt buzzer would stop. |
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| I unclasped my seat belt and locked all the doors, my utmost security measure in case of imminent fright, while I stared outside looking for a sign of life. |
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| As for what that states, I mean, it's like wearing a seat belt when you know there may be a risk that you're going to have a head-on collision. |
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| We desperately need to improve road safety with safety equipment in cars, seat belt campaigns and better road signs. |
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| More convenient belts and the introduction of seat belt reminders have proven to be effective methods. |
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| Otherwise, the best thing to do is remain in your vehicle with your seat belt fastened until help arrives. |
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| Wearing a seat belt reduces by half the risk of being killed or seriously injured in an accident. |
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| The inflation rate of these dual-stage airbags adjusts depending on crash severity and seat belt usage. |
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| Seat belts arrive at the car manufacturer ready charged with an explosive propellant, which pulls the seat belt into the driver or passenger. |
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| The most important action is to establish legislation to make seat belt wearing compulsory for all vehicle occupants. |
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| Controls for conducting the vehicle must be accessible with fastened seat belt. |
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| While seated, we suggest that you keep your seat belt fastened at all times. |
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| I sat in the police car and the guard put the seat belt on me. |
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| Children in a booster seat have a 60 percent lower risk of sustaining a serious injury due to the seat belt being positioned correctly over a child's shoulder. |
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| Failure to use a booster seat in a crash can result in seat belt syndrome, a pattern of intra-abdominal and spinal injuries caused by the improper fit of seat belts. |
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| The shuttle landed upside down, and if she hadn't been wearing her seat belt, Saffron likely would have crushed her skull on the shuttle's unpadded metal ceiling. |
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| Leopold turned around in his chair, unbuckling the seat belt as he did. |
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| She shakily unfastened her seat belt and opened the car door. |
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| Neither of the friends was wearing a seat belt and they could have been watching a dashboard DVD system when the smash took place, an inquest heard. |
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| In a column written for the Daily Nebraskan in September, Derek attacked seat belt laws as intrusions on individual liberties and expensive to enforce. |
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| In a rollover crash, an unbelted person is significantly more likely to die than a person wearing a seat belt. |
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| Most traffic safety experts agree that the seat belt remains the world's most effective safety device. |
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| Overturning the tractor without a roll bar, or with a roll bar and the seat belt unfastened, can result in death or injury. |
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| Always use the seat belt, except if the roll bar has been removed or, if applicable, the roll bar is in the folded position. |
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| Within approximately seven seconds of the light turning off, buckle then unbuckle the seat belt. |
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| For the seating position being disabled, at a moderate speed, buckle then unbuckle the seat belt nine times, ending in the unbuckled state. |
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| The warning sequence repeats 12 times, and the lamp remains on if the seat belt remains unbuckled. |
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| A warning indicator on the instrument pack will illuminate if a front seat belt is unbuckled. |
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| Suddenly my wife unbuckled her seat belt and using extraordinary strength, I pulled her free of the wreckage. |
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| His keening caterwaul sounds as if he had flicked the ejector switch but forgotten to undo his seat belt. |
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| Never use the seat belt extender in any other vehicle you may own in the future. |
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| Unmindful of the flames coming up through the dashboard, Ms. Wiznuk unhooked the unconscious victim's seat belt and pulled her out. |
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| Mr. James said the booster seat should buckle into the car's seat belt system. |
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| If the seat belt does not fit in this way, the child should still use a booster seat according to the manufacturer's recommendations. |
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| Because the seat belt is directly connected to the body of the vehicle, the passengers benefit fully from the effect of the crumple zone. |
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| The car's occupants should always be wearing a seat belt correctly and recline against a backrest that is more or less upright. |
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| Something about the look of panic when hanging in the seat belt and waiting for the crunch that never comes is just too funny to pass up. |
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| Although the heat and flames were intense, Mr. Lavoie reached in through the door, unhooked the seat belt and pulled the woman out. |
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| Most passengers, including the passenger without a seat belt, were mobile and were able to leave the aircraft unassisted. |
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| The aircraft seats were equipped with a combined seat belt and inertia reel shoulder strap with a single latch. |
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| The seat belt is also often seen as uncomfortable or even restricting. |
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| Also, many automatic seat belt systems are incompatible with child safety seats, or only compatible with special modifications. |
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| The combination of the defined extensibility of the webbings with belt tensioner and belt force limiter means that the deceleration values for the occupants wearing a seat belt remain acceptable, even in serious collisions. |
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| The landing announcement failed to wake her, and when the flight attendant asked her to fasten her seat belt she did it in a drowse, without looking. |
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| This is particularly true of the seat belt. |
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| The gauging device may come into contact with strap hangers, if fitted, or other flexible objects such as seat belt components and move them away. |
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| Thirty-three states have primary seat belt laws, which allow police to stop and ticket drivers if they or their passengers are not buckled up. |
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| The importance of wearing one's seat belt has never been more evident or emphasized that in the last several years. |
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| It's no coincidence that deaths in motor vehicle accidents have been declining, while seat belt use has climbed. |
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| In fact, in practice, nine out of ten parents move a child from a booster seat to a seat belt too soon. |
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| To unbuckle the seat belt press the coloured seat belt lock button. |
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| One answer is that the broken tail light poses a potential hazard to others, while the unbuckled seat belt does not. |
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| This feature provides additional reminders by intermittently sounding a chime and illuminating the seat belt warning light in the instrument cluster when the driver's and front passenger's seat belt is unbuckled. |
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| Although the laws are in place for seat belt usage, it is obvious that there are very few people who observe these laws. |
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| While Mr. Reynolds attempted to extinguish the flames and struggled to open the driver's badly damaged door, Mr. Walker entered through the rear door, pulled the front seat back, and unbuckled the driver's seat belt. |
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| Both the seat belt and the armrest are integrated into the seat itself. |
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| The effects of seat belt laws are disputed by those who observe that their passage did not reduce road fatalities. |
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| Bumbo has reacted to the baby seat recall by offering a seat belt kit for the seats. |
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| Yet in Paris she failed to buckle her seat belt in a fleeing car. |
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| The Escape Belt can be installed easily on almost any existing seat belt through a few simple steps with the supplied Allen key. |
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| They must be able to sit in the jump seat without an extended seat belt and fit through the emergency exit window. |
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| As a result, a designated federal regulatory offence, such as operating a pleasure craft with an insufficient number of lifejackets, is treated much like a provincial offence, such as driving without wearing a seat belt. |
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| An analysis conducted in the United States in 1984 compared a variety of seat belt types alone and in combination with air bags. |
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| Volvo then made the new seat belt design patent open in the interest of safety and made it available to other car manufacturers for free. |
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| However, although an arm on top of the seat moves the seat belt forward to make it easier to grab in theory, it's not easy at all, and you almost have to be a contortionist to get a hold of it. |
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| When not in use, remove it from the vehicle or fasten it with a seat belt, or latch it down to BOTH LATCH lower anchors for LATCH child-restraint systems and the corresponding tether anchor. |
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| So take a look at your own driving, and follow these simple rules: always wear your seat belt, follow traffic rules, obey the speed limit and drive defensively. |
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| The videos from this testing show how, if secured by a seat belt, the potential for surviving a roll and tumble crash are increased dramatically, as the occupants stay in the vehicles. |
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| When the forward right attachment failed, the base of the mounting bracket rode up over the seat belt attachment bolts, and the bracket was effectively jammed in this aft position. |
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| In addition, it was Harbour Air's policy to conduct a passenger safety briefing, including seat belt fastening and adjustment, before all flights. |
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| Work is underway in various countries looking at interlocks for seat belts that would prevent the functioning of some aspect of the vehicle, such as a time delay in putting it into gear if the seat belt is not fastened. |
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| Help with the passenger's luggage and seat belt if possible and necessary. |
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| Where technology and changes to the vehicle could help increase seat belt and child seat safety, NORP will work towards effective and better vehicle solutions. |
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| A good data programme should include information on collision and casualty data, seat belt and child seat usage rates, and public awareness and attitudes towards injury protection devices. |
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| Last but not least, the seat belt is now attached directly to the front passenger seat instead of the ceiling and door, as was previously the case. |
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| The seat belt is attached to the sides of the frame. |
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| This will allow anyone who drives too fast, drives without a seat belt or goes through a red light, to be asked in a simple and efficient manner to pay a fine in the country in which the traffic offence took place. |
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| Had it not been for him, I might have been gone by the time Becky unfastened her seat belt, but as it was I was only four rows away, standing, as it turned out, right beside the bulkhead. |
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| The reality is that not wearing a seat belt is like playing a form of Russian roulette. |
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| If you're not really sure, you still wear your seat belt. |
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| It appears he was not wearing his seat belt and was ejected from his vehicle. His vehicle was found smashed and on it's roof near a broken utility pole. |
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| Casualty insurers should be encouraged to actively support road safety and seat belt wearing through information campaigns and other appropriate strategies. |
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| It is possible that the practice of adjusting the cabin lap belt to the centre of the body influenced the adjusting of the seat belt in the right front seat. |
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| Pretensioners are used to tighten a seat belt in the event of an accident. |
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| Though he could not describe his residence, Deborah tells me that he unclasps his seat belt as they draw near and offers to get out and open the gate. |
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| One characteristic of the optimal SBR, according to the research, is that the audible warning becomes increasingly penetrating the longer the seat belt remains unfastened. |
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| However, Smeed's law predicts a fall in accident rate with increasing car ownership and has been demonstrated independently of seat belt legislation. |
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| Write tickets for seat belt violations, lane changes without using turn signals, brake lights out, rolling stops at stop signs, all violations of any type. |
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| Don't unbuckle your seat belt until the flight attendant says it is safe to move around the cabin. |
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| The accident serves as a harsh reminder of the importance of wearing a seat belt. |
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| In 1973 Volkswagen announced they had a functional passive seat belt. |
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| This has led many countries to adopt mandatory seat belt wearing laws. |
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| It was a miracle that I survived that ditching in the high waves because I had my seat belt and shoulder harness unbuckled in anticipation of bailing out. |
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| New Hampshire lacks both a primary and secondary seat belt law. |
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