On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:00:04 +0100, "Simon Mason"
wrote:


"Jules" wrote in message
...


As a matter of interest: Do you wear a seat-belt in your car? Would you
wear one if it wasn't a legal requirement? Did you wear one before it was
a legal requirement (assuming you are old enough)?

I do wear my seat belt in my car and did not wear it before it became law.
Incidentally, my dad crashed his car in 1974 into a telegraph pole which
wiped out the driver's side. He was thrown into the passenger seat and
lived, had he worn a seat belt he would have been killed.


Yes - I have met loads of people down the pub who had exactly the same
thing happen to one of their relatives.

Also, there were no end of people killed when their cars went in to
canals just after compulsory seat belts came in as well and they
could not escape.

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"Primary position" the middle of a traffic lane. To take the "primary position" : to ride a bike in the middle of the lane in order to obstruct other road vehicles from overtaking.

A term invented by and used by psycholists and not recognised in the Highway Code.