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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 512476" data-attributes="member: 14668">You got lucky.&nbsp;Next time you are in that P-5, buckle the belt and lean your upper body forward. If you are built anything like me, your jaw will come to rest on the steering wheel and your forehead will press against the windshield. In a head-on collision your head will be propelled at high speed right thru the glass and your jaw and face will get mangled on the wheel. Instant lobotomy. Or, in a high-speed rollover, you will flail around in the cab like a rag doll with your head and upper body smashing into the bulkhead, the side door and the windshield.&nbsp;I should not have called the lap belt useless. It is marginally better than useless, but not by much. And the NHA and DOT agree with me, since it is illegal now to equip a new vehicle with such a belt in the first place and has been for almost 13 years. I would be willing to bet that 90% of the lap belt-equipped vehicles that are still even on the road are UPS trucks. No other company would have been so stupid or totally unconcerned with the safety of its people.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 512476, member: 14668"] You got lucky. Next time you are in that P-5, buckle the belt and lean your upper body forward. If you are built anything like me, your jaw will come to rest on the steering wheel and your forehead will press against the windshield. In a head-on collision your head will be propelled at high speed right thru the glass and your jaw and face will get mangled on the wheel. Instant lobotomy. Or, in a high-speed rollover, you will flail around in the cab like a rag doll with your head and upper body smashing into the bulkhead, the side door and the windshield. I should not have called the lap belt useless. It is marginally better than useless, but not by much. And the NHA and DOT agree with me, since it is illegal now to equip a new vehicle with such a belt in the first place and has been for almost 13 years. I would be willing to bet that 90% of the lap belt-equipped vehicles that are still even on the road are UPS trucks. No other company would have been so stupid or totally unconcerned with the safety of its people. [/QUOTE]

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