02-02-2021, 07:43 PM
As above the case for seatbelts in an open car without a hideous roll bar is debatable. Difficult to find a top mount for the belt so may not even protect from contact with the screen.
Closed cars are another matter. As a teenager I observed close up the driver fall slowly out of a diagonally cartwheeling A35 at the loacl race track and realised that he would have been quite safe contained. And a colleague of my fathers fell out of his car in a very low speed intersection prang. So my RP had a belt from the early 1960s
(not relevant, but when belts first appeared here adverts often included a photo of a Citroen 15 which hit a pole and broke in two held together only by the seat belt. The driver survived!!)
Closed cars are another matter. As a teenager I observed close up the driver fall slowly out of a diagonally cartwheeling A35 at the loacl race track and realised that he would have been quite safe contained. And a colleague of my fathers fell out of his car in a very low speed intersection prang. So my RP had a belt from the early 1960s
(not relevant, but when belts first appeared here adverts often included a photo of a Citroen 15 which hit a pole and broke in two held together only by the seat belt. The driver survived!!)