recently i was in a accident in my 98 civic lx and i wanted to know if any of you have been in a bad crash in your civic and felt that the seatbelts did not do a very good job of holding you in your seat i feel that it did not because my head came up and hit the roof right around the rear view mirror causeing me to black out thanks

 

i rear ended someone...at about 25mph, wearing my seatbelt....head went into windshield and back...left crack...16 stiches...2000 EX

 

Odd,,, in all my crashes my civic seat beltshave worked ok,, only thing is the first civic i had the airbag didnt work,, and the other.. the air bag flew out on my chest AFTER the crash was over..

 

the bag that came out was it just the bag or like the hole unit

 

hahaha john666....rethink that statement..they didn't work like they should...so i wouldn't say that was ok...i'd say YOU were ok, and YOU got luck

 

It was the bag(big pillow with a oder you wont forget),, pretty horrible.. the seat belt held me back from boucing my head off the steering wheel, but i guess i was sitting somewhat too close, the bag came out gave me a sucker punch to the stomac and broke my cell phone that was on my belt hostler on my belt.. Not to mention the crash was basicly over maybe 3 secs earilier,, the time delay was the killer.

O sry i was eatting so u kno how that goes

 

yes you do not forget the smell

 

wow..... they have a smell? like a powder or something? can you discribe maybe?

and...heh.... that sucks about the delay in the airbag, but when you think about it its comical

 

Well, when I totalled my '92 Integra at about 25-30mph, the belts held me back. If you're belts let you hit the windshield, that's a BIG problem. If you're hitting the roof, you must be pretty damn tall.

John666: reasons like that are exactly why I refuse to buy any car with an airbag. I don't trust those things.

 

maybe you didn't have the 1st point properly adjusted? :dunno:

you know, where the seatbelt comes off the wall, and you can raise or lower the point it comes from.....

this thread kinda scares me, tho :ugh: