I'm only going to the store. The belt restricts my movement. I've never worn it in the past. I feel like I can avoid any crash. Unless you were born with a stone head, you know how and why to buckle you safety belt.
Car crashes are the number one cause of death for young people.
Tragically, teenagers have high death rates - both as drivers and as passengers. And young drivers are one of the groups with the lowest safety belt use rates. Teenagers 16 - 19 years of age constitute 5 percent of all licensed drivers and 3 percent of all vehicles miles traveled, yet teenage drivers are involved in 15 percent of the crashes in which they or other occupants are killed. Teens often express doubts about safety belt effectiveness and have voiced a lack of confidence in the operation of the belt and buckle mechanism. But what is lacking here is the knowledge of how safety belts work, the physics of crashes, safety belt effectiveness, and the realistic notions of crash risk.