We’ve written about the importance of wearing seatbelts before, especially rear seatbelts, but there are still many people who still ignore buckling up in their cars, whether they are seated at the front or back. Any amount of airbags won’t you do you any good if you don’t have your seatbelts on in the first place.
These days, people have all kinds of ideas to increase awareness with social media – something like the ice bucket challenge and today we discovered a viral video campaign of Romanian origin that addresses the issue of wearing seatbelts.
The campaign aims wants to start a trend where ladies can “make wearing seatbelts hard to ignore” (campaign slogan) by posting photos of themselves wearing seatbelts with the hashtag #seatbeltb00bing (that’s with zeros) on social media, in hope that this campaign will drill the message home to motorists better than fines and seatbelt warning signs. The campaign also has a Facebook fan page.
Given the mechanics of the campaign, it obviously targets men specifically, but there’s a reason for this – according to Romanian statistics, an average of three times more men than women lose their lives in car crashes because of reasons like not wearing seatbelts.
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I don’t understand the language but the advertisment certainly caught my atttention!
I want to grow up to be a seatbelt
hey guys, there are also english subs available in the cc button of the youtube video. (not that it would change the message in any essential way, because boobs).
anyway, girls everywhere should post to instagram with #seatbeltb00bing.
thanks for supporting the campaign!
most women has a pairs of “airbag” protecting them(naturally)… but not that “red grape” or something else, sorry too small cant see clearly… lol
:p
nice..
I clicked ‘Play’ because there is boobs in the video thumbnail.
I think in Malaysia videos like this one should be on TV all the time instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Qhmdk4VNs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SEy_FCJlpk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxGZnansyIo
Forcing the rear passenger to wear seatbelts should be important to the people sitting in front. If the ones in front don’t wear them, they only kill themselves. The ones behind also kill the people sitting in front.
An organisation doing crash tests has tested that at speeds of 30 km/h not wearing a seatbelt can be deadly. In the case of the person sitting at the back not wearing the seatbelt it is for him and perhaps the one in front of him (the higher the speed, the more likely it is of course).
Good points, kad. Thumbs up.
Jokes aside, the awareness of wearing rear seat belts in Malaysia is extremely low. There are many crashes where the unsecured passangers are thrown out of the vehicles.
Another issue is how to secure ‘additional passangers’, especailly those with large families.
So….where’s the seatbelt??? :p
Im here for the b00b not seatbelts
I didn’t watch the video and I don’t bother putting the seatbelt, because I am a gay.
b00bbelt…