How likely are you to die if you get in a rollover crash with no seatbelt?

Question

How likely are you to die if you get in a rollover crash with no seatbelt?

Answer 1

80% chance it will kill you.

Answer 2

odds are not good

In fact few drivers not wearing seat belts in a roll over seldom survive the incident

They are generally thrown half out of the car and it rolls on them

Answer 3

that was one reason Lady Diana died No seat belt

Answer 4

That's impossible to predict - too many variables. Rate of speed? Did the car crash into anything when it rolled? How many times did it roll? Were you thrown out of the car?



You might be killed; you might have broken bones; you might only have bruises; or you might have nothing at all.

I've known of people who rolled their car and weren't wearing a seat belt, and they crawled out of the car that they had totaled, with absolutely no injuries at all. (Except for the injury they knew they were going to suffer to their pocketbook, when they saw what they had done to their car).

Answer 5

Very likely WITH a seat belt (the roof will cave in on a normal car without a roll cage), almost certain without.

Answer 6

about 3:1 odds you will survive.

Answer 7

More likely than not. Without restraints it is one of the most lethal forms of auto accident. A Highway Patrol officer, in giving a safety talk where I work, related that the spookiest thing he would see is a car idling by the side of the road with doors open. He would have to look around to find the body of the driver.



According to the source, "Completely ejected occupants make up half of all fatalities resulting from rollover crashes. Compared to occupants who remain in the vehicle, the risk of serious injury is increased by a factor of 20 and the risk of fatality is increased by a factor of 91 in occupants who are completely ejected during a rollover crash. The influence of ejection on injury and fatality risk in rollover crashes dwarfs the effects of all other factors."

"In order to remain inside a rolling vehicle, an occupant must follow a curving path. Newton’s first law of motion dictates that centripetal force is required to make an object follow a curving path. For an occupant in a rolling vehicle, centripetal force can be provided by the seatbelt and/or various structures on the vehicle’s perimeter, such as the door, window glass, pillars, roof rail, or roof. If an occupant is not belted, the vehicle perimeter is often unable to apply sufficiently large centripetal forces to the occupant, and the occupant passes through a window opening and achieves free flight."



Farther down it indicates the risk of ejection, if unbelted, is about 10 to 20% if the vehicle rolls once, 10 to 60% if it rolls twice, and 80% if it rolls more than twice.

Answer 8

What USUALLY happens is, you're thrown out of the car and it rolls over you, making survival most unlikely.

Answer 9

for a sober person, it's quite likely if he/she is not using the safety belt

Answer 10

Very likely.



Imagine bouncing off the surfaces inside of the car while your bones and organs are mashed into a homogenous paste of pain.

Answer 11

Very likely. In a rollover you'd be thrown around like a rag doll.

Answer 12

I came out with just a couple of cuts and bruises.