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I’ll be honest and say I’m much more worried about what I’m cooking for dinner tonight than whether my seat belts will fail and I’ll be ejected through the sunroof in a crash.
I’ll be honest and say I’m much more worried about what I’m cooking for dinner tonight than whether my seat belts will fail and I’ll be ejected through the sunroof in a crash.
I don't agree with the negative comments here....I think the OP has something. If you look at the statistics on injuries/deaths that those reports cite, they are certainly nothing to sneeze at.
Anyhow, either way, it doesn't affect me. For number of reasons, (this is only one of them) I've never had a sunroof, don't want one, and, if I can avoid it, will never have a vehicle with one.
Unless your car rolls over and lands on its side (but NOT on its roof), you are more likely to be ejected through your windshield (front collision) or through a side window (side collision) than through your sunroof.
2008 traffic fatalities = 34,017, of which 300 were sunroof related (according to post) = 0.88% 2008 traffic injuries = 1,630,000, of which 14,000 were sunroof related (according to post) = 0.86%
I don't consider those figures to be insignificant. 14,000 is a lot of injuries...particularly if you or I are one of them.
My lack of concern about this stems from the lack of associated seat belt data. If they said hundreds of people were being ejected through sunroofs DESPITE being properly buckled in, I would have some more concern. Perhaps I am being simplistic, but I am having a very hard time believing these folks were wearing their belts. I always wear my seat belt, without exception. My car doesn't move unless all my passengers are buckled in and my kids are properly belted in to their child seats.
I think the issue here is seat belts, not sunroofs.
My lack of concern about this stems from the lack of associated seat belt data. If they said hundreds of people were being ejected through sunroofs DESPITE being properly buckled in, I would have some more concern. Perhaps I am being simplistic, but I am having a very hard time believing these folks were wearing their belts. I always wear my seat belt, without exception. My car doesn't move unless all my passengers are buckled in and my kids are properly belted in to their child seats.
I think the issue here is seat belts, not sunroofs.
Agreed, this looks like not using your seat belt properly causes this problem.
My lack of concern about this stems from the lack of associated seat belt data. If they said hundreds of people were being ejected through sunroofs DESPITE being properly buckled in, I would have some more concern. Perhaps I am being simplistic, but I am having a very hard time believing these folks were wearing their belts. I always wear my seat belt, without exception. My car doesn't move unless all my passengers are buckled in and my kids are properly belted in to their child seats.
I think the issue here is seat belts, not sunroofs.
Thats why I was asking about them doing the jack in the box its a "trick" drifters, and street racers do were they put the car on cruise control sit on the roof halfway out of the sunroof and steer with there feet.
My ex wife was thrown through the unzipped back window of my MG back in the day. Flipped it on it's side, wedged between two trees. I was young & indestructible & it was a snow covered road. Despite all of that effort on my part, unfortunately, she only had minor back injuries.
And she didn't leave you after that happened? You're a lucky guy in more ways than one.
Seriously, though, I'm a firm believer that everybody deserves one significant mistake being the wheel in the learning process, but they have to learn from it, and not repeat it. I myself made one error on a road with slick, hard-packed snow, when I was 17, and, yes, learned form it....fortunately, the accident wasn't too serious, and neither me and my friend were injured (we had seat belts on...that was before the days of harnesses).
My ex wife was thrown through the unzipped back window of my MG back in the day. Flipped it on it's side, wedged between two trees. I was young & indestructible & it was a snow covered road. Despite all of that effort on my part, unfortunately, she only had minor back injuries.
Not that it's any of my buisness, but, just out of curiosity, is that why you two broke up? You don't have to answer if it's private.
Seriously, though, I'm a firm believer that everyone deserves one significant mistake being the wheel in the learning process (none of us are perfect), but they have to learn from it, and not repeat it. I myself made a error on a road with slick, hard-packed snow, when I was 17, and, yes, learned form it....fortunately, the accident wasn't too serious, and neither me and my friend were injured (we had seat belts on...that was before the days of harnesses).
I myself made a error on a road with slick, hard-packed snow, when I was 17, and, yes, learned form it....fortunately, the accident wasn't too serious, and neither me and my friend were injured (we had seat belts on...that was before the days of harnesses).
Seriously, you were wearing seat belts in the '60's? It took my friends and me a few years after the Federal mandate to finally buckle up. That was the late '80's!
03-28-18, 12:57 PM
Is Your Sunroof Safe?
You're a lucky guy in more ways than one. 
