Safety belt bad information — Delaware Permit Test

Safety belt bad information on the Delaware permit test — 5 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.

The rules

A safety belt does not trap you: it takes less than a second to undo, and in a fire or deep water it may keep you from being knocked out, which helps you escape.

A driver knocked out against the window cannot unbuckle anything or swim to the surface.

Even if they do, a safety belt may keep you from being knocked out.

Delaware Driver Manual, p.111

Wear safety belts around town too: over half of all traffic deaths happen within 25 miles of home.

A quick drive to the store is the kind of short trip on which most deaths happen.

Over half of all traffic deaths happen within 25 miles of home.

Delaware Driver Manual, p.111

Your chances of not being killed are much better if you stay inside the vehicle, and safety belts keep you from being thrown out into the path of another vehicle.

A rider thrown out on the road can be hit by the next car even if the crash itself was mild.

Your chances of not being killed in a crash are much better if you stay inside the vehicle.

Delaware Driver Manual, p.111

When a vehicle is struck from the side, everything not fastened down, passengers included, slides toward the point of the crash, not away from it.

An unbelted rider on the far side of the car is thrown into the door that was just hit.

Everything in the vehicle that is not fastened down, including the passengers, will effectively slide toward the point of crash, not away from it.

Delaware Driver Manual, p.111

You cannot brace yourself in a crash: even at 25 mph a head-on crash is like diving off a three-story building onto the sidewalk.

Arms locked against the dash snap long before they can hold back a body at 25 mph.

No one can brace for that.

Delaware Driver Manual, p.112

On the test

How can a safety belt help you in the rare crash where a car catches fire or sinks?

It may keep you from being knocked out. A driver knocked out against the window cannot unbuckle anything or swim to the surface. Delaware Driver Manual, p.111: “Even if they do, a safety belt may keep you from being knocked out.”

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Every rule here is checked against Delaware Driver Manual, published by the Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-05.