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NEWS: Comedian/Voice Actor Yakkun Sakurazuka/Yasuo Saitou Passes Away

octopodpie wrote:

This sounds awful. I wonder if their seatbelts failed or if there are similar seatbelt laws in Japan like that have in the U.S.?

I've been told that in Japan they require people to wear seat belts but from what I've seen, not everyone does. Traffic rules seem to be very loosely enforced over here. People run reds ALL the time. One time there were TWO police cars, one each on a different side of the intersection and they didn't do a thing when a couple cars ran a red. The car even turned into the lane adjacent to the police car.......... I think you can tell how annoyed I am by this. I bike across this intersection every day and there are always at least 2-4 cars who run the red. ALWAYS. My record is 6 cars. It's crazy!

And don't get me started with how drivers don't know how to react when an emergency vehicle needs to get by. It takes them at least half a minute to let the ambulance go. The first cars always ignore it. -_-

I don't drive so I don't know the rules, but basically when you hear an ambulance coming, the cars are OMGOMGOMG and keep going on their merry way for like half a minute, then finally some people get the idea and try to get out of the way to let it pass. Ambulances in Japanese, btw, are VERY slow. They're not like in the U.S. where they're quickly trying to get where they're going. They politely ask over the loud speaker for people to please move.

You cannot turn right on red in Japan. They drive on the left side. From what I've see, you can't turn left on red either.

Watch how kids in the car are treated.

enurtsol wrote:

Watch how kids in the car are treated.

May I ask how, enurtsol??

mdo7 wrote:

enurtsol wrote: Watch how kids in the car are treated. May I ask how, enurtsol??

Here, read a couple:

Daddy-san (part 5): Car Safety – the state of child seat use in Japan

How much attention do you think drivers in Japan pay to child safety seats or making sure their kids wear seat belts when they are in cars?

Apparently there is a clause in the Japanese seatbelt laws that states that obese people are exempt from wearing a seatbelt and hence there is no need for such a seatbelt extension in Japan

They can wear one of these T-shirts:

I know there's a small matter of the seatbelt stuff and all, but this is a serious topic of a person that passed away of an accident not too long ago, lets not go overboard, please. >_>

@mdo7
Alright, I'll agree on your comment, and yes, the laws there for the belts here should really be enforced there. >_>