Summer Driving

Now that the summer driving season has started, Allcar rent a car’s new office in the Bronx has special rates and vehicles for summer time driving as well as for your car rental needs year round. Allcar rent a car offers among the most competitive rates in the Bronx and has many makes and models of cars, minivans, and 15-passenger vans available to rent at our Bronx location at 35 West 170 Street. You can also rent a car, minivan, and 15-passenger van at one of Allcar rent a car’s many other New York-area car rental locations.

The Importance of Wearing a Seatbelt

We at Allcar rent a car care about the safety of the drivers and passengers of the rental cars we operate and wanted to share some safety tips with our Bronx car rentals customers concerning seat belts. Regardless of how much confidence you have in your own driving ability or that of the Bronx rental car driver, you should never skip wearing a seat belt. A seat belt is the most effective method that drivers and passengers of the Bronx car rentals can use to protect themselves from possible injury. Remember, no matter how good or experienced a driver you may be, you cannot control the other drivers on the road. They may be drunk, tired, distracted, or just simply poor drivers.

In a collision, the car you are in can stop in a fraction of a second, but the speed at which the passengers are moving remains unchanged until they are stopped by impact with the steering wheel, the seat in front of them, or the windshield. As an example, if the Bronx rent a car is traveling at 30 mph, the impact the occupants will feel is equivalent to the impact they would feel if they fell three stories. Seat belts help to distribute the collision forces across the passenger's body to reduce the impact on any one body part.

How to Properly Wear Your Seatbelt

When driving or as a passenger in Bronx car rentals, wear your seat belt in the manner for which it was designed. Wear it across your shoulder and lap if you are sitting in any of the front seats of the Bronx rent a car. If you wear only the shoulder belt, you risk sliding down in the seat in a collision and choking on the shoulder belt. If you wear just the lap belt and slide the shoulder belt off your shoulder, you lose the protection the shoulder belt offers by holding your body back from hitting the steering wheel if you are the driver of the Bronx rent a car or the dashboard if you are in the passenger.

Seatbelt Design

The shoulder belts installed by the vehicle manufacturer in all Bronx car rentals, minivans, and 15-passenger vans operated by Allcar rent a car are designed to keep your body in the vehicle in the event of a collision. The last thing you want to happen is to be thrown from the Bronx rent a car as the risks of injury and/or death greatly increases.

The modern-day seat belt installed and found in all Bronx car rentals gives you movement flexibility as the Bronx rent a car moves and drives. There is a device which locks the seat belt in the event the car is involved in a collision.

Although all Bronx car rentals operated by Allcar rent a car feature driver and passenger-side airbags, these air bags alone are not enough to protect your body and the passengers in the car from possible injury. Wearing the seatbelt found in the Bronx rent a car in addition to the air bags, increases the effectiveness by 40%.

Regardless of the weather or the season, it is wise to always wear your seatbelt when driving your Bronx car rentals. Not only should the driver of the Bronx rental car wear their seatbelt, all passengers should.

Check out the Brooklyn car rental All Car Rent a Car location at 1204 610 Warren Street610 Warren St Brooklyn, NY 11217