Let's say that you are the driver of a vehicle with 5 passengers who have been told to buckle their seatbelts. You are in a crash. Two occupants, who have not buckled their seatbelts, are ejected and die. The other two occupants, with seatbelts on, are unhurt.
How does the law handle this today? Given that most states have seatbelt laws, would the deceased people be assumed to have been the cause of their own deaths for not buckling up given that the passengers who did buckle up were unhurt?
I ask this because I have a relative who will not buckle her seatbelt. I wouldn't leave and ultimately, she got out of the car. Her family members are angry about it (I guess keeping their mother safe doesn't count for much). They claim that ultimately, she is responsible for her own safety. I won't change my stance, but I just wanted to find out what you know to be true and what you think.
2007-10-03
15:39:54
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