Its your choice if you choose to wear a seat belt or not, so why should the cops fine you for not wearing one. Besides if you fall into a river or your car catches fire, its harder to get out of the car.
2006-08-06 15:35:52 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Commuting
Yes you should wear seatbelts. If you fall in a river without the seatbelt, you would die on impact and not even get a chance to try to get out. Put simply, then: if one is involved in a crash, one is almost always better off wearing a seat belt. However, the probability of being in a crash in the first place may be affected by the fact that the person feels safer, so the overall safety benefit may be offset to some unspecified degree.
2006-08-06 15:40:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's your choice to wear or not to wear seatbelts.
But if you have an accident and get injured because you weren't wearing your seatbelt, your injury becomes a matter of public concern.
The majority of vehicle collisions are not the "high-speed", hig-profile, "car-chase" types that you see on the COPS TV shows. And research has shown overwhelmingly that wearing seatbelts in crashes at speeds up to 50 mph saves lives.
"Imagine running as fast as you can - into a wall. You'd expect to get pretty banged up. Do you think you could stop yourself if the wall suddenly loomed up when you were two feet away from it? This is exactly the situation you face when the front of your car hits something at only 15 miles an hour. The car stops in the first tenth of a second, but you keep on at the same rate you were going in the car until something stops you - the steering wheel, dashboard or windshield - if you're not wearing your safety belt.. Bad enough at 15 miles an hour, but a 30 miles you hit "the wall" four times as hard as you would at 15. Or to put it another way, with the same impact you'd feel as if you fell three stories. A properly worn safety belt keeps that second collision - the human collision - from happening."
2006-08-06 22:55:48 · answer #2 · answered by Snake Oil 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, adults should be allowed to make choices about their lives. I am writing about this subject because I WASN'T wearing my seat belt. If i was I would have died years ago.
Seat belt laws were passed to protect consumers from insurance company's.
The insurance company's were claiming -quite correctly - that the cost of injuries from unbelted motorists were significantly higher than those from belted motorists.
I just have problem with the inconsistency of it all . If the State is genuinely interested in its motorists well being than motorcycle helmets must be mandatory, SUV's will be illegal and no passenger will be allowed to ride in the back of a pick up truck.
Maybe the reason that the State likes the seat belt law so much is that it gives law enforcement a valid reason to pull you over. HMMMM........
2006-08-07 09:01:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's all well and good, but did you know that if the backseat passengers don't wear their seat belts they can kill the people in the front seat in an accident? If the car impacts and comes to a stop fast enough, unbelted backseat passengers fly forward and crash into the driver and front seat passenger, breaking the necks or even severing the heads of the people in the front seat before flying out the windshield at the same speed the car was going before impact. Taking your own life in your hands is one thing, but deciding to endanger someone else who might be perfectly happy to be alive is something that is illegal for a REASON!
2006-08-06 22:44:00 · answer #4 · answered by Cat Loves Her Sabres 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there shouldn't be a mandatory seat belt law unless there is also going to be a mandatory helmet law, because both would fall under the same kind of reasoning (i.e. cost to insurance firms and charges against other drivers in the event of an accident, etc.) There is no consistency in this, and that really bothers me. The other thing is that it should NOT be a primary offense. If it's going to be a law, you should have to be pulled over for doing something else actually wrong before they can ticket you on the seat belt. They shouldn't be able to just spot you and pull you over for it.
2006-08-06 22:43:05 · answer #5 · answered by Rvn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to admit, I don't like having to wear seatbelts but the darn things have saved my life twice. First time I was a front seat passenger where the driver was sidestruck by a drunken driver. I would have been thrown from the car without the belt and probably killed. The second time, I hit a patch of black ice on a crooked country road and ended up rolling my car. I would have probably broken my neck and back without that darn belt holding me in my seat. I walked away from that one unscathed.
2006-08-06 22:43:52 · answer #6 · answered by livingstonseagull43 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ya know theres a chance you could be killed and you are wearing your seat belt...TRUE STORY A lady I worked with was in a HORRIBLE car accident she wasnt wearin her seat belt..if she had been she would have died her passagners side door wa in her drivers seat she was thrown sine she wasnt wering her seat belt, hey said if she had the door would have went through her...but to the point seat belts should be a choice, and when its ur time its ur time . Yeah seat belts may save lives but so can not weqaring seat belts what if the cars seconds away from exploding>? Seat belt isnt unbuckiling so easy..children should have to tough they are so light
2006-08-06 23:07:17 · answer #7 · answered by Lilmisssassy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they want u to be safe. Studys prove that not only u, but everyone else in the car with u, are 80% more likely to get hurt in a crash. Newton's 2nd law (i think) of gravity. Even though the car stops, u keep going. Look at any crash test video. The seatbelts prevent u from going flying through the windshield. Just wear your seatbelt and make it safer for everyone.
2006-08-06 22:45:38 · answer #8 · answered by Neel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it should not be required as it is now. I do not wear a seat belt unless I am about to go through a road block and then it comes right off after passing through. I believe it is my truck and my life and should be my decision whether to wear a seat belt or not.
2006-08-06 22:44:08 · answer #9 · answered by rockydriver22 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally disagree with the idea of governmental mandates about things that should be personal choices. I wear a seat belt. I resent the "nanny state" government telling me that I have to wear a seat belt.
Adults should have the choice to take whatever risks they deem acceptable. The USA was based on freedom. We should have the freedom to take a risk!
2006-08-06 22:50:37 · answer #10 · answered by fire4511 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋