Why helmet /seat belt mandatory? Driver should have full choice to decide his own safety. Why Dadagiri by Govt

Question

Driver is fixed in case of fire etc. in car. If he is open, he can move as per need.

Answer 1

Most modern cars are designed on the basis that the occupants are wearing their seat belts. Without them there can be a danger from airbags.

Your arguments about being able to move better after an accident without a seatbelt make no sense. If you are flung from the vehicle you will probably already be dead. If you fly forwards at 3-5G into an exploding airbag you will again most likely be dead or unconscious.

Studies have clearly shown that seatbelts are safer.

The government often make decisions to protect people. This is why they impose a speed limit and require people to take certain safety precautions when driving. In some countries there is some form of socialized medicine. This means that the more seriously someone is injured in a vehicular accident the more it will cost to save their life. This cost is not always met by the individual who is not wearing their seatbelt but by others.

Answer 2

The results of a severe accident will be worse if you choose not to wear a helmet or a safety belt. Other persons but you would have to pay the differences, if perhaps you'll be in a wheelchair for the rest of your life because you didn't wear a safety belt.
In case of fire the belt can always be opened quickly. Far higher is the danger that the driver can not open the doors, when after a crash a fire starts.

Answer 3

No one can say when will a accident will occur and the driver will die or have some fatal injuries. You are right that driver should have full choice of his own safety, but if the Govt. didn't insist on wearing helmet /seat belt, nobody will follow the rules and accidents will occur more frequently. As you said that if driver is fixed in a fire accident - it occurs rarely. For one cause like this we cannot leave the frequent chances of occuring accidents due to lack of helmet /seat belt.

Answer 4

1.Please think that in your home everyone is coming and going on their own timing and he does what ever he wants. will you allow this. If No will you call dadagiri by your parents.?

2.It is the duty of the govt to protect the citizens of country. Think as if you are the PM of the country and lot of accidents are happening what action you will take to stop the danger. You will first take the preventive measures only.

3.Taking a proactive step is to regulate the traffic and follow the lane discipline and maintaining the good roads. Tell me how many times you have followed the traffic rules.

4.Hope this will answer you question right now.

Answer 5

Been talkin to some Libertarians, eh? ;-) Yes I think it should be mandatory, if not for your own good than for the good of the state. The fiscal consequences of losing a productive member of society over something so trivial as taking 3 seconds to put on a seat belt outweighs the individual's right to be neglegent not to mention the cost to clean your brains off the street or (God willing) the increased medical expense should you live. ETA: I'm doing well thanks. I didn't mean to disparage all Libertarians. Just the "true believers", those college kids at coffee shops who have read one book by Ayn Rand and swear that they've had some kind of epiphany. I used to to be one of those punk college kids who saw the light and found libertarianism, until I thought about specific issues a little more critically. Slowly I learned that Libertarianism might sound great on paper but its hopelessly naive with respect to reality. Seatbelts are a great example. One would think "Wow. The government really is just bossing me around with laws that if broken hurt nobody but myself! NANNY STATE NANNY STATE!!!" It's not until you do the math and see that loss of productivity hurts the market as a whole, the increase in social services for your dependents also puts a financial burden on the people, as well as the coroners and doctors which must get involved should an accident occur. How've you been?

Answer 6

Peculiar question.

Govt decides to make the roads safer for all.

Helmets and seat belts ensure fatalities and injuries are kept to a mimimum, other wise the health system would be in a much worse state than it is.

I'm glad the rules are there, especially when I see all the nutty driver on the road, and our is a country where strict road rules are enforced.

What is Dadagiri?

Answer 7

dadagiri is required in India . Indian people can not obey without a Danda.

anyway helmets are mandatory so that people like you dont waste other's time and bother unnecessary the Govt. , when you lay in a wreck.

hard but plz digest as truth is never sweet.

Answer 8

Police took up this drive to safeguard lives of two-wheeler riders, whose lives are lost mostly due to head injuries.

Percentage of helmet rule compliance varied in different parts — 70 per cent in Secunderabad and 40 per cent in the old city — Mr. Khan said that helmet rule would also be implemented seriously. As against 98 deaths due to head injuries out of the 134 fatal accidents involving two-wheeler riders in 2004, 61 succumbed to their head injuries out of the 117 fatal accidents involving two-wheeler riders in 2005.

"This indicates helmet wearing helps in reducing accidents," he observed.

Answer 9

seat belts are 50/50 crap shoots some folks actually beleive that they can legislate every aspect of life under the guise of safety I dont need protected from me what gets me is I get aticket for no seat belt or helmet but I put my 6yr old on a big bus every morrning without belt or helmet one for the children but that sort of makes scense 5 yr olds dont pay taxes ( fight the power ) da man is down on me dog down on me

Answer 10

its more likely you'll become a large missile to hit others(mostly those in your own car) and do more damage to others than the crash alone would. Although i can understand where you're coming from to some extent as i have been in a crash where a seatbelt might have made things worse but its usually the other way around.