I've heard that seatbelts have caused lots of injuries. I'm writing a paper about why seatbelt laws are wrong and I was wondering if there's any statistics on a website about the amount of injuries that were caused by seatbelts? Thanks!!!!
2007-02-26 12:55:18 · 8 answers · asked by sims_are_cool 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
Sure they cause injuries. But they save a lot more lives. Try http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/
I would write the paper in favor of seat belt laws.
I was a volunteer ETT for awhile and my very first call was a non-belted driver. I still remember the sight when I met the ambulance at the hospital and the rear doors opened. And I recall the patient's vacant eyes staring up at me and the doctor yelling at me because I wouldn't stop compressions when he called it in the ER. I later went to the station to help clean up the ambulance. The blood was still dripping off the rear bumper.
Wear the belt.
2007-02-26 13:03:07 · answer #1 · answered by AK 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Its true that seat belts can cause injury in some cases. However in about most colisions where seat belts were needed, they work. The other times where they didn't work they were not used properly, there has usually been a malfunction with the mecinism, or the seat belts were not designed around that type of accident. Seat belts save lives, and sometimes they take lives, but they save more then they take. Way more. Even with air bags, if a seat belt is not worn, or not worn properly, serious injury can occure. Seat belts are just one step in safty in cars now a days, seat belts are only a restraint in an colision, with air bags, side curtin air bags, and in some cases, roof installed air bags, Air bags only work if seat belts are used. In some cases seats belts take lives, but you also have to ask , how were they being used.
In all the cars I have owned (all pre 1989) I have never had an air bag. I tell all my passengers who don't want to wear a seat belt, that I will bungy cord them to my front bumper if they don't, I dont' want to deal with a loss of a friend if it coudl have been prevented, I've been down that road before, and it hurt too bad to repeat. The rule is with my vehicles are: You smoke, You walk. You don't wear your seat belt, You walk. You piss me off, You walk. So far, no complaints.
2007-02-26 13:04:28 · answer #2 · answered by gregthomasparke 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Over my career as a paramedic, I saw a significant decrease in injuries & mortalities in serious wrecks when belts were in use.
Many times, two kids would be tossed out of the car & be killed, while the one that wore a belt walked away.
As for seat belt laws... Why should society have to pay for the injuries that people could have easily prevented?
2007-02-26 13:02:51 · answer #3 · answered by ckm1956 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i wouldnt go that route, seatbelts clearly prevent more injuries than they cause. nobody is gonna listen to you talk about a seatbelt being dangerous. you should right about how it should be the drivers option in a free country to wear a seatbelt or not.
2007-02-26 12:59:35 · answer #4 · answered by paranoidandroid581 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
my econ professor made the important point that when seatbelt laws were instated people began to drive more recklessly because they felt they were safer. i don't have any statistics, but you could incorporate this fact into your essay.
2007-02-26 13:04:03 · answer #5 · answered by chi 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People have there own chose but I gust wear them because I don't want to have to pay $150 dollars a ticket.
2007-02-26 13:00:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
look under seat belt laws.com
2007-02-26 13:04:44 · answer #7 · answered by tweed801 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
injuries are treatable, death is permanent. Ask any race car driver why they love their seat belts and would have to be complete morons not to wear them.
If you are leaning towards the death of Dale Earnhart, Sr. fpr a story line ou should know that he did not follow the manufacturer's instructions on installing them and it resulted in the compromise that caused his death.
If you don't want to wear one, save someone else the torture of feeling responsible for your death and buy a gun instead.
Seat belts were first invented by George Cayley in the 1800s. They were introduced in aircraft for the first time in 1913, by Adolphe Pegoud, who became the first man to fly a plane upside-down. However, seat belts did not become common on aircraft until the 1930s.
The automotive seat belt was introduced in the United States by Kenneth Ligon and his brother, Bob Ligon, who patented the quick release seat belt.[citation needed]
The AutoCrat Safety Belt, was the first two-point seat belt installed as original equipment in the United States by Ford in its 1956 model year. Robert McNamara was the man behind a whole set of safety measures introduced by Ford that year.
Australia was the first country to make usage of seat belts compulsory in vehicles. However, they were not required by law in the United States on passenger vehicles until the 1968 model year.
The first seat belt to be included as standard in mass-produced vehicles was on the 1959 Volvo Amazon. It was Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin who patented the modern three-point belt design and gave it to Volvo.
The issue of seat belt legislation has been a source of some controversy. Hospital based studies [citation needed] of car accident victims, experiments using both crash test dummies and actual human cadavers have indicated that wearing seat belts should provide a reduced risk of death and injury in many types of car crash. This has led many countries to adopt mandatory seat belt wearing laws. It is generally accepted that, in comparing like-for-like accidents, a vehicle occupant wearing a properly fitted seat belt has a significantly lower chance of death or serious injury.
The effects of such laws are disputed, stemming from the observed fact that no country is able to demonstrate a reduction in road fatalities due to passage of a seat belt law, though deaths have in some cases been migrated from drivers to other road users. This has influenced the development of risk compensation theory, which says that drivers adjust their behaviour in response to the increased sense of personal safety wearing a seat belt provides. In one trial [citation needed] habitual wearers and non-wearers were asked to drive round a course a number of times under the pretence of testing different seat belt materials for comfort. It was found that non-wearers drove consistently faster when belted than when unbelted. Similarly, a study of habitual non-seatbelt wearers driving in freeway conditions found evidence that they had adapted to seatbelt use by adopting higher driving speeds and closer following distances[1] (similar responses have been shown in respect of anti-lock braking system and, more recently, airbags). It is also possible that the types of injury modelled in the trials were only a subset of potential serious injuries — for example, oblique impacts may produce twisting forces on the head leading to diffuse axonal injury, a particularly serious type of brain injury.
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.
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2007-02-26 13:08:09 · answer #8 · answered by cubcowboysgirl 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋