make back seats to raise up to the height level requirments? I wonder what excuse state lawmakers will use if someone had their back seat taken out and lifted. Washington state law is 8 years old or 4' 9" and child must be over 13 to ride in front seat. Most back seats only have 3 seat belts which makes it impossible for my neighbor to pick up his 5 kids from school at the same time. Yet it is ok for a kid to ride in a truck bed. Makes me wonder if lawmakers are concerned about safety or more ways to increase revenue. Some people believe the "underdeveloped stomach muscle" excuse they are using. I don't. I was was in a serious car accident when I was a kid and the seat belt did not do any damage to my stomach musles. Neither did getting kicked in the stomach by a horse or hanging upside down in a ferris wheel with the belt digging into my stomach for 20 minutes until they fixed it. Hogwash to the lawmakers....
2007-06-11 11:37:36 · 4 answers · asked by skycat 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Seat belts save lives. Statistics do not show that child booster seats or car seats for kids over 6 save lives. Imagine, how many people will have to upgrade their cars to vans and SUV's just to be sure the family members under 13 are in the back. Cars are not made to stuff 4 or more car seats in the back seat. If lawmakers were so concerned over safety, they need to look at the statistics for crashes involving the little gas saver vehicles. That will never happen because our laws are dictated by corporations and then the insurance industry. Laws are not dictated over concern for the average taxpaying citizen.
2007-06-11 12:10:41 · update #1
Would you call the child restraint laws stupid if they saved the life of one of his children??
I'm sorry.. but in this case.. he need's to get a bigger vehicle.. or come up with some other way to transport them to and from school....
I believe in MOST states it is illegal for ANYONE to ride in the bed of a truck today.. it is here...
2007-06-11 11:50:15 · answer #1 · answered by gin_in_mi 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The stupidity of child restraint laws shows itself no better than in those states that require seat belts for virtually every kind of motor vehicle EXCEPT a school bus. Idiot lawmakers will wait until there's a rash of school bus fatalities, then rush a new law into place without thinking about the economic consequences of their insipid actions.
The only economic consequences they seem to have an interest in are those of corporate profits. They will simply expect the average taxpayer to pick up whatever extra costs are involved, and their decisions for such actions will be based on data from insurance companies skewed to 'make their case' with little justifiable evidence. -RKO- 06/11/07
2007-06-11 12:17:52 · answer #2 · answered by -RKO- 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's "due" to the child restraint laws.
2007-06-11 12:07:19 · answer #3 · answered by wyllow 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That horse must have kicked you in the head while they were at it.
2007-06-11 11:45:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋