[No Blue States]

I hate that seat belt law, adults should be able to decide if they want to wear them.

bad cop no donut.

[ActionNewsBill]

I hate that seat belt law, adults should be able to decide if they want to wear them.

The sad part is, she was wearing her seat belt, but the JBT's cited her for not wearing it in the way that the state has decreed to be lawful.

[William Tell]

No Blue States said: "I hate that seat belt law, adults should be able to decide if they want to wear them. "

Like motorcycle helmet laws, seatbelt laws for adults would be unnecessary if the liability laws were modified.

If you negligently crash into someones car and injure them, the liability law needs to specify that you are only liable for the damage which would likely have occurred if the person had a seatbelt fastened. Any additional damage would be the burden of the person who decided to be unbelted.

Similarly, motorcycle riders would be responsible for any head injuries if they failed to wear a helmet.

If, as the law implies, failing to wear a seatbelt is a negligent act, then let the person committing the negligence be responsible for it.

[Indie]

Next thing you know they'll require seatbelts for motorcyclists.

Let's just make everything illegal, then the lawyers will really get rich!
Hold it...they are already. [Just to remind you WHO makes our laws and WHY]

[proudofthesouth]

I'm in complete agreement. Many years ago when I was in an automoble accident my then husband told me later that the ONLY thing the State Trooper was interested in was weather or not I had been wearing my seat belt. He didn't want to know ANYTHING ELSE. And this was long before it became a law in Alabama.

[Publius6961]

I hate that seat belt law, adults should be able to decide if they want to wear them.

That was the "convincing" argument and the promise when seat belts were being debated in the mid-50s...