Well heck, ya can't arrest 48 million people. Amnesty now!
The lesson of seat belts saving lives is very real to me. My older brother lost control while driving and flipped the car rolling 3 times and sliding 300 feet in a drainage ditch coming to rest upside down. He and three passengers walked away from this crash with no more than minor cuts because they all were wearing seat belts. Note this was in 1957 when seat belts were a rarity and airbags and other crash protective technologies were unknown. My father, a physician, insisted all our cars have seat belts and we were to wear them at all times.
We need to find those 48 million who refuse to buckle up and appoint them to office. At least they understand freedom and rugged individualism, unlike these nanny statist control freaks that run most of the states now.
58 percent of those killed who were not wearing a seat belt crashed along rural roads. _in crashes involving pickup trucks, about seven in 10 people who died were unbelted. _more than six in 10 people age 8-44 who were killed inside a passenger vehicle were not buckled up.
A friend of ours lost her 17 years old Nephew just this way. Dry payment, no traffic, good asphalt road. Lost control and rolled over. Not buckled up. But how does one argue with people who believe in magic?
This story is wrong. I'm a young man living in 'rural America' I Don't buckle up, but I don't drive a truck. I have a new Mustang =).
According to the NHTSA, the average medical cost of collision related injuries is 55 percent higher for unbelted motorists.
85% of those collision related medical bills are paid for by someone else. Other people's taxes, or other people's insurance premiums.
So long as this is the case, it is a lesser infringement of rights to make you buckle up than it is to make me pay for it.
As long as I don't have to pay for someone's medical care via taxes or higher insurance I'm all for the law of the jungle when it comes to seatbelts.
Me, I wear mine because I prefer to be strapped into the car, I'd put a 4 point harness in if my seats would accomodate it, I don't like sliding around when driving fast.