Actually it had to do with illegally registered vehicles, no licenses or illegal ones, and just plain tiredness of the carnage on the roads in this county caused by the illegals. At least one person I know who went through expected to get pulled over because he didn't have his seat belt on, but was just reminded to put it on and sent on his way.
But I do understand and accept your point. Interesting statistic I read in this morning's weekly paper:
According to The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, 922 persons were killed in 837 motor vehicle related crashes in 2004. Of those, 421 persons were unrestrained.
Yet the next paragraph states:
"It can't be over emphasized: Safety belts and child safety seats save lives," says Capt. J. Thomas Martin. "Wearing a safety belt triples your chance of surviving a crash.
My math, which was never my strong suit, I admit, tells me that 421 out of 922, more people died WEARING seatbelts than not wearing them.
Nothing wrong with your math. With seatbelts (922-421)/922 = 54% fatalities WITH seatbelts and 421/922 = 46% fatalities without seatbelts. If wearing seatbelts TRIPLED your chances of surviving, then you'd expect 75% of the fatalities not to be wearing seatbelts, not 46%
Governments lie - all the time about everything