Quote:You can't just point to traffic fatalities going down and say look seat belts save lives. For starters the way cars are engineered and made today is completely different from 30 years ago. Any one if the features you could say the same thing look we are doing ___ less people are dying!


Secondly when did the qualification factor for legislation become it Saves lives and money? If that's the qualifier we're using then why the fuss over New Yorks big gulp law? Fat people drive up medical cost and who really needs a soft drink bigger than 32oz? It'll save lives if we can get fat people to drink less soft drinks and it'll save us money on the medical system. It's the same argument, nanny laws are nanny laws.

 

To your point wearing seatbelts does not save all lives, but they save the majority.

 

Case and point the family that was killed on the Buckman last week even if they wore seatbelts, the sheer force of impact, or even the fire resulting from the collision would have not have saved them if they were wearing seatbelts. 

 

There are advantages and disadvantages to wearing seatbelts with the advantages outweighing the other. 

 

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