life help: Should there be mandatory seat belt laws? - Help.com

Yes. Where I live it is mandatory. I always wear mine anyway, for 12 years I’ve worn it every time I drive. That law is a good thing in my opinion.

when you put it that way yes!!

But i think it should be when i was in high school i never wore a seat belt unless i was in the car with my parents. but then one day one of my best friends died in front of me his blood were all over the pavement. never worn a seat belt that is why he died. that is something no teenager should see. that night really opened my mind up. So since then i have worn my seat belt and i’m happy that i have saved more lives by wearing it!! cause everyone that gets in my car they MUST wear a seat belt!!

We already have that in effect in UK, for a while now, we also have a law that says that children should have car seats and bumper seats until they reach a certian age.
I don’t see why it should not be a law for everywhere to have it as not putting a seat belt on is just pure lazyness, i think its an automatic thing to do when you get in a car anyway

Right Lazy, my kids are 9 and almost 5, they both still use booster seats and belts. They have to be 4′9″ to be able to just use a seatbelt without a booster.

I don’t like being surrounded by glass, goin 60,70,80 mph and crashing without wearing a seatbelt. Seatbelt wearing should be mandatory and enforced throughout everywhere motor vehicles are present.

It’s mandatory in Ct. I work for a large auto insurance company and they lobby the government about this issue to keep injury payouts down and premiums down that way. If it weren’t mandatory, the injury payouts would be significant and thus the premiums would be higher (yikes! as if they aren’t high enough already).

I handle auto injury claims - I can tell you the claims where the person didn’t wear their seatbelt are much worse than when the sb is worn - especially if the airbag deploys….it’s really ugly then.

Natural selection works. We should let it.

yes i think there should be its the LAW….

If someone’s too stupid to wear one, did we really want them breeding anyway?

Cajun wrote:
mitzy please keep your on anyway for the rest of us, your too fine for something to happen to you.

Lol, thanks Cajun!! I will!!

Hmmm.. Cajun, It may be the chosen profession for some, but here in CT most of the ambulance staff, first responders and fire fighters are volunteers and they are unpaid and yet the have a deep sense of community that keeps them going back time and again to help those that are too stupid to wear their seat belts.

A friend of mine is a vol. firefighter / EMT, I never realized this but in a front end impact where the air bag does not deploy, the is serious risk of injury when they are trying to extract the front seat passengers because those airbags could deploy at anytime while they are working on the victims.

As for the bills - the medical field is totally out of control with their billing and they need to be reined in soon.

It’s still cheeper than the costs they would have racked up by being alive and stupid.

That’s what I’m saying.

I must have missed that part of the constitution Cajun, but go right ahead, if that works for you.

Sure it is. :)

No, but they sure take advantage of it.

I live in NEw Zealand and it is compulsory to wear seatbelts. Even to take baby home from hospital you need to have a carseat. Motorbike riders and cyclists have to wear helmets as well. Fines for noncompliance of these rules are increasing.