The statistics on seat belt use are clear, which is why so many states have the laws. Seat belts save so many more lives plus so many life-altering injuries that there is no doubt it is safer to wear one.
Parents who don’t wear them while buckling their kids in are parents raising kids who won’t wear seatbelts as adults. Good going, Mom and Dad.
As to the dangers people have referred to such as submersion and car fires, the statistics are clear there too: that occurs only 1% of the time. So 1% seatbelt is a problem and 99% seatbelt is a great idea. What makes sense?
I say ticket! I feel the same way about that I do about helmet laws. Unless people sign a remove from life support if ever I am in an accident and in a vegetative state, then we all pay for their stupidity, which hardly seems reasonable.
“If 15 percent of Minnesota drivers buckled their seat belts as required, 200 lives could be saved and 400 would not suffer life-changing injuries.”
”COLLISIONS: Seat belts keep drivers and passengers from being ejected through windows or doors. This is important because your chances of being killed are five times greater if you are thrown from the vehicle.
BURNING OR SUBMISSION: Fewer than 1 per cent of all injury-producing accidents involve fire or submersion. Even in such cases, the chances of remaining conscious in order to free youeself and escape from the vehicle are greatly increased if you are wearing a seat belt.”