Buckle Up!
The main ideas I will be addressing in this paper are safety, civil liberties, and financial issues of seat belt laws. I am a strong supporter of wearing seatbelts. I think that seat belts save lives but to make it a law does conflict with civil liberties. Do the lives seatbelt save out weight the freedoms it takes? I do not believe you can switch human rights for human life.
“Primary enforcement seat belt laws remain the best way to raise and maintain high seat belt use rates laws increase the use of seat belts." ( NTSB - Testimony. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.ntsb.gov/Speeches/s090224-b.htm ) Seat belts do save lives. Seatbelts are the number one defense against motor vehicle injuries and fatalities (cite). Unbelted passengers can injure others in the car, not to mention a non belted driver may not be able to have as much control of a car in case of an accident. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that from 1975 through 2007, seat belts saved almost 242,000 lives nationwide. According to NHTSA, had all passenger vehicle occupants over age 4 used seat belts in 2007, an additional 5,000 deaths would have been prevented (NTSB - Testimony. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.ntsb.gov/Speeches/s090224-b.htm). “Failure to wear a seat belt does not cause accidents, nor does it stop one (Brian Tilton N. Sutton, NH April 20, 2009 Testimony
to Senate ... (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.briantilton.com/SeatBeltTestimony.pdf).” If anything, an argument can be made that people who wear seat belts are more likely to speed and tailgate. They have a certain invincibility factor strapped to them. Injuries still do occur from wearing seat belts. "A 1995 NHTSA [Nati...
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3. It's the law, except for cops: Seat belts optional when responding to emergencies, despite risk.
New Haven Register (New Haven, CT) (Sept 21, 2008): pNA.
Source Citation:
Kathryn O'Leary Higgins. "Primary Seat Belt Enforcement Laws Are Beneficial." Opposing Viewpoints: Cars In America. Ed. Roman Espejo. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2010. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. Ivy Tech Indianapolis / Marion County. 27 July 2010
Source Citation:
Kathryn O'Leary Higgins. "Primary Seat Belt Enforcement Laws Are Beneficial." Opposing Viewpoints: Cars In America. Ed. Roman Espejo. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2010. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Gale. Ivy Tech Indianapolis / Marion County. 27 July 2010
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