I agree. seat belt usage should be up to the driver not some stupid law!!
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19 years ago
I agree. seat belt usage should be up to the driver not some stupid law!!
I realize this string is old, but... I agree, you should have the choice, but along with the choice should be a mandatory do not resuscitate order, same for helmets on motorcycles. Why should the tax payers be forced to support some idiot too stupid to take any protective measure available when he's crippled for life because he was launched out his own windshield, or rattled around the inside of his vehicle like dice in a cup. Its funny how professional drivers would never consider a slow lap around the track with out a belt with their peers, but joe blow wont wear one when mixing with amateurs whose driving is usually the last thing on their minds, and even when its on their minds they are generally clueless.
1965 was the year american cars got seatbelts.And you can not be legally ticketed in any state for not wearing a seat belt in a car not equiped with them. And I have lived in Florida for the last 22 years, and pulled over a few times in pre 65 vehicles, never a ticket. Don, you should have taken it to court, must have been up on US 301, Waldo perhaps?.
As to installing them in vehicles not equipped, in Germany when they make changes like that they are retro-active. So when I took my 64 Nova over in '76, I had to install seatbelts and four way flashers. I really wasn't a believer until the fall of '77 when I took out 230 feet of guard rail just outside Pirmisens Germany with a 327cid powered 73 Vega GT Wagon and walked away from it, after they got the doors pried open.. It took my dad getting t-boned and not knowing who he was 6 hours to get him to belt up when he drives. Whitelightning
Pirmesens is in the south western part of Germany about 50 klic from Kiasersluatern. about 40 klic from the french border town of Bitch. (pronunced Beesh) I drove truck over there, fuel tanker, and also pulled heavy equipment and armoured vehicles.
From the florida drivers manual:
. Then dont complain about being ticketed when you should not have been, If you wont learn the law and then stand up for your rights you have no one to blame but yourself when they trample your rights.
Its not my choice, death and taxes are no ones choice. But spending my tax dollars to support someone who otherwise would have lead a productive life if he had protected himself is wrong as well. In cases like that I think nature should be allowed to run its course, ie survival of the fittest, someone who gets launched out his own windsheild from not wearing his belt does not fall in the "fittest" catagory. As a former meat wagon driver you should be aware first hand of the damage that happens from not wearing them. Its no ones business untill such time as it starts affecting other people, at that time it becomes other people's business as well.
Whitelightning
actually taxation is legalized extortion... paying money to prevent harm coming to you.
-Bret
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