I always wear my seatbelt as does everyone else in my car. What I actually think is great is that kids are trained now to wear seatbelts to the point that if you forget they get on to you as my nieces have done to me a couple times.
Anyway I also feel that it should be required by law. My reasoning is because if I cause and accident with another car and the driver wasn't wearing a seatbelt and dies I could be in a lot of trouble. Now I admit I caused the accident but its very much possible that if the person had been wearing a seatbelt they may have lived. Now on top of the guilt I am going to feel for killing someone else I could also have lawsuits as well as other penalities possibly jailtime. All for killing someone that may not have died. Now I know this is all what if and sure if there was a lawsuit you could argue that the jury/judge should take into consideration the seatbelt thing but they may not. And sure I caused the accident but it may not necessarily be because of something stupid, like drinking and driving or speeding or looking in the floorboard for a cell phone or what not. I honestly do think that seatbelt protect more than just the person wearing them and for this reason I'm all for it being required by law.
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Courtney |