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Originally Posted by Lou_Dorchen
New Hampshire still doesn't mandate seat belt usage. Just a few years ago it passed their House, but was voted down in their Senate. So I guess it's not just a few crackpots like myself who are against them.
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With all due respect, you just don't get it. Okay, I get that you've acknowledged that seat belts save lives. You just don't want THE MAN to tell you that you have to. Protection of personal freedoms and all that. Yeah, I get it.
We have a seat belt law in Nebraska. It didn't keep my employee from putting himself and others in the hospital a couple of weeks ago, directly caused by his ignorance in observing that law.
He was rushing to work because he was running late. He was driving dangerously. He lost control of his Trailblazer when a car in front of him slammed on the brakes in rush-hour traffic. He went for the shoulder to avoid it, lost control of his vehicle, slammed into the concrete divider and got ejected from his passenger window.
He landed in the third lane of the interstate. His vehicle continued on without him in it, crashing into a total of 5 other cars, one of which was a pickup driven by another company employee, which then flipped upside-down and injured him, also.
This 52 y/o man may not walk again. They had to pin his legs back together. This injury in addition to head trauma, and broken ribs.
This man called me today. He broke down crying over the guilt and stupidity he feels as he was telling me that they are releasing him from the hospital on Friday. He has weeks of physical therapy ahead of him. Lost income. Trouble with the law.
Is that what your freedom represents? This one hits too close to home. I'm reminded of it each day when I walk past his empty cubicle. He told me that the police had said that 90% of all ejections end in death. 90%.
Read about this incident here:
http://www.ketv.com/news/local-news/...z/-/index.html
Personally, I've been in two crashes that would have injured or killed me had I not been belted in. See the "totaled" next to the 2003 Mustang in my signature? Head on from a guy turning left, blinded by the sun. He was belted into his Camry, and both walked away uninjured. I hit him @ 50 MPH. Picture below.
Seat belt laws are good laws. It helps guys like me win in court when guys like you fail to obey a law because you don't know what's good for you.
