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Kai Eiselein, editor wrote:
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<div><span class="526115520-20112006">I believe that all persons
under the age of 18 should be belted, and officers should be able to
pull over a vehicle if they see an unbelted minor.</span></div>
<div><span class="526115520-20112006">Adults, however, should make
their own choices.</span></div>
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<br>
Kai,<br>
<br>
You make good points, but I have to disagree with you here. One of the
reasons you wear a seatbelt, aside from stopping you from being flung
out of the car, is so that you can have the possibility of retaining
control of the car in the event of an accident. It's hard to stop the
car or swerve to avoid something if you are under the dashboard
struggling to get up. Of course, this does no good if you smack
head-on into a telephone pole, but if you careen off some other car, it
would be nice if the jolt left you still able to regain some kind of
control. Thus, someone not wearing their seatbelt can affect me
directly, if I'm in the car that would have been hit if someone had not
still been able to veer out of the way because they were buckled up.
This argument is mainly for the driver, of course, I don't feel
strongly one way or the other about passengers who are of age.<br>
<br>
As one other reason, I'd like to point out that wearing a seatbelt can
help drive home, so to speak, the reality of how dangerous driving can
become. I swear, most people think they are in a video game and that
if they hit something they can stick their arm out and stop
themselves. I like the idea of showing gruesome images as a deterrant,
but perhaps we should also make them calculate the inertia involved and
show them what those numbers can mean by showing them the results of
crashes at various levels of force.<br>
<br>
Paul<br>
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