Helmet Laws and Seat Belt Laws

[Motokid]

*bump*


bringing this thread to light for Robert...and maybe leckert....all the newbie's in the last few months...

join in and tell me what you think of helmet laws for motrcycles riders and seatbelt laws for automobiles....have a blast...

 

[Robert]

Thanks, motokid. I'll look it over later when I have more time. I have to be hitting the road in a few...

 

[Robert]

so about bicycle helmets on kids, tickets for those without...no seat belts for kids on buses, and tickets for people without seat belts fastened in cars....anybody know if any of those things are really laws that ever get inforced...

I know until recently, seat belt laws in Virginia were secondary laws. That has been changed so that seat belt laws are now primary laws. I still don’t know anybody who has ever been ticketed for now wearing. That’s saying a lot considering I actually know a woman that got a ticket for having something hanging from her rear-view mirror.

 

[Robert]

So we've got plenty of laws already on the books designed to help protect people from themselves, yet for some strange reason they do not get inforced....hmmmmm

I'd say there's plenty more kids riding in school buses, millions and millions of miles traveled every month probably, and none of those kids is wearing a seat belt (and have you seen the standard issue bus driver in many states???), yet for some reason the general public is way more passionate about making sure Spike and Killer in "The Hell's Angels" are wearing a helmet.

Strange priorities from where I sit.

I'm not happy about school buses not having belts. Experts say that school buses are safe and don't require belts, I say the experts have never seen the way school buses are driven in Washington DC. Glad my kids never had to ride in those busses.

 

[Robert]

By the way, Motokid, you do the devils advocate very well.

I’m a big believer in seat belts and helmet use. I’d like to speak against laws that regulate these things, but I can’t in good conscience. Far too many people have already been injured or worse on our highways. Hell, I see accidents almost everyday on my commute to work. The problem is that it’s rare that and injury or death affects only the person involved in the accident. Kids lose parents everyday. I’m sure my car insurance, health insurance, and life insurance are all higher because people do stupid things, so nobody can tell me that what happened to that person doesn’t affect me, because it does in more ways then I care to count. In fact, I was watching the news the other day, and they were talking about the huge increase in deaths in Florida since they repealed their helmet laws. I wish I could remember the numbers, but I can’t. People need to be protected. If not from themselves, then certainly from the jackasses they share the road with that drive like they couldn’t care less the way they risk the safety of other by the way they operate their vehicle.