UNBELTED Passenger in Frontal Car Crash

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Cites rascul · 2021-08 · on “Vaccination Should Be Compulsory”

If you're in the back seat of a car, without a seat belt, in a collision you may turn into a projectile which can potentially injure or even lead to the death of someone in the front seat. [this video]

Cites onion2k · 2021-09 · on “When new seat belt laws drew fire as a violation of personal freedom (2020)”

Seat Belts affect you If you're a passenger in the back of a car, and the car stops suddenly in an accident, you will be launched into the seat in front of you. Drivers have died as the result of a rear passenger crushing them. Even seat belts can affect others. Crash test footage of an unbelted rear passenger - [this video] British safety 'advert' about it - [LINK] (Maybe not for the squeamish..) This is why people really should wear seat belts in taxis and Ubers.

Cites Defletter · 2023-08 · on “When seat belt laws drew fire as a violation of personal freedom”

It's only a violation of personal freedom in the most obtuse sense where anything that dissuades or prevents you from doing anything you want (everybody's so creative) is an infringement on your personal freedoms. There's this saying that, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail; as for Americans, when all you care about is personal freedom, everything looks like an infringement. Something that went largely ignored by the personal freedom crowd during the pandemic is one's right to life. The government is duty-bound to protect your right to life, or at least it should be. And so it's not much of a decision between requiring masks to enter certain spaces versus letting vast