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“Do seat belts save lives? ... Throughout the years there has been a lot of controversy over the legitimacy of seat belt laws. The argument against seat belt laws are that they infringe on our freedoms; however, the cost of not wearing a seat belt far out weighs a little intrusion on our freedoms. The argument in favor of seat beat laws demonstrates that each of us are burdened financially when people don’t buckle up.
"States that have weak seat belt laws . ... have sharply lower seat belt use rates and unfortunately sharply higher fatalities in car crashes," Chuck Hurley of the Transportation Safety Group of the National Safety Council told CBS Radio News (CBS, para. ... Forty-nine states and the District of Columbia have mandatory safety belt laws (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, para. ... Twenty states and the District of Columbia have primary seat belt laws, meaning police may stop vehicles solely for seat belt law violations (CBS, para. ... According to the study released by the National Safety Council, states that have enacted primary laws since 1995 experienced a 15 percent increase in belt use (CBS, para. ... In the twenty nine other states, police can issues tickets for failure to wear a seat belt only after they stop a motorist for another violation (CBS, para.
Approximate Word count = 1057
Approximate Pages = 4.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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