I am all for mandatory seat belt use. After a while it is just a habit.
I have several friends who never wear a seat belt and when they get in my vehicle I tell them to buckle up.
Too many times when we read about fatal accidents it is because the occupants were not wearing seat belts and were ejected from the vehicle. When you get thrown out of a moving vehicle head first your head usually becomes the the object that stops your motion when it hits something.
As the trooper in the article said, everyone who is a friend or family member of the person killed in the accident is also a victim.
We also pay higher insurance rates to cover the medical issues of those un-belted accident "victims". A fatal accident or an accident with serious injuries affects a lot more people than just the person who doesn't wear a seat belt.
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