26th August 2004, 12:58 PM
Wearing seatbelts is the law not only because the government chooses wearing seatbelts to be a law, it's because they save your life. I'm barely 16, and I've already been in two roll-overs (neither time I was the driver, both times it was an SUV at night on a gravel road, and both times the SUV was damaged beyond any repair) and had I not been wearing my seatbelt, I'm not sure what position I'd be in. A wheelchair or ashes, most likely. The worst injury I sustained from the rollovers was a minor concussion from a big-ass speaker that came from the back and hit me on the head. I don't see how anybody can be against something so simple that'll keep you from dying. Of course, I guess that nobody's really making you wear a seatbelt. You can always live life on the edge and not wear one. That is, of course, if you don't mind paying fines and getting demerits if you get caught.