Not only is it the law(in Washington) to wear your seat belt if your vehicle
had one, the police can pull you over even if they think you are not wearing
it right. My daughter was given a ticket for incorrect placement of the
shoulder strap of her seatbelt.
Don Simmons
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Langford" <rlangford@attbi.com>
To: "trucks" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] those kids and their hot rods
> > Around here, State of Washington, it's state law.
>
> Nope, WA its only the law if the vehicle came with
> them from the factory, OR they were installed (for whatever
> reason) later on. As odd as it is, if your truck grandfathers
> the law, but someone installed a belt and you get caught not
> using it, you get a ticket.....that doesn't make much sense
> to me, but thats our laws for yah....
>
> > I don't have any grandchildren, but my teenage daughter has objected to
> > driving an old pickup instead of something like that Honda. I need to
> > show her this thread to help her understand why I want her in that old
> > pickup...
>
> This is simular to the theory that SUV's are "safer"...even
> though there has been study after study that says they are not.
> Sure, the truck is more likely to survive a head on collision with
> an equal mass vehicle....but the occupants sure aren't, especially
> in an older vehicle with less than modern safety equipment.
>
> The main point you missed in the example accident, Honda
> prelude has a much smaller mass than the truck, therefore had
> to obsorbed a LOT more energy than your truck did, even with all
> this in consideration the driver of the honda walked away....that
> is because of crumple zones and air bags and belts. If the situation
> was reversed, I doubt you'd be talking right now.
>
> This is the silly part (IMO) about "safety", the reason that
> bigger vehicles are perceived as safer is because of their
> mass, takes more mass to affect them than otherwise. The
> main disadvantage to this setup is anyone of less mass will
> lose against it. So in otherwords, the "perceived" safety
> comes from most likely killing any subcompact that you hit.
> In a perfect world, everyone would drive simularly massed
> vehicles....it would make the roads a lot safer. But that won't
> happen any time soon.
>
> >From safety reports, the safest cars (for both the occupants,
> and the people that collide with the car) is sedans. They
> have higher safety regulations than any SUV or truck, and
> have a little more mass than compacts.
>
> But thats considering it purely from statistics. I ride
> motorcycles mostly....so that shows how much I follow them.
> But I'm not fooling myself on the risks....
>
> Ryan
> rlangford@attbi.com
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