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Originally Posted by jchief
Been in the fire service for 35 years. Have seen, hell I don't know, probably 1000 or so wrecks. The vast majority of them that were wearing seat belts were better off with them on. Maybe 10 that MAY have been better off not wearing them.
It is not only you that this affects. How about your family? If the odds are better weaing the belt, would you let them NOT wear it. And the other ones that it affects, the 18 year old firefighter that walks up to the first wreck he ever works and the person is ejected and decapitated? Or the EMT that this is the one that gets him thinking about what if the teenager had been wearing the seat belt. Then the insurance rates go up because the people that don't wear seat belts are injured worse and spend more time in the ER.
Just my thoughts.
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Chief, now you are on to something. The gov't tells us we have to do it, but it is the big Insurance companies backing it. Seatbelts increase odds of survival: 1-less payout on life insurance and Less chance of serious injury: 2-reduced medical claims which increases insurance companies bottom line!