Seat Belt laws in the US

[blpurdom]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Rachel Bray" <bray.262 at o...> wrote:
> It is not a National law for seat belts.  It's state-by-
> state.  Ohio has a seat belt law.  And I think the only 
> state that doesn't have a seat belt law is New 
> Hampshire.....but I could be wrong.
 
Well, that certainly puts the state motto (which appears on the 
license plates) in a new and even more disturbing light.  The NH 
state motto is "Live Free or Die."  I hate to wonder what their 
traffic accident fatality stats are...

We don't own a car, but whenever I get into someone else's, I buckle 
up and I make the kids buckle up.  I have to be very careful of cars 
with passenger-side airbags, though, since I'm just under 5'4" and 
for women my size and for children and babies in car seats, these 
air-bags deploying have sometimes resulted in fatalities ( from 
broken necks).  I don't know why they can't design them to inflate 
less violently, but if there is a passenger-side airbag, I'm happy 
to sit in the back seat...

So glad you're all right, Rachel!  It WOULD be good for there to be 
a national seat-belt law, but I'm not sure that the Constitution 
makes it possible.  The lawyers on the list will have to weigh in on 
that; my memory about the jurisdiction is faulty...

--Barb

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