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But that choice to not wear a seat belt is not DIRECTLY effecting anyone else. It is up to each person to decide things like that. There may have been more fatalities, but how many of those accidents were the fault of NOT HAVING seat belts on? I did not asks you how many of those fatalities could have been prevented with seat belts I asked how many of those accidents that led to the fatalities were caused based on rather or not seat belts were being usws by the parties.Note my use of the word "reasonably".
As for having common sense, good for you. I almost killed someone two days ago who probably thinks the same thing. In a momentary lapse, she didn't check a mirror before exiting a driver's side door right onto a busy road, and if I had been a hair's breadth less alert, I'd have sandwiched her between her door and the front of the heavy vehicle I was driving at the time. It's still pretty fresh in my mind. But I can give you any number of day to day examples from personally experience, without even beginning to dip into my experience as a nurse, where I would have treated quite literally hundreds of adults abounding in common sense who nonetheless managed to find new and exciting ways to horrifically injure themselves in a momentary lapse.
I myself have a permanent titanium plate in my left middle finger from a case of "seemed like a good idea at the time" incident which took less than 2 seconds to occur, and I can assure you I find myself perfectly sensible and possessed of common sense.
For arguments sake, look up road fatalities per capita for your jurisdiction for the 10 years before seat belt laws and the 10 years after.
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