Why you can get ticket while driving car with out sit belt on and drive motorcycle with out helmet?
Why in Florida you can get a ticket for not wearing sit belt while you drive your car and you can drive motorcycle with out helmet?Don't you think it is stupid?Try to hit a concrete wall at 35 mh/hour speed on motorcycle with out helmet and car with out wearing sit belt.Probably,person on the motorcycle will be dead with brain parts all over the wall and I am will be fine with out even wearing the sit belt in my car.Just interesting what kind of excuse will be for that one?
2010-05-24T11:44:45Z
I would like to add some details,since I have received 8 answers already.I did not have a ticket for sit belt,I just saw commercial"clickit or ticket" on TV last night.Also,i am not agree that if I am not buckle up I possess more danger for rest of the people and John ,I have been in car accidents and I saw motorcycle accidents.In car accident you have way more chances to survive even if you do not wearing sit belt,with motorcycle-very slim chance to survive,helmet does help.AT least your brain will be in one place,not all over the road.I do not think motorcycle's drivers more careful drivers ether,many of them act like they own the road,which is show that they very stupid,they have no chance to survive crash with my track.
Wearing a seat belt is mandatory in my state. Wearing a helmet is not mandatory in my state. That is how the laws read. I don't need a law to tell me to buckle up either my seat belt or my motorcycle helmet. I was in an auto accident a life time ago and was knocked out of the car. Fortunately I only suffered road rash. Been wearing a seat belt ever since. Wearing a full face helmet is a no brainer. The problem come into play when the government tells us what choices to make. That is the argument made by the anti-helmet law proponents.
Several reasons - none of them have to do with logic. They all have to do with the all mighty dollar.
1. The Federal Government won't fork over highway funds unless the state plays by their rules - which means things like maximum speed limits (Montana speed limit on the hwy is 80 MPH, why 65 in FL?), anti-smog requirements, and seat belt laws.
2. Biggest reason, insurance industry lobbies for seat belt laws to keep their claims minimized. And the law helps push down insurance rates for drivers, which voters like.
3. Statistically a helmet doesn't help a great deal in motorcycle crash. EMTs will tell you that wearing a helmet just makes finding the head easier after a bad accident. The statistic is something along the lines of - a helmet helped save the riders life in 2% of motorcycle accidents.
4. Motorcyclists will usually fight helmet laws much more effectively than drivers fight seat belt laws.
5. Motorcyclists make up a very small % of highway users/accidents, so in the grand scheme of insurance claims it doesn't mean much.
Motorcyclists in FL pay an extra fee to a fund to not wear a helmet. The proceeds of the fund takes care of them if they get their brains scrambled.
Would you be willing to pay an extra fee to not wear your seatbelt? If there were enough support for this, if could be put onto the ballot just like the helmet issue above. The reason the helmet issue was passed is that motorcyclists tend to be a fiercely independent bunch, and have very good support (American Motorcyclists Association - AMA), which, I should also mention they also pay a yearly fee to be a member of. This is a situation where "the squeaky wheel gets the oil." Car drivers just don't complain loudly enough. Demand your rights. Start a movement.