{"id":2382,"date":"2007-04-13T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/04\/see-how-useless-these-seatbelt.html"},"modified":"2007-04-13T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T14:06:00","slug":"see-how-useless-these-seatbelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/04\/see-how-useless-these-seatbelt.html","title":{"rendered":"See how useless these seatbelt laws are?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mandatory seatbelt laws don’t work and this<\/a> is the proof. They don’t stop people from driving without them. The governor of NJ was in an SUV with a state trooper<\/span> and yet he wasn’t wearing his seatbelt:<\/p>\n

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Gov. Jon S. Corzine was apparently not wearing his seat belt as required by law<\/span> when his official SUV crashed into a guard rail, leaving the governor hospitalized in critical condition, a spokesman said Friday. <\/p>\n

A state trooper was driving Corzine to a meeting between Don Imus and the Rutgers women’s basketball team Thursday night when another vehicle, swerving to avoid a pickup truck, hit the governor’s SUV and sent it into the guard rail on the Garden State Parkway. <\/p>\n

The crash broke the governor’s leg, six ribs, his sternum and a vertebrae. Authorities were searching for the pickup truck driver blamed for causing it.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Seat belts are mandatory for everyone in front seats in New Jersey; the fine for violating the law is $46.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I don’t think we could have a better illustration of the futility of the law and of the importance of wearing a seatbelt.
\nBTW, why bother fining anyone, the consequences of not wearing a seatbelt are pretty severe as the governor demonstrated.
\nAnd then there’s this weird coincidence:<\/p>\n

Corzine was the third straight New Jersey governor to break a leg while in office. James E. McGreevey broke his left leg in 2002 during a nighttime walk on the beach, and Christie Whitman broke her right leg while skiing in the Swiss Alps in 1999.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tags: Corzine<\/a>, NJ<\/a>, seatbelt laws<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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