Posted by Hal/ Eastern WA on July 16, 2013 at 12:47:59 from (97.115.186.183):
In Reply to: Re: Safety, again OT posted by JD Seller on July 16, 2013 at 08:16:15:
I mostly agree with what you wrote. I wear my seat belt whenever my vehicle so equipped is going to move on the road, and whenever I have ridden motorcycles, I wore a helmet, on road or off. But I don"t do either because of some law. I do it for myself and my family, and because I have decided that it is the right thing for me to do.
Unconstitutional? I disagree, and from what I have read, the courts have said such laws ARE constitutional.
I generally disagree with any law that arbitrarily hinders a person"s choice about what he does when it really doesn"t affect anyone else. But someone getting badly busted up does affect the taxpayers, because sooner or later the taxpayers end up paying for care, or care for the family of the injured.
I live in Eastern Washington, but drive over to Idaho often. It is strange to see people riding motorcycles down the highway in Idaho without helmets. And in our local newspaper, I often read about people being injured when something bad happens while they are riding their motorcycles. I wonder how often the injuries in Idaho wrecks would have been less serious if the rider would have been wearing a helmet?
Unfortunately some people are knuckleheads. If you don"t have laws requiring seat belt and helmet use, they just don"t bother.
I once saw the body of a young man who slid on his back and the back of his unhelmeted head after falling off a motorcycle at high speed. His brains were leaking out of the hole in his skull, onto the pavement. He died right there, but might have walked away if he had worn a brain bucket. An ugly sight, which made me decide that I would ALWAYS wear a helmet on my motorcycle.
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