Requirement Of Seatbelts

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Natural laws should be passed in all states that require all automotive vehicles to wear seatbelts. Since the United States has one of the lowest seatbelt usage percentages, the United States has one of the highest death tolls in automobile accidents, yet since 1983, the wearing of seatbelts has reduced deaths by an approximate 50,000 people (www.thinkseatbelts.com).
The definition of a natural law, stated in West’s Business Law Text and Cases are “moral and ethical principles that are inherent in human nature and people can discover through…natural intelligence, or reason” (Clarkson,Miller,Jentz&Cross p. 2). This definition states exactly that because of the facts that we know today about wearing seat belts, it should be a law.
There has always been the argument of whether or not seat belts should be required to wear. There are still to this day, many people that say, “The seat belt can’t save my life”, or “I’m only driving for less than 5 minutes”. Those are indeed some people’s opinions, but the fact is that those five minutes could cost you your life. Although there would always be people that were against seat belts, it is for the good of the society that they should be required.
There are many reasons that seat belts should be required to wear. Seat belts are your best protection in a crash. They are designed so that the strongest area of your body absorbs the forces in a crash. They also keep you in place so that your head, face and chest are less likely to strike the windshield, dashboard, other vehicle interiors or other passengers. They also keep you from being thrown out of a vehicle (www.carsp.ca).
Another reason that there should be natural laws for wearing seat belts is because “Based on the calculations, researchers estimated that 12,178 people died from 1995 through 2002 because states failed to put in place primary seat belt laws” (www.cbsnews.com). For example, of those over 12,000 peop...