new texas seat belt law

[David Anderson]

Ok, I've read HB 537 and it appears that they left out motorhomes.  Read the text yourself at:

http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB00537F.pdf

After Sept 1 all occupants must be under a seat belt, not just front seat passengers.  We all wear seat belts in the coach while traveling except when my wife goes to the potty or sits at the table to grab a snack from time to time.   

It makes no sense that I can get a $175 fine for not wearing a seat belt, but I can ride a motorcycle without a helmet and 55 children on a school bus don't have to wear seat belts.  I wish the gov't would quit trying to help me all the time.  (Rant)

David

[MattC]

I never wore a seat belt until I became a Medic.  The first couple vehicle ejections changed my mind.  I wear mine because I know the dynamics of an accident first hand.  Yes I piled up my Nissan but had my seat belt on and was able to resuscitate the woman who pulled out across the road in front of me. 

HOWEVER, I hate the government telling how to do everything.  I agree it sucks.

[John316]

I agree David. Here is a great example how the government "helps" and "improves" things. Prime example. (Rant)

Matt, I also agree with you. I always wear my seatbelt, I just don't think that the government should mandate it!

God bless,

John

[MattC]

I agree, the more government the less freedom. How the heck did I make it to this age, I never wore a bike helmet when I was a kid.  We ALWAYS rode in the back of a pickup if it wasn't freezing.  The .22 I learned to shoot on didn't have a warning stamped in the barrel.

Just part of our spiraling decline.

[Jerry Liebler]

As it is said, 'follow the money'.  Who gets more money if we all wear seat belts?  The insurance companys!  Did your auto insurance rate drop as the new law went into effect?

[Dreamscape]

Go git yer gun, it's dat durn lawyer agin!

[Van]

Render un to ceasar" I guess. I wear my skid lid on the Harley(state law mandates it), but on occasion (as soon as I cross the Dam)like to feel the rocks and the dust(oh and the wind)tearing through my scalp LOL. never had to in the begining,didn't have seat belts either .I wear my seat belt for the same reason (stae law) ,Here in Vegas there are so many high speed accidents on the interstate (I-15),most involve roll overs ,those that did not have theirs on were ejected window up or down makes no difference.
The point (and I agree with others) is it should be every ones choice, I suppose those days are gone apparently with each new generation comes a new set of laws (I blame it on rap music LOL) and a new way of thinking (ripping you off!) who'd a thunk it 

[Nusa]

all occupants must be under a seat belt

I didn't get that from the text you linked, although perhaps it's in the surrounding context that this bill modifies.

What I read is that if someone is sitting in a seat equipped with a seatbelt, the seatbelt must be used. Which is pretty smart thing to do, of course.

I didn't see anything about seatbelts being required in all seating positions, at least in that code snippet.

[blue_goose]

OUR goverment only passed those laws for the people that didn't already know that is what they should do.
Jack

[JohnEd]

Hey, I am with you guys.  I don't want a single stitch of Gummint that isn't absolutely required.  Not even a shred!

Of course, learning that it took the combined efforts of the US Senate and Congress to make all the butchers across our fair nation STOP PUTTING ARSINIC on beef to keep it nice and pink to attract the consumer.  No Lie!  Not a single state would do it but all the guys they sent to DC voted for it with enthusiasm.  What a bunch of hypocrites.  The same with patent medicines....mercury and lead in children's cough syrup and wood alcohol in almost everything.  Took the Fed creating a agency to stop that stuff.  Named the Pure Food and Drug Act.....Food and Drug Administration!  Now we all know that the food processors have our best interests at heart and would NEVER do anything that would make us sick or need a recall of millions of pounds of meat let alone a drug industry that would lie to us about the harm a med might do to us or our children.  just would never ever happen in our great nation....again.

They have hundreds of books on these things and what caused the various agencies to come into existence.  Hundreds!  And, again, I swear that I don't want any more Fed Gummint than is absolutely required to guard me and mine from manufactures, products, poisons, mines, unsafe working conditions that make some fool a extra buck and lots of things.  But not a single teensy weensy bit more than that.  I can't handle AT&T and ENRON way way out of my league as an entity that I could bring to heel.  Yep, I can handle myself and my own stuff and I always have but bearing down on 70 I don't scare nearly as many people as I used to and Corporations disdain me to a man.  I just want the crap taken care of that is over my head and outta my league.  Truly.

Now I did grab the jerk down the street by the throat the other day and march him back down the sidewalk whence he came the other day.  He desperately wanted to uncork that haymaker he was trying to put together but when you are walking backwards and can't breath you have all sorts of mixed priorities.  I was counting on that.  All I said was "could you please pick up you dog $#!% from the lawn?" and I said it politely.  His response was to tell me to go F myself in a rude manner and did that in front of my 5 foot tall librarian wifey.  My limit is ONE of those.  Then I got to talk to the nice policemen that explained Battery to me.  Started off with Mr. Grabe and when they left it was "have a good day John".  I don't know....it was still a stupid thing to do and wifey, whom I thought would be proud of her champion defending her honor, was absolutely ENRAGED .....at me.  No, I don't want the Gummint in all my business....not just yet.  "I hate rudeness in a man.  I won't tolerate it." (Lonesome Dove)

Now if I could just get Exxon to bend over.  I can't handle Iran or Osama either, come to think of it.

John

[fe2_o3]

It's unnatural. Seat belt and helmet laws interfere with our ability to cull the herd...Cable

[Airbag]

Yep I'd like to see them make the middle school kids buckle their seat belts on the school buses. I drove them for two years and never could. The seat belts were just decoration.

[busshawg]

If it was a safety issue wouldn't they enforce the school bus?  Move to Canada, our gov't even helps to not provide us with health care.

[Len Silva]

I tend to agree with allowing the government to let me kill myself if I want to.  There is one other aspect to seat belts however, and that is to protect the other driver.

Race car drivers wear seat belts not so much for protection in an accident, but to keep them in control of a violently moving car.  It's hard enough to control a car that is spinning out on the interstate, it's much harder when you are up against the passenger side door.

[John316]

Len,

I can guarantee you that they weren't thinking of it that way. Good point though.

God bless,

John