You were an idiot to push that many people into a Lada. Just like with seat belt laws, people have to have a disincentive so they wear the damn things. Morons like this are also going to violate traffic rules (which they did), which is going to end up with their children becoming airborne projectiles without seatbelts or car seats, so they need a wallet spanking to learn their damn lesson.
The disincentive is seeing people die due to not wearing their seat belts. If that's not actually happening very much, it's just the government interfering in your life "for your own good".
Further, there is little or even no evidence that car seats do any good. So long as the kids have a belt to keep them from flying out the window, they're as safe as they would be in a car seat.
From the video, it sounded like they were wearing belts, just not booster seats (which are even more pointless than car seats). Don't know about Wisconsin, but in my area it's legal to share seatbelts so long as all seatbelts are occupied.
I agree with the idea of "broken window" policing but, again from the video, they weren't locked up and went on to rob a man at knifepoint a few months later. Wanna bet that CPS was never involved either?
These guys are scumbags, but this is an excellent example of cops being totally useless in actually protecting people, even when opportunities are presented.
If that's not actually happening very much, it's just the government interfering in your life "for your own good".
It does wildly happen that much. I was a big prominent of keeping r/WatchPeopleDie up on Reddit, and one of the single most common things that everyone on that sub learned from watching videos was: always wear your seatbelt.
Seatbelts are hugely important for safety when traveling at anything over 35 MPH. Most accidents at 35 mph, long before many safety features on the inside of the car, tended to be lethal. As cars began to be able to travel at 55 MPH and 65 MPH on interstates, the extreme danger of those speeds during a collision (in cars with no real structural safety measures) became readily apparent. This song was written as a result of yet another teen being killed on a recently completed interstate near where the songwriter lived. Of the band you hear singing, several members were also nearly killed in a car accident. The vocalist and pianist were seriously injured, and the producer to the album was killed. For all intents and purposes, these vehicles have almost no safety features, and the seat-belt is the only thing that stops you from being a projectile. The IIHS has been around for a while so they've been beating the drum of why you should always wear a god damned seat belt for 50 years.
Further, there is little or even no evidence that car seats do any good. So long as the kids have a belt to keep them from flying out the window, they're as safe as they would be in a car seat.
This is not the case. A seatbelt helps, but car seats are necessary because children do not properly fit into the safety parameters of a car seat. This is why you have to put small children into car seats. The seats are designed to fit the seat-belt properly around the child so that it doesn't damage them in car accidents. Again, very old lessons of seat-belt design were learned back in the debates of whether or not a lap restraint or a shoulder harness was preferrable. The hard truth was that in a serious impact, the shoulder harness allowed people's bodies to be ripped out underneath the belt, and even cause decapitations. Lap restraints alone, could cause horrific intestinal and organ damage. You needed both to stop the movement of the abdomen and chest at the same time, and it needed to fit you properly. Car seats do that for children, because it forces the belt into a position that fits the height of the child.
The disincentive is seeing people die due to not wearing their seat belts. If that's not actually happening very much, it's just the government interfering in your life "for your own good".
Further, there is little or even no evidence that car seats do any good. So long as the kids have a belt to keep them from flying out the window, they're as safe as they would be in a car seat.
From the video, it sounded like they were wearing belts, just not booster seats (which are even more pointless than car seats). Don't know about Wisconsin, but in my area it's legal to share seatbelts so long as all seatbelts are occupied.
I agree with the idea of "broken window" policing but, again from the video, they weren't locked up and went on to rob a man at knifepoint a few months later. Wanna bet that CPS was never involved either?
These guys are scumbags, but this is an excellent example of cops being totally useless in actually protecting people, even when opportunities are presented.
It does wildly happen that much. I was a big prominent of keeping r/WatchPeopleDie up on Reddit, and one of the single most common things that everyone on that sub learned from watching videos was: always wear your seatbelt.
Seatbelts are hugely important for safety when traveling at anything over 35 MPH. Most accidents at 35 mph, long before many safety features on the inside of the car, tended to be lethal. As cars began to be able to travel at 55 MPH and 65 MPH on interstates, the extreme danger of those speeds during a collision (in cars with no real structural safety measures) became readily apparent. This song was written as a result of yet another teen being killed on a recently completed interstate near where the songwriter lived. Of the band you hear singing, several members were also nearly killed in a car accident. The vocalist and pianist were seriously injured, and the producer to the album was killed. For all intents and purposes, these vehicles have almost no safety features, and the seat-belt is the only thing that stops you from being a projectile. The IIHS has been around for a while so they've been beating the drum of why you should always wear a god damned seat belt for 50 years.
This is not the case. A seatbelt helps, but car seats are necessary because children do not properly fit into the safety parameters of a car seat. This is why you have to put small children into car seats. The seats are designed to fit the seat-belt properly around the child so that it doesn't damage them in car accidents. Again, very old lessons of seat-belt design were learned back in the debates of whether or not a lap restraint or a shoulder harness was preferrable. The hard truth was that in a serious impact, the shoulder harness allowed people's bodies to be ripped out underneath the belt, and even cause decapitations. Lap restraints alone, could cause horrific intestinal and organ damage. You needed both to stop the movement of the abdomen and chest at the same time, and it needed to fit you properly. Car seats do that for children, because it forces the belt into a position that fits the height of the child.
CPS is different than cops.