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When seat belt laws drew fire as a violation of personal freedom (www.history.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was visiting family in rural Virginia five or six years ago and was surprised to hear that seatbelts are still contentious. The most frequent argument that I heard is that wearing seatbelts isn’t safe. Ironically there was a death in the family around the same time in that same area that a seatbelt would have prevented.