close call could have been arested

[rusty pins]

I looked in wonder at the statistics for different countries.

[Baby Brian]

Wow, I love doing 85 in a sports car, backing up without looking or having lights.... (It's so scary it makes me pee myself)

[joakim_]

adults at age 18 and over is responsible for their own safety and fines

17 and under is the drivers responsibility

In Norway at least

[Dubious]

The main problem is that the legal age to drive a car is 16 in many states

Scooter not good enough?

[DavidMW]

It varies widely across states.

[Zander]

I've driven a lot in Norway (Oppland and Hedmark, mostly).

[DavidMW]

I got a picture of a tree-warning sign in Germany.

[redneck diaper boy]

I for one have paid some seat belt fines. The way cars are constructed today, its a wonder that more people are not killed.

[Zander]

I am against seat belt laws but think it would be cool for the insurance companies to

[ForbiddenFruit]

B-but muh freedoms!

[Elfy]

I don't really get this whole debate...

[feralfreak]

I don't really get this whole debate...

[spark]

Thank GOD we finally got some sanity in this debate.

[Dubious]

Helmet not mandatory must be only in the states as everyone else, that I know off, have mandatory and you get fined if you don't use

Some even have mandatory for scooters and such that travel at "running speed"

[rusty pins]

I have always remembered this Dragnet episode where Joe Friday is telling a newspaper reporter what happens in the first second of a head on collision.

[Codyboy]

Put on your damn seatbelt... I work enough wrecks where people are killed, but could have been saved by simply clicking it in. Not wearing a seatbelt is illegal for a reason, and I'm getting tired of having to do death notifications for extremely preventable deaths...

So true.

[Dubious]

The land of the free

[Codyboy]

Another thing I never thought was cute, is when people drive with their tiny little yappy lap dogs on their laps, on the dashboard or leaning on the doors of their cars while they drive.

[Codyboy]

Speaking of helmets, I am an avid inline skater and always wear a helmet and full wrist, elbow and knee pads

[Guest gnappies]

@Zander

[Dubious]

Speaking of helmets, I am an avid inline skater and always wear a helmet and full wrist, elbow and knee pads

[feralfreak]

So true.

[Codyboy]

I'd laugh at you too

If you know what you're doing you only need a helmet and some gloves

All the stuff you are wearing is for trainees/babies

Not with all the idiots on the streets, this is for inline skating on roads with cars, and here there is alot of sand, potholes and streets in disrepair. Just this past year there have been multiple people hit by cars and killed just walking along the sides of the roads.

[Zander]

All the stuff you are wearing is for trainees/babies

[packrat]

Perhaps Darwin is right on one point. Stop wearing seat belts, stop wearing helmets; Evolution of the species might benefit.