My husband refuses to make my stepson wear his seatbelt. he says that he's in the backseat and that he will

Question

not get hurt. Where can i find info about the statatics on fatalities involving children not wearing their seatbelts?

Answer 1

You could show him an example. Have your husband take a ride in the back while you drive and slam on the brakes nice and hard just once. He might get the point when his head comes close to, if it doesn't hit, the front seat.

Answer 2

Your husband has more money than sense. If the law decide to pull him over the driver of the vehicle is responsible for paying the fine.

ALL passengers MUST wear seat belts.

Answer 3

Your husband has no regard for your stepson's safety...When the vehicle is going 35 mph, the occupants are going 35 too, whether they are strapped in or not...There is nothing to keep the unbelted individual from being tossed around inside the vehicle or from being ejected from the vehicle...Either situation will result in critical injury or death...And I would not want to be in his shoes if a police officer sees or suspects that a child in the back seat is not secured.

Answer 4

Does he know if the vehicle would flip over and God I hope it doesnt but if it does the son would be out the window on a roll over, and on a head on collision he would propel like a missile through the front window.

Answer 5

ok how about stopping really fast then ask again

Answer 6

don't know about any specific statistics, but if you Yahoo! "children not wearing seatbelts" you will get a ton of articles about kids being thrown from cars because they weren't wearing a seatbelt.

Answer 7

He should most definitley make the young man wear his seat belt.

He could break his neck,

and possibly die if he crashed his head into the seat in front, or his own seat.

Dangerous.. tsk, tsk.

Answer 8

Your son would die or be severely injured in an accident.  he would be thrown around the car like a sack of potatoes, and may kill or injure occupants in the front seats.   he would prob. go thru the windscreen.  your husband is either an ignorant, arrogant fool, or he doesn't care for the child.  Neither makes him a man, both make him a monster.  I would give very serious thought to what you will do to protect yourself and your son from such a creature, even to re-considering your marriage if he will not change.  He would  be in breach of the rules of the road here, it's a $500- fine, because seat belts are compulsory, to save lives-which they usually do, compared to not using them.  A child is not usually protected adequately by airbags alone, because of their stature, and can be harmed by them.  No driver should think himself immune from an accident, of his own or another's making.

Answer 9

Well from personal experience, my cousin was killed in a car accident (he was the driver).  The other passenger in the front was badly hurt but the back seat passenger who wasn't wearing a seat belt came through the window screen and died!  I won't drive the car at all if my passengers don't wear their belt including my hubby!!! hope you have some luck hun!

Answer 10

these are the kind of people who p**s me off.........MAKE UR KIDS WEAR THEIR SEATBELT UNLESS YOU WANT THEM DEAD.........  ur teaching them bad unsafe habits as well........

Statistics

Motor vehicle crashes are a major cause of death and injury in the United States and unfortunately, children are not excluded from these statistics. In fact, 2004 data show that motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for children between the ages of three and fourteen. In 2004, an average of six children under the age of fourteen were killed every day and another 694 were injured due to motor vehicle crashes. (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2004). For 2003, information from Safe Kids Worldwide indicates that 1,591 child occupants under age fourteen died in motor vehicle crashes and an estimated 220,000 children were injured (n.d.).

Although the defined population is somewhat different, including those younger than thirteen, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety “Fatality Facts 2004: Children” report shows that 1,643 children died in 2003 - a rate of 31.5 deaths per one million children. This report also provides more specific information pertinent to our study by delineating deaths within this category to bicyclist deaths, pedestrian death, and finally our interest, passenger vehicle occupants. This figure in 2004 was 1,165 deaths at a rate of 22.3 per one million children. Motor vehicle crash deaths largely occur to passenger vehicle occupants; they comprise seventy-one percent of these deaths.

The following two graphs demonstrate how different age groups are impacted by motor vehicle crashes. The first, Figure 1, shows the highest number of fatalities among those eight to fourteen. However, the following graph, Figure 2, shows that this is at least partially a function of population size in this group; although age groupings are different between the graphs, rates show that children under one are actually the most severely impacted group.

Breakdown by age of traffic fatalities, from the NHTSA website. “Traffic Safety Facts”, 2004 Data

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety; “Fatality Facts 2004: Children”

While fatality rates have decreased due to motor vehicle crashes, deaths are still high due to increasing population size. Also the number of miles Americans travel has nearly doubled in the past twenty years (NHTSA, 2004). That deaths on Friday, Saturday and Sunday are higher than on weekdays may indicate that increased travel may mean increased motor vehicle crash occurrence and death. Still, it is notable that in 1975 there were 1,384 passenger vehicle occupant deaths and 2,078 combined pedestrian and bicyclist deaths and in 2004, 1,165 passenger vehicle occupant deaths and 372 combined pedestrian and bicyclist deaths. Passenger vehicle occupant deaths appear to be less easily eradicated. (Insurance Institute, 2004)

Answer 11

Google, yahoo. Governmentmod. And its very dangerous, ur son will be through the windsheild one day.

Answer 12

He is a complete Azz Ho   tell him to go get a brain !!!!

Answer 13

Your husband is dead wrong.  Unfortunately, he may have to see his son, dead of a broken neck, before he may be convinced.

The child can be slammed into the back of the front seat, or worse, the VERY unforgiving surface of the front wind shield, the side doors, or, even worse yet, the road pavement outside the car.

Keep in mind, if he still will not make his son wear the seat belt while YOU are driving, YOU will get the ticket.  (does he not know that the child is REQUIRED, by law, to wear the belt and the law makes the DRIVER responsible?)

For statistics, check out the websites for National Highway Traffic Safety Adminstration (U.S. Department of Transportaton), Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, and the American Automobile Association Foundation.

Answer 14

I don't own car.

IT'S LAW THAT EVERYONE MUST WEAR SEATBELT IN ANYWHERE. EVEN IN BACKSEAT. SAME APPLY FOR TAXIS AND VANS.

YOUR HUSBAND DOES NOT  RESPECT FOR YOUR STEPSON'S SAFETY.

If police catch your husband's son did not wear seatbelt, police/state trooper will give you/your fine/ticket.

If you seen "Wildest Police Video", many of them get suffered by accident because they do not wear seatbelt.

SEATBELT IS MOST IMPORTANT EVERYWHERE IN WORLD.

Even if you have air bag, and still have no seatbelt, you could get it hurt.

If you seen the movie "SPEED", since bus has no seatbelt and passengers were panic and officer couldn't stop it because it they slow down to 50mph, bus explores.

If that bus did not not make 50 ft gap jump, it might caused major accident and maybe that might lead those passengers to their death.

Tell your husband SEATBELT IS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW.

For example:

In last year in NYC:

Express bus was going southbound on Manhattan's Franklin D Roosevelt Driver. Since bus has no seatbelt, driver lost control, sending 20 passengers flying to dashboard. Only bus driver was saved because only bus driver had seatbelt.

According to news, reporters think bus was trying to avoid ahead car who was swiftly lane changes.

Another news I remember, teenagers were driving and text messaging at same time. Also, they did not have seatbelt on and they were killed in accident.

If police caught your husband driving with his son had no seatbelt, it can warrant him for "ENDANGERING THE WELFARE OF CHILD" and might send him to JAIL.

I'm sure no one would want to go to jail, so your husband should let his son wear his seatbelt if he doesn't want to get arrested.

For another example:

If car that your husband with his son without seatbelt hit by truck or buses, his son will most likely to get injured or might lead him to his funeral.

Answer 15

In all crashes, back seat lap belts are 32 percent effective in reducing fatalities when compared to unrestrained back seat occupants. The effectiveness estimate is statistically significant with confidence bounds: 23 to 40 percent.

In all crashes, back seat lap/shoulder belts are 44 percent effective in reducing fatalities when compared to unrestrained back seat occupants. The effectiveness estimate is statistically significant with confidence bounds: 38 to 50 percent.

In all crashes, back seat lap/shoulder belts are 15 percent effective in reducing fatalities when compared to back seat lap belts. The effectiveness estimate is statistically significant with confidence bounds: 5 to 25 percent.

At current belt use rates in the back seat, a passenger car fleet equipped entirely with lap/shoulder belts will have approximately 124 fewer fatalities per year than a fleet equipped only with lap belts (confidence bounds: 63 to 180).

If belt use in the back seat increased to 100 percent, lap/shoulder belts could save an additional 515 lives.