To the Editor:
Wearing a seat belt while driving became a law in 1968 because the evidence showed seat belts save lives. Prior to this, hospital ICUs were getting overwhelmed with car crash victims, both severely injured or in a vegetative state, which limited the number of beds they had available for other critical care patients (heart attack, stroke, etc). Wearing a seat belt reduced the number of car crash patients in the ICUs, allowing for more beds to open up.
The seat belt law isn’t there for the government to control you; it’s there as a public health measure so that the most…
December 16, 2020
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