There are external costs when someone doesn't wear their seatbelt. First responders are kept busy tending to their needs when they are injured. Ambulances and h

There are external costs when someone doesn't wear their seatbelt. First responders are kept busy tending to their needs when they are injured. Ambulances and hospital resources are kept busy when they otherwise wouldn't need to be. Rear seat passengers not wearing seatbelts can directly injure front seat passengers who did not consent to the risk. To argue that the seatbelt law impacts on personal freedom seems shortsighted to me.