> imprisonment should not be a theoretical outcome for someone wilfully choosing not to wear a seatbelt. It isn't. You might get cited for not wearing a seatbe

> imprisonment should not be a theoretical outcome for someone wilfully choosing not to wear a seatbelt. It isn't. You might get cited for not wearing a seatbelt and then through your own stupidity get thrown in jail but the seatbelt citation alone won't do it. The point about seatbelts is particularly asinine because someone not wearing a seatbelt is not just endangering themselves. In a car it is pretty easy for a person without a seatbelt to become a hundred plus pound projectile. For instance a belted driver sees something in the road and swerves to avoid it; an unbelted person in the front passenger seat unaware of the maneuver will bounce around likely interfering with the driver's control of the car. If the passenger hits their head and is knocked unconscious they're going to rag doll around the inside of the car. A lot of people only think of head on collisions with regard to seatbelts. They don't consider (like the author) all of the non-impact events that can happen in a car and cause people to fly around the passenger compartment. Just slamming on the brakes can throw someone through a window or into the front console.