Texas does give motorcyclists a choice. It requires those going without
helmets to carry additional medical insurance to offset the brain injury
costs.
David
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:21:17 +0000 dlancer7676@comcast.net writes:
> Ya know, I have heard the seatbelt/no seatbelt argument and the
> motorcycle helmet/no motorcycle helmet argument I guess most of my
> long life. My dad, god bless him and his wonderful heart, hated
> seat belts and would always point out that one incident where a guy
> was killed and the investigators said if he HADN'T been wearing his
> belt he might have lived. But my Dad still wore seat belts.
>
> I have concluded one thing, and I have written my State legislators
> with my concern, and that is that if you are NOT wearing your
> seatbelt or your motorcycle helmet and we are involved in an
> accident with one another, then MY liability increases because of
> YOUR stupid decision not to protect yourself. Therefore, I would be
> in favor of a law which provided CHOICE on whether to wear a
> seatbelt or a motorcycle helmet AS LONG AS it ALSO RELEASES THE
> OTHER DRIVER FROM LIABILITY IN THE EVENT OF A WRECK CAUSING INJURY
> to your moronic head or body, regardless of fault (eleminates all
> the legal wrangling and hookey-do, and if you protect yourself the
> law wouldn't matter anyway).
>
> There, simple solution to a stupid problem. 8^)
>
> --David C.
> Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled.
>
>
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