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Subject: Re: Massachusetts seat belt law
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Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 07:51:15 EST
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> >Perhaps the mandatory seat belt laws should be amended to state
> >that anyone hurt in an auto accident and found not to have buckled up be
> >required to assume the  full costs associated with his injuries,
> >including the cost of police, fire, ambulance, hospital, court, and
> >rehabilitation!
> 
> Unfortunately, several courts have ruled against "contributory negligence" in

     The North Carolina seatbelt law was specifically written so that failure
to wear the belt could not be actionable in the contributory negligence
sense.  I thought that North Carolina was one of very few states in which
contibutory negligence of another party could save you from a negligence
action....

dya