On January 1, 2010, an 18-year-old man died from a single vehicle crash in Spotsylvania County, VA. He was driving on Massaponax Church Road when his car ran off the road and went down an embankment. He drove into a culvert and was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. It should be noted that he was not wearing his seat belt.
There are two different seat belt laws enforced in the United States. Primary seat belt law allows officers to pull over and ticket the drivers without any other violations than not wearing their seatbelts. Secondary seatbelt law states that an officer can only ticket the driver for this particular violation when they are pulled over for another citable offense. In Virginia, Secondary seat belt law is enforced. Maybe if Virginia enforced a Primary seat belt law and educated the public, then this death could have been avoided.
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