Originally Posted by
docmonkey
"In a study prepared for the FAA, [B]Department of Transportation researchers concluded that mandatory infant safety seats could have prevented at most only one infant death since 1978
But what the study does not tell you is how many kids ended up with brain damage or in coma. We had several a year at the Peds Trauma unit in Chicago.
As per the economist, whom do you think pays for these kids. Florida had a big push not to mandate motorcycle helmets for similar reasons you give -- until someone figured out the increased medical costs for taking care of the fools who rode without.