DOCUMENTS

This page provides links to various documents and reports.

1. Seatbelts Kill. This report tells the history and evolution of seatbelt laws in the United States.

2. Seatbeltvictims.pdf.  This report shows what seatbelts do to people in real accidents in real life.

Seatbeltvictims.htm. If you dont have an adobe acrobat reader or it doesnt work, you can view the same   report in htm.

Seatbeltvictims1.htm. If you have a slow computer or dont want to wait for the previous versions to load you can get a quick look at an unformatted version of the report.

3. The Truth About Seatbelts. This report shows, with 157 pages of documentation, much of it taken from NHTSA's own files, that wearing a seatbelt in an automobile increases the chance of being killed or injured in an accident.  This is a long report and may take a minute or more to load, depending on the speed of your connection and your computer. It is best to wait until the whole thing has finished downloading before attempting to view the different pages in your acrobat reader.

Cover30.pdf. If you dont want to wait for the whole report to download, you can view the first six pages here which will give you gist of the report, without, however, the documentation.

Cover30.rtf, Cover30.txt. Alternate format for those without a pdf reader.

4. 23 USC Sec 153.txt,  23 USC Sec 153.rtf. Although this section is no longer much referenced it is still on the books. The motorcycle people who have not read this section of federal law may be especially interested.

5. 23 USC Sec 402.txt, 23 USC Sec 402.rtf. Notice paragraph (a), subparagraph (2). After air bags had killed hundreds of people, mainly children, our distinguished representatives decided that maybe they didnt want to "increase public awareness of the "benefits" of airbags" after all. (This clause was deleted in the new highway bill).

6. 23 USC Sec 405.txt, 23 USC Sec 405.rtf. Notice paragraph (a), subparagraph (1) takes it as fact that seatbelts "reduce highway deaths and injuries". But as we and others have shown (see document 2, above) this is not only false but it the opposite of the truth. The question now is how many more people are going to die before our representatives reach the same level of understanding about seatbelts that they have about airbags.

7. 23 USC 406.DOC and 23 USC 406.RTF. 23 USC 406 was revised in HR 3 which became PL 109-59 but the revised version is still not available in most on-line version of the U.S.Code so we have reproduced the full text here from PL  109-59. It is important to study the text carefully to understand what is motivating state legislatures, state transportation departments and state police to push the seatbelt scam.

8. The new highway bill (text format)  HR3.rtf (rtf format). HR 3, as passed by the House of Represetatives. By referring to the previous two documents you can understand what Section 2001, paragraph(a), subparagraphs (1 and 2)  propose to do with your tax money. Also read subparagraph (6) and section 2005. (This is not the whole bill. Just the parts that concern us.)

9. The HR 3 Conference Report(txt) HR 3 Conference Report (rtf) as passed by both houses and signed by the president. After almost two years of failing to agree on a new highway bill, the House and Senate managed to agree on this one just before the recess after some really bizarre last minute maneuvering. As you can see, the bill represents some progress for those of us who have been working so hard to lobby congress on behalf of liberty. We still have a long way to go but it shows we can make a difference. (This is not the whole report. Just the parts that concern us.)

10. HR 3058.txt, HR 3058.rtf, HR 3058.htm. (pick your favorite format). HR 3 is an authorization bill. HR 3058 is the actual appropriation bill. This version was written before HR 3 was passed and is way above what HR 3 authorizes. We need to keep an eye on this bill to see what congress does with it now that HR 3 has passed. Bear in mind that HR 3 runs through 2009 while HR 3058 is only for fiscal 2006.

11. HR 3058 press release, (rtf), HR  3058 press release (txt). Read the part about NHTSA. Notice the amount, and percentage increase in funding and the justification stated for the increase in funding - to pay for propaganda to bamboozle people into doing something which is liable to kill them. Hopefully, now that HR 3 has passed and Runge is leaving this will not make it into the final bill. But it's up to us to make sure that it doesn't. (Jeffrey Runge has been replaced by Nicole Nason but this is still of interest.)

12. Freedom First.pdf, Freedom First.rtf, Freedom First.txt This paper, by William J. Holdorf, exposes the fallacy of the claims of the seatbelt advocates and defends our right to choose what we should do for our own safety. (Pick your favorite format).

13. The Fraud of Seatbelt Laws, by William Holdorf. In this article, the late William Holdorf, who devoted the last twenty years of his life to exposing the seatbelt scam, tells some of the sordid history  of how the federal government managed to get states to pass seatbelt laws.