Toronto Injury Lawyer Blog
Ever ride public transit and wonder why you don’t have to wear a seat belt?
I sure have.
As a personal injury lawyer, we get calls all of the time from people who have been injured taking public transit. People fall because a bus stops suddenly. People get injured in a serious public transit collision. Are these accidents preventable had people been wearing a seatbelt. Or, perhaps, would the injuries to the riders be less significant, or even non-existent, if seatbelts were required.
And I wondered what it would look like if there were laws requiring riders to buckle up on buses, subways or streetcars.
Would things be safer? Would transit slow down because riders were required to buckle up? Would taking a bus or a streetcar be less convenient? Would having a wear a seatbelt act as a deterrent to people taking public transit? Would transit police really enforce these laws and ticket people?
I was very curious as to how this would ever play out. Seeing as I don’t manage a City’s operations, or those of a public transit provider, I would just have to wait and see it play out in the real world. And, wait patiently I did until it finally played out.
And, I would like to share with you what happened.
