Unfastened Seatbelts and Driving Anarchy in South Florida

Re: “Texas: Hispanics and Seat Belts; Crash with Multiple Fatalities.”

A Texas Reader: They never wear the damn things.

Never.
 

By Stan D Mute

I can attest to this. Here in South Florida, I don't go a day without seeing many instances of both latinos and latinas driving one or more kids in back of a car, SUV, or minivan. The kids are bouncing from one side of the vehicle to the other, clambering from the front seat to back then front again. It is unusual enough to be noteworthy when you see one properly belted into his seat.

I don't care much if an adult chooses to abstain from wearing a seat belt. If they're not getting taxpayer funded healthcare (anecdotal evidence suggests most are on freebie-care), they can incur life threatening injury to their heart's content. But it really grinds my sole remaining nerve to see them endanger the kids like they do. It's especially bad here due to the insane degree of incompetence on South Florida's roadways. I've driven in every state but Alaska and Hawaii as well as much of Europe and Central America. South Florida is easily the worst place.

Only in South Florida do you combine the anarchy and chaos of Central American driving with illegals driving 20 mph below the limit for fear of being stopped speeding, elderly blue hairs who forget both where they're going as well as where they are, super entitled trust-funders who believe they do in fact own the road, Canadians who can't manage to grasp how American traffic signals work, latinos generally who refuse to operate turn indicators, negros who are prone to stop in the middle of a busy road to chat with their cousin Shitavious also stopped in an oncoming lane, negroes who also execute freeway exits across six lanes with no warning and U-turns when they realize belatedly that 72nd St. comes after 71st St., and whites who foolishly believe other drivers will follow some type of logical or lawful order on the roads.

It's deeply ironic that the latinos, who otherwise do really love children, exhibit so little regard for their well-being in an automobile. You'll see the same dichotomy when they drive 20 mph below the speed limit in the far left lane on a main thoroughfare, but then drive 20 mph over the limit after turning into a neighborhood filled with children outdoors playing and riding bikes. It's as if the proximity of an automobile switches off the part of the latino brain controlling responsible or thoughtful behavior.