Whether the
law will be easy to enforce is another matter, but as supporters of House Bill62 have pointed out, it wasn't easy to enforce the
mandatory use of seat
belts in the 1960s when legislation was first introduced, but that didn't stop the legislation from being passed in the interests of
safety.
Unfortunately, while new
safety regulations such as
mandatory seat -
belt laws and installed technological innovations such as airbags seem to consistently help drivers and passengers to survive more accidents, the dismal numbers relating to large truck accident fatalities are unlikely to improve significantly in the near future, either in Illinois or in the United States as a whole.