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Subcommittee considers allowing failure to wear seat belt as evidence of proximate cause of damages
2398386 · February 20, 2025
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Summary
A witness urged the panel to treat seat‑belt violations as evidence of mitigation of damages only when the failure to buckle was a proximate cause of the claimed injury; senators signaled support for drafting narrower language.
A Senate subcommittee discussed proposed language that would make failure to wear a seat belt admissible in civil actions only when the violation is a proximate cause of the claimed damages.
Megan McVeigh (witness) told the committee she favored limiting the proposed…
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