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rudeboy wrote:

kanelli wrote:There should be laws, and that is my point. Otherwise, it is unfair for the woman to be charged with killing her unborn child in this case.

I don't think that anyone is naive enough to think that seat belts protect people from death in an accident 100% of the time. However, research supports the view that child car seats and booster seats and use of seat belts reduces people's chance of dying because they won't be thrown from the vehicle. If you get crushed inside the vehicle then there is no hope even with a seat belt, but if there is no crush impact in areas of the car, you'd be protected by staying put thanks to a seat belt! How lucky is the person who gets thrown from the vehicle through the hard glass windshield at high speed and lands hard on the ground or thrown against another object and survives but suffers permanent disability and brain damage?

there will be a law in the future am sure. UAE is developing so its going to take some time before there is some law about seat belts.

kanelli wrote:Here is a recent article that tells of a 9 month pregnant Lebanese woman in Dubai who was speeding and following another vehicle too closely and had a bad accident that severed the baby's umbilical cord resulting in death. She is charged for the death and must pay 20,000 AED blood money.

http://www.7days.ae/storydetails.php?id ... orn%20baby

My question is, what about all the parents who had accidents with children unrestrained by proper car seats and seat belts and it resulted in their deaths? Correct me if I'm wrong, but they haven't been charged with the death of their older children and asked to pay blood money.