Posted on 05/19/2015 6:18:09 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
That’s why one focus of the Click It or Ticket campaign is nighttime enforcement. Participating law enforcement agencies will be taking a no-excuses approach to seat belt law enforcement, writing citations day and night.
In California, the minimum penalty for a seat belt violation is $161.
Fair warning.
ALWAYS WEAR YOUR SEAT BELTS AND YOU WON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IT!................
Stage 1: seat belts are about SAAAAAFETY
Stage 2: We’re going to pass a seat belt law. But they will be a secondary offense ie the police can’t stop you merely for a seat belt violation. Fines will be minimal because we’re just trying to promote SAAAAFETY!
Stage 3: Seat belt laws are now a primary offense. Because it’s all about SAAAAAFETY!
Stage 4: We have a cutesy slogan! Click It Or Ticket! Because if you’re intelligent enough to obtain a license and drive a large, heavy vehicle at 70 mph you still need a dumb slogan devised by a roomful of overpaid bureaucrats!
Stage 5: We’re conducting East German style checkpoints not just for DUI but for baby car seats and for seat belt use! 4th Amendment? It’s written on parchment, man! This is about SAAAAFETY!
Stage 6: That primary offense will now cost as much as a speeding ticket! And sorry if your insurance premiums go up drastically for a single ticket! But hey, State Farm made a nice contribution to our campaigns! Did we mention it’s about SAAAAFETY?
Here in Texas, they'll nail ya for not wearing a seatbelt, yet a person can hop on a motorcycle with no helmet, no seatbelt, no airbags...no nothing. Perfectly legal.
It is illegal to drink and drive. Not drunk driving, drinking a beer on the way home from a hard dayz work, but you can stop at a pub on the way home and have a beer or maybe even two and legally drive home.
Bars can sell alcohol till 2am on Friday/Saturday nights, but drink it, get pulled over...go to the poky. Could it be tax dollars keeping the sale of alcohol till 2am...legal?
I want the gubbamint out of our lives.
Odd that we in FL have a seat belt law but no helmet law.
I always use both, but I like the fact that, at least on the bike, I have a choice.
BTW...Seat belts are not required on the Harley, and helmets are not required in the cage. :-)
Looks to me like it’s much more about REVVVENNUUUE!!
Been wearing my seatbelt every time for over 30 years.
I live in Florida as well.
I learned to ride MC in California in 1973. They had no helmet laws then. But since I was in the military, one was required on base. I would ride off base and remove my helmet.
Then one day on the way back to base, I had just put on my helmet and was returning when I had an accident with some loose sand. My helmet had a 3 inch gash in it.
I have worn a helmet ever since...............
I was given a good reason to always wear a seat belt. You need it for protection from the airbag.
Wearing a seatbelt is a habit for me.
If I had been wearing a seat belt when my car was hit by a drunk driver back in 1970; I would have been dead for the last 45 years.
Aeons ago, before there were airbags, I learned what you really need a seatbelt for.
It holds you in place during extreme maneuvers. I can think of a couple of situations in which the seatbelt helped me avoid a collision or crash.
But that’s just me.
Seatbelt LAWS were tyranny from the beginning.
Coercive statism at its worst.
Revenue.
Eating out our sustenance.
When people ask me if I always wear my helmet, I reply that I have always been fond of my brain and have become quite attached to it!
This campaign started yesterday in Wisconsin and will be enforced until the end of the month.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
We might be Neighbors!
I have come to realize that laws such as this are driven by an unholy alliance between State Governments and Insurance companies who have a vested interest in minimizing damage claims.
The Insurance companies get the States to do their dirty work for them, but the State should not be in the business of imposing restrictions to people's freedom to protect the interests of a third party.
"DO AS YOU ARE TOLD!"
Yeah, we get it, we just don't agree that we should have to.
Seatbelt laws are driven primarily by insurance corporations.
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