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Posted on 05/28/2012 9:17:17 AM PDT by lacrew
Law enforcement officers across Kansas will be working overtime this weekend to enforce seat belt laws as part of the Click It or Ticket campaign.
The campaign began Thursday and will run through June 6. It is sponsored by a grant from the Kansas Department of Transportation.
KDOT said earlier this week that Kansas Highway Patrol troopers, sheriff’s deputies and police officers statewide will work overtime through Memorial Day weekend specifically to make sure people are buckled up.
Kansas is one of 32 states whose laws allow for a vehicle to be stopped solely because occupants aren’t properly restrained. Kansas officers will be enforcing seatbelt laws at night too because the state exceeds national statistics for deaths of unrestrained riders at night.
Nationwide in 2010, the latest year for which data is available, 61 percent of the 10,647 passenger vehicle occupants who died in motor vehicle traffic crashes during primarily nighttime hours weren’t wearing seat belts, KDOT said. In primarily daylight hours, the rate is 42 percent.
In Kansas, 76 percent of the 154 passenger vehicle occupants who died in traffic crashes between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. weren’t wearing their seatbelts, compared with 57 percent during daytime hours.
The law requires all persons in the front seat must be buckled in and everyone under the age of 18 must be buckled in regardless of their location in the vehicle. If a passenger under the age of 14 is unrestrained, the driver will be cited. Where a driver or passenger age 14 through 17 is seen without a seat belt, that person will be cited.
Children under age 4 must be secured in an approved child safety seat, and children ages 4 through 7 must be belted into an approved booster seat. Children ages 8 through 13 must wear seat belts. The law also prohibits people under the age of 14 from riding in any part of a vehicle not intended for carrying passengers, such as a pickup bed.
More than 140 Kansas law enforcement agencies will be participating in Click It or Ticket with the goal of reducing the number of preventable deaths and injuries that occur when unbelted drivers and passengers are involved in traffic crashes.
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the nannystate ignores the law of unintended consequences; whatever their motive, it has the inevitable irrevocable effect of dilution/pollution/dissolution of the human gene pool
when it fosters the survival of the otherwise inept and inane. the tree huggers will then have their way when the heroic animal kingdom re-inherits this good earth.
until then get the effing corrupt government out of my face.
What...?bikes...motorcycles....same exposure...no belts...hmmmm......whole thing sounds kind of t.s.a.ish...
Oh wait they need money...the IRS/ is in troble
after redistributing...accidently 4.5 billion to illegals
:someone needs to pay...someone needs to be held RESPONSABLE
for us and all our children...:
remember...how fast that clip was altered...
What I’ve learned from all of the Nannystate commercials about seat belts and drunk driving:
#1 - Only 40 year old white guys get pulled over by the cops.
#2 - 40 year old white guys are responsible for all DUI and seatbelt violations.
Does Kansas think school buses can’t possibly have accidents? (seat belts).
Its a lot safer and more lucrative to harrass the middle class driver than go after criminals.
#3 - Usually arrested by a black cop.
“Does Kansas think school buses can’t possibly have accidents? (seat belts).”
Nope. Nor do mailmen, newspaper delivery people, motorcyclists, any vehicle designed to carry over 10 passengers, or any vehicle weighing more than 12,000 pounds.
The cop creates a much larger hazard by pulling someone over for no real reason, what with the distrcting flashing lights, the slowing traffic and resulting congestion, than whatever minor “hazard” the person not wearing the seatbelt might have represented.
“The cop creates a much larger hazard by pulling someone over for no real reason”
This guy first saw me at an intersection....he did a u-turn...but no lights yet. He tried to get beside me; but, I had to move to the left lane, because another cop had somebody else pulled over. We have a very dangerous law that requires you to move to the left lane in this situation (which my wife has been ticketed under).
Anyway, I’m now in the left lane, with this guy behind me. I move back to the right, after passing the stopped cop car...and I’ve lost my guy. I absolutely cannot see him. Then I become aware that, in his quest to see my seatbelt status, he is deliberately hanging out in my blind spot.
Then he drops back, switches to the right lane and flashes the lights.
After we are all done, and I am free to go, his pal in the other cop car arrives on scene, as backup I suppose. So now we have me, along with two police cars, parked on a busy road, with everybody trying to get to the left lane. There are a few near misses, but eventually everyone clears out, and all three of us pull back onto the road.
Of course its not safe...and of course I want to laugh in the guy’s face when he admonishes me to ‘drive safe’.
And what is most bothersome to me is that all these actions are being done by other ‘citizens’ who have no more moral or God given rights or judgements than the victim. Of course these protectors of the societal restrictions have been given the authority to do what they do. I often wonder if these enforcers think of themselves as ordinary citizens, sometimes I doubt they do or can.
A $10. government fine in Kansas?
Bet the rent, it will be over $150. soon.
Then the insurance companies who are paying off the politicians, will get their piece of ya.
Since this is all about safety, I think cops who are occasionally involved in pursuits, should be made to wear helmets while driving...You know, for their own safety.
but but but when they created those laws they said they would only be secondary offenses if you were pulled over for something else....
Liberty isn’t lost overnight, there are way too many do-gooders demanding protection from life’s risks. Ironically the rise of the nanny state coincides with women’s *liberation* movement.
Papers please comrade, registration, driver’s license, insurance card, seat belts, all ways to look deeper and mine the citizens for $.
I only wear seatbelts when the roads are icy or vision is restricted. I will wear seatbelts only when the word “liberty” is expunged from our state and federal constitutions. I endanger no one by not wearing my belt, what right does the state have to dictate what I wear? and what about “equal protection under the law”? Motorcyclists don’t need to wear them. When I inevitably get my ticket and don’t pay the fine they will jail me for not paying a fine as opposed to not wearing a seatbelt. So be it. “Oh, but if you get hurt then the state may be required to pay for your hospitalization!” That’s a problem with socialism, not liberty.
Ok, let’s talk about more than just seatbelt laws...let’s add motorcycle helmet laws to the equation. In many states motorcycle helmets are not mandatory, especially for adults. Kansas is one of those states. Why the descrepency? Why is wearing a seatbelt more important than wearing a helmet? In states like Kansas where the helmet is optional, why not seatbelts optional?
Here are the motorcycle helmet laws by state...
State Motorcycle law
Alabama - all riders
Alaska - 17 and younger
Arizona - 17 and younger
Arkansas - 20 and younger
California - all riders
Colorado - 17 and younger drivers and passengers
Connecticut - 17 and younger
Delaware - 18 and younger
District of Columbia - all riders
Florida - 20 and younger
Georgia - all riders
Hawaii - 17 and younger
Idaho - 17 and younger
Illinois - no law
Indiana - 17 and younger
Iowa - no law
Kansas - 17 and younger
Kentucky - 20 and younger
Louisiana - all riders
Maine - 17 and younger
Maryland - all riders
Massachusetts - all riders
Michigan - all riders
Minnesota - 17 and younger
Mississippi - all riders
Missouri - all riders
Montana - 17 and younger
Nebraska - all riders
Nevada - all riders
New Hampshire - no law
New Jersey - all riders
New Mexico - 17 and younger
New York - all riders
North Carolina - all riders
North Dakota - 17 and younger
Ohio - 17 and younger
Oklahoma - 17 and younger
Oregon - all riders
Pennsylvania - 20 and younger
Rhode Island - 20 and younger
South Carolina - 20 and younger
South Dakota - 17 and younger
Tennessee - all riders
Texas - 20 and younger
Utah - 17 and younger
Vermont - all riders
Virginia - all riders
Washington - all riders
West Virginia - all riders
Wisconsin - 17 and younger
Wyoming - 17 and younger
I am of the opinion that state may only enact laws that prevent one person from doing harm to another. Shortsighted, I know, but that’s just me, apparently. I’m old enough that I still revere the word liberty.
“I’m old enough that I still revere the word liberty.”
It is time for those of us who are like minded to reimpose liberty on this once great country. We do so by returning to the tenents of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, up through the original 13 Amendments. We must again become the Constitutional Republic of the Founders, or disapear into the obsecurity of Atlantis.
We have a deluge of ads in North Carolina warning that troopers are watching for people driving without seat belts and they will stop you and ticket you.
We were promised that the seat belt laws would only be applicable for drivers stopped for other infractions.
The state lied to us yet again.
We were also promised that the law would only be a secondary offense. I’ve done a little research; and, I have developed a sequence for how the federal gubment assists in enacting a seatbelt law:
1. Confiscate money from the people
2. Offer to give some of it to state governments (in the case of Kansas, $11 million), on the condition that a seatbelt law is passed.
3. Offer the state assistance, in the form of ready canned PSA’s about the subject. In KS, $1 million went to PSA’s, the other $10 went to the general fund.
4. Supply the state with an incremental strategy to follow. It starts with baby seats, but the ultimate goal is a primary offense law.
5. Confiscate more money, and give some of it to the states, as ‘grants’ to enforce seatbelt laws.
6. When budget time rolls around, claim these grants are ‘necessary’ and can’t be cut.
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