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GoogleAmong those least likely to buckle up: young males, pickup truck drivers and their passengers, people who live in rural areas and nighttime drivers.
The Nevada Police Department is joining with law enforcement today for an aggressive "Click it or Ticket" mobilization to crack down on Missouri's safety belt law violators and to reduce highway fatalities.
Failure to regularly wear a safety belt can be deadly. In 2007, a driver in a Missouri traffic crash had a one in 32 chance of being killed if they were not wearing a seat belt.
In cases where the driver wore a seat belt, their chance of being killed was one in 1,294.
For information on Missouri seat belt usage, visit www.saveMOlives.com
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It should be a choice to whether or not you wear a seatbelt, we didn't have them 50 years ago and there are plenty of people alive today from that time frame to prove that it does not help save lives. I would rather have a case of road rash than a broken back, or not be able to get out if your car catches fire or runs off in the water.
Its just another way to get money from people. I will keep on paying my fines and had a few for it. I don't care.
That was my last ticket and it was eight years ago. I didn't start wearing them then and won't now.
It should be a choice to whether or not you wear a seatbelt, we didn't have them 50 years ago and there are plenty of people alive today from that time frame to prove that it does not help save lives. I would rather have a case of road rash than a broken back, or not be able to get out if your car catches fire or runs off in the water.
Its just another way to get money from people. I will keep on paying my fines and had a few for it. I don't care.
That was my last ticket and it was eight years ago. I didn't start wearing them then and won't now.
Seatbelts make me very uncomfortable and closterfobic and impair my driving ability.
I believe it should be required for children but over the age of 18 should have a choice. I do not wear them but I make sure my kids are all buckled in everytime.
Whatever happened to commonsense? I wish there wasn't the need for a law that requires people to act responsibly...but alas, some choose to not to wear seatbelts. Let's see...don't wear them, get hurt/die or wear them and suffer less pain/live. No brainer! I'd rather have a bruised rib than be thrown thru the windshield and die.
Wear them if you want to. Quit cramming regulation down peoples throats. Let them decide it is their life.
With the current Nevada Police running radar at every block, no one is going to be going fast enough to need one anyway.
I would bet that the Nevada PD got a grant to enforce this law. Any takers?
Does it really matter if they received a grant for it?
Nevada PD is not the only law enforcement agency that received funding from a grant to enforce a city ordinance that was created under the authority of a state law.
You can suffer injuries even if you are going at slower speeds.
So what kind of example do you set for your children if you make sure they are buckled in but yet you choose not to wear yours?
If someone chooses not to wear a seatbelt that is their choice; however they shouldn't complain or gripe when they receive a ticket by someone who is sworn to uphold the city, state or federal laws...after all they are doing their job!!
A grant is the ONLY reason the seatbelt check is being done. Extra enforcement usually only happens when money is involved. But, seat belts? How about unsolved murders? The "Major Case Squad," that's supported by Nevada Police, couldn't get the job done on that one yet, huh?