Seatbelt Tickets

i'd be all for someone's right to kill themselves in a car, if it didn't mean someone else having to scrape them off the pavement.
and as long as they could do so without hurting someone else.
if you rode a train or a bus, you wouldn't have to wear them though, at least not any place that i know of.

 

$50 is a fucking deal. i've had two seatbelt tickets in my life, both about 8-10 years ago. and both were over $200. the first one came with a ticket for doing something legitimately dangerous (running a stop sign, which i didn't even actually do, but that's not the point of the story), which was only something like $90. so basically, it was over twice as expensive for the seat belt as for the theoretically dangerous driving.

the second seatbelt ticket came with a completely legitimate illegal lane change ticket, which he only gave me a warning for. i assume the lane change violation would have been cheaper and that's why he dropped that and went with the seatbelt, but i really don't know.

like a couple other states mentioned in this thread, i think seatbelts were something that they couldn't pull you over for until recently, but now they can.

in my school, the FFA was just there to win competitions and make our ag teacher look good. actually, the ag program at my school was the perfect example of a conspiracy; the program had a really good reputation but it was actually just 50 minutes of unsupervised free time with hopes of recruiting people for the FFA competitions.

 

We were T-boned, and 1/4 rolled. Air bags opened and I dropped onto hubby when I released my seat belt to get out. My eyeglasses were knocked off my face and onto the opposite side of the dash. I don't know where the cigarette I was smoking went.

We were carrying 2 sets of drums in the back of the van, for a gig. The spindle at the top of the high hat stand punched thru one of the shells on a tom. Those drums were every where when I walked across the interior of the side of the van to go out the back hatch which was the only exit that could be opened.

I'm glad we were wearing seat belts and what I learned it that gear or anything else you're carrying with you in the cabin of your vehicle should be secured too.

We went in another car to the wrecker yard and got the drums, continued to venue, loaded in down circular stairs, and hubby was able to play that night. We loaded out, back up those damn steps and didnt hurt until we stopped moving and got up the next morning.

 

ha ha

yes, I will buy that...it is so humans are not ejected all over the highways........

sad, but I fear that is true

 

I always wear my seatbelt. No question, no mistakes. Feels strange not to, even to do something like re-park.

Of course you shouldn't have to, and they're just trying to steal your money and have a reason to pull you over so they can say they smell dope.

The cops here have electronic signs that say to be safe and wear your seatbelt... or else. It's pretty rich, cops acting like I might be a bigger danger to myself than they are to me.

 

They Have Had Belts Here For Some Years ......



Cheers Glen.

 

The First Car My Father Bought With Seatbelts Was In 1960.

The USA Was Decades Behind Australia.......:-(



Cheers Glen.

 

I agree with this. Wear your seatbelt and you have nothing to complain. How fucking simple does it get. They obviously have their use.

It is the smart thing to do. Maybe a nanny state becomes a nanny state partly when they see enough reason to enforce these nanny laws: e.g. too many stupid people not wearing their seatbelt for whatever stupid reason. Feeling of entitlement is one of them. 'It's my car, I decide myself!'. Wtf... Just pay the damn ticket then. PR reminds me of Yogi in instances like these.

 

:rofl:

 

Agreed. That's just me :-D

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrizqjkSADM

 

I dont know if I should be ashamed or proud for getting undies future farmers of America joke..

 

^ neither, imho

 

sorry my typo bad. I at least fixed my original post.

 

It doesn't take a lot of intelligence to realize it's stupid not to wear a seat belt.

It's a dang slippery slope if we have to go around always making laws for stupid people.

Like a friend of mine once ( facetiously) said;

" Why don't we outlaw glass then?, I mean the shit might cut you or someone else when it breaks.
What if someone drops a beer bottle and a piece of glass takes my eye out? Maybe we need liability insurance for people that use glass..."

 

Lots of bars don't serve beer in glass bottles for that very reason.

 

SHT is a parking lot to Penn Hills during rush hours. RT28 is nicest its ever been, Parkway west I use the back roads thru Noblestown, RT65 backed from the Mckees Rocks bridge to Marshall Ave, I take California Ave beat all that traffic in minutes. Saw Mill Run Blvd best wear a seatbelt head on collision is high on that road.. Once Im out the neighbourhood, I wear the belt but Its not something I put on all the time.

 

There might be some scenarios where not wearing a seatbelt would save you. Overall though, you are way safer wearing a seatbelt.

 

Well, in Maryland, all ticket money goes into the State's General Fund. However, the feds tie in Federal $$$ to police agencies to things such as seat belt enforcement and DUI efforts. A lot of states lowered their DUI BAC levels to .08%BAC after the Feds threatened to withhold funds