48 Million Refuse to Buckle Up
laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE
We need laws mandating that kids under 16 be buckled, but let adults
make their own choice.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Seat-Belt-Campaign.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 15, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seat belt use is reaching record levels, so just
who are the holdouts who fail to buckle up? Often they are young men
who live in rural areas and drive pickups, the government says.
About 48 million people do not regularly put on seat belts when they
are on the road, a figure the government's highway safety agency hopes
to lower with an annual public education campaign ahead of the summer
driving season.
The ''Click It or Ticket'' campaign involves checkpoints, patrols and
advertisements to help enforce seat belt laws. It runs from May 22
through June 4.
The latest report on seat belt use by the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration says men account for 65 percent of the more than
31,000 people killed each year in passenger vehicles.
The report being released Monday found:
--58 percent of those killed who were not wearing a seat belt crashed
along rural roads.
--in crashes involving pickup trucks, about seven in 10 people who
died were unbelted.
--more than six in 10 people age 8-44 who were killed inside a
passenger vehicle were not buckled up.
The agency said that lap and shoulder safety belts reduce the risk of
death for those in the front seat of passenger cars by 45 percent and
the risk of moderate-to-critical injuries by 50 percent.
The fatality risk for front-seat motorists in sport utility vehicles,
pickup trucks and vans who wear seat belts is reduced by 60 percent;
moderate-to-critical injuries by 65 percent.
The public education campaign is using $31 million in state and
federal grants for national and state ads that seek to attract young
drivers who watch sporting events such as NASCAR and baseball.
''Those who still don't buckle up need to know that police officers
will be aggressively enforcing seat belt laws throughout the country
and that violators will be ticketed,'' said Phil Haseltine, executive
director of the National Safety Council's Air Bag & Seat Belt Safety
Campaign.
Transportation officials have pushed for more states to enact laws
allowing police to stop motorists solely for failing to wear a seat
belts. The laws, called primary enforcement safety belt laws, have
been enacted in 25 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
The remaining states have secondary enforcement, which allows tickets
for seat belt violations only if motorists are stopped for another
offense. New Hampshire has no seat belt law for adults.
DanaPointe
47,999,999.
I just saw one of them hanging (from the waste down) out of his
overturned truck a few weeks ago. Still can't shake that sight .. or
the look on the bystanders' faces as they waited for help to arrive.
Pooh Bear
laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE wrote:
> We need laws mandating that kids under 16 be buckled, but let adults
> make their own choice.
So as to help cull the trailer park trash adults ?
Graham
laura bush - VEHICULAR HOMICIDE
wrote:
This is a self-correcting problem. I say good riddance to adults that
won't buckle up.
necromancer
> So as to help cull the trailer park trash adults ?
Sounds good to me...
SheBlewHimDidYouBlowHim
> The ''Click It or Ticket'' campaign involves checkpoints, patrols and
> advertisements to help enforce seat belt laws. It runs from May 22
> through June 4.
instead of click it or ticket, I have a better idea, how about calling my
idea, the:
quit harassing people or be killed ? idea
Ted Kennedy - President of DDDAMM (Drunk Driving Divers Against Mad Mothers)
<xeto...@yahoo.com> was understood to have stated the following:
>
>We need laws mandating that kids under 16 be buckled, but let adults
>make their own choice.
It's a self-correcting problem, much like the 42,000 deaths or so a
year we have on our roadways.
How ya doin', loser?
---
"Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?" ~ Senator Ted Kennedy, 1973
--
El Pollo Loco (Laura Bush Murdered Her Boyfriend) demonstrates it's complete gullibility, stupidity, and state of delusion when it falls for an April Fool's joke, hook, line, and sinker:
> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.democrats.d/msg/008d032d86999983?hl=en&
Ragnar wrote:
> Gods, you're dumb. Its a rather obvious April Fool's joke. And you're
> the Fool.
This is no joke. Bush has gotten away with stealing two elections and blowing up WTC and lying america into war. So don't put a third term
attempt past him. I mean who's gonna stop him. The democrats and the media are totally bought off.
necromancer
> We need laws mandating that kids under 16 be buckled,
No, we don't. If the parents are too dumb (or lazy) to teach their kids
to buckle up in the car, then we don't need those genetic lines being
continued. Its Darwin's way of correcting a mistake. Let Darwin do his
job.
> but let adults make their own choice.
Again, let Darwin do his job.
Sharon
> wrote:
>
>>> 48 Million Refuse to Buckle Up
>>
>>47,999,999.
>>
>>I just saw one of them hanging (from the waste down) out of his
>>overturned truck a few weeks ago. Still can't shake that sight .. or
>>the look on the bystanders' faces as they waited for help to arrive.
>
Was this in the Washington DC area by any chance? I heard of a
horrific accident a few weeks ago where some man leaned out of his window while
he was driving and removed his head. There weren't many details other than the
local authorities were investigating to figure out what in heck caused it. I
suspect he had to puke or something and got a little too close to a jersey wall
or overpass pylon... no idea.
- Sharon
"Gravity... is a harsh mistress!"
DanaPointe
No, Montana.
Aunt Judy likes it in the rear
Two words: "Urban Legend."
DanaPointe
Actually, it's not. It happened outside Atlanta in 2004:
100,000 Bond in Beheading Wreck
A 21-year-old man faces a $100,000 bond for his role in a grisly
driving accident that decapitated his passenger, police said.
John Kemper Hutcherson appeared in Cobb County Magistrate Court about
8:30 a.m. Monday for his first court hearing. He is charged with
first-degree vehicular homicide, leaving the scene of an accident and
driving under the influence of alcohol and marijuana, police said.
Hutcherson remains at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center and does
not have a subsequent court date set. Police also say Hutcherson's
toxicology results may not be known for several weeks.
Authorities suspect Hutcherson and 23-year-old Francis Daniel Brohm,
friends since high school, were likely drunk when they left a bar in
Marietta, Ga., about midnight Sunday. Brohm, in fact, is alleged to
have been ill.
That may be why Brohm stuck his head out of the passenger window when
Hutcherson, who drove the truck, veered off the shoulder of Canton
Road, struck a curb and clipped the guard wire of a nearby telephone
pole, police say.
The wire decapitated Brohm. Hutcherson drove home after the accident,
parked his truck in the driveway and then fell asleep, police said.
About 8 a.m. Sunday, Cobb police received a call from a man who was out
walking with his 1-year-old daughter and discovered Brohm's headless
and bloody body hanging outside the truck's window.
Police later found Hutcherson asleep inside the house, covered in blood
and visibly inebriated. He was arrested in bed and taken to a nearby
hospital for treatment.
Officers later found Brohm's head near the crash site.
11Alive learned that police arrested Brohm last January for possession
of marijuana, and Hutcherson was charged with an incident for underage
alcohol in 2001.
A memorial service has been scheduled for Brohm for 7 p.m. Tuesday at
Saint Ann's Church in Cobb County. The funeral will take place in
Lexington, Kentucky.
The family has asked that, in lieu of flowers, donations be sent to the
Big Brother's and Big Sister's Club of Atlanta.
Article with pics:
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=51218
TedKennedyMurderedHisP...@spamgourmet.com
DanaPointe wrote:
> > Two words: "Urban Legend."
>
> Actually, it's not. It happened outside Atlanta in 2004:
>
> 100,000 Bond in Beheading Wreck
Actually after you posted this, I recalled reading this article some
time back.
But I grew up (and I'm ancient) hearing tales like this without any
form of substantiation. :-)
mavman
Sharon
If it's an urban legend, then the Washington Post is really worse than
I thought, since they reported it. (I wouldn't be surprised. The Letters to
the Editor and Free for All sections are fun to read because they always have
letters where people point out the stupid mistakes the editors and journalists
make.)
Larry Scholnick
more than Newton imposed Gravity on a free-floating world.
Depending on your point of view, you can say let God or Nature do the job,
but certainly not Darwin.