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Posted on 05/26/2006 9:23:51 AM PDT by WKB
Southaven - Not wearing a seatbelt will soon be enough to get you pulled over by police or state troopers in Mississippi. Saturday the state's new primary offense seat belt law goes into effect.
Right now the Mississippi has a secondary offense seat belt law. That means officers need another reason, like speeding, to pull you over. It's only after you pulled over that officers are allowed to ticket you for not buckling up.
Law enforcement officers can also pull a driver over if they notice that his front seat passenger or anyone in the vehicle is not wearing a seat belt.
Law enforcement officers throughout the mid south plan to beef up their patrols over the long holiday weekend. Troopers in Mississippi plan to set up road blocks in several parts of the state to check for seat belt use.
Mississippi is the 23rd state where officers can pull over a driver for not wear a seat belt. Tennessee passed a primary seat belt law back in 2004.
The new law in Mississippi carries a maximum fine of 25 dollars per vehicle.
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I should have read the comments.
You made the same point I did, but
you made it a lot sooner than I did.
If You do Nothing Wrong, You have Nothing to Fear.
We are At War Now.
It's for The Children.
Fine or no fine, law or no law, I use my seat belt faithfully.
"Keep people safe" implies ownership.
I don't belong to the state.
I have been in two serious accidents with no seatbelt. In both cases with a seatbelt I would have been seriously injured or killed. I wear a seatbelt now because of the law of averages and the law period.
Not to hijack the thread, but about handicap parking, I have been told that you cannot be ticketed in a handicap zone on private property, as in Walmart parking lot as opposed to a space on the street or the courthouse lot. Is that correct? Also the design of the logo has to meet certain specifications to be valid.
Kudos.
If you think its bad now, wait until fully socilialized healthcare gets implemented. It will be every nanny-stater's wet dream as every concievable activity will come under their regulation because, hey, 'Society has to pay for it'.
The fact that even on FR, people are arguing that because of socialism we need more socialism tells me it is a foregone conclusion.
Freedom, we hardly knew ye.
Poignant, and true.
Collectivism has gained the upper hand, so we must all be collectivists.
Stunning how Americans have become so sheeplike so fast.
People ought to wear their belts. Police checkpoints are an awfully high price to pay to make them do it. It's a lose-lose scenario.
This is impracticable. When the ambulance shows up at the scene of a wreck and there's a pretty blonde girl screaming with a shattered pelvis, you're going to tell the paramedics that she failed the breathalyzer so just leave her there?
"Obviously some people ARE stupid enough not to wear seatbelts without being forced to by someone. (And who else would that "someone" be - if not the government?)"
Since when in a free society, do you, as a private citizen, have the right to tell me what to do?
You don't, and because you don't, neither does the Government.
If you want to live in a country where the Government makes your decisions for you, then carry your ass to China.
I'm sure they will accomodate you.
" And when you cost me money because you failed to wear a seat belt - you have VIOLATED THE RIGHTS OF ANOTHER."
Money? That's all you are worried about? I guess it was a good thing that Rich Successful men back in 1775 didn't have your world view.
We'd still be shouting "God save the King"
Pathetic.
Well, the son of a friend from our kids' old school died in a car accident last summer. He'd only just gotten his license, and was breaking the law by having a passenger who was only 16, and didn't have a license. Neither were wearing their seat belts, and BOTH were killed when they were ejected from the car.
BS to the infinity power. This straw man argument doesn't fly. Treat the precious little girl then send the fricken bill. What is so hard about that?
Fricken socialist will create any kind of straw man argument to force us all to be responsible for every idiots actions. Maybe a little chlorine in the gene pool is a good thing. Stupid people multiply faster than we can create laws to make us responsible for them.
By the way your straw man argument is racist like we would only care about some little blonde girl not a black girl with black hair.
The dangerous flying passenger is generally understood to be bouncing around inside the vehicle, did either boy injure a third party in the flight?
I don't analyze things by personal incidents; I was thrown from a 1962 Corvair that flipped from a crosswind and was ejected only to come to my senses hours later around dawn almost 500 feet from the final rest point for the vehicle.
I was told later in the hospital that the car had burned completely after it stopped skidding and rolling.
Had I been belted in, I would have likely died in the flames but that doesn't make me go around arguing that seat belts are dangerous.
My point is that belts don't prevent injuries and often increase them; the notion that all crash injuries are an added burden on society assumes that responders are only on the clock when repairing the damaged victims.
What happens is the fixed costs end up being counted twice when those sort of arguments are made.
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Mass. just had a similar bill in its congress and it was shot down.
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