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"YOUR PAPERS PLEASE?"State wants 75% compliance
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State wants 75% compliance
Wednesday, May 01, 2002
BY FRANK COZZOLI
Of The Patriot-News
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Officers from 200 police departments across the state will participate this month in a program to boost seat-belt use that includes random safety checkpoints.
The checkpoints will be on roads with high crash rates and those identified by the state as being used by unlicensed drivers or illegal vehicles, said Richard S. Shaffer, the commonwealth's statewide law enforcement liaison.
The roads that will be the focus of the checkpoints were not identified.
"Let me make it clear, the traffic-safety checkpoints are not seat-belt checkpoints," Shaffer said. "We're out there to identify motorists who are unlicensed and vehicles that are unregistered, uninspected or uninsured."
State police, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and others yesterday kicked off a initiative called "Click It or Ticket" to increase seat-belt use.
"It's not about writing tickets -- it's about saving lives," said PennDOT Secretary Bradley L. Mallory.
All front-seat riders, regardless of age, must be buckled up, according to state law.
But failure to be buckled is a "secondary" offense. Motorists must have committed an initial infraction, such as speeding, to be pulled over and cited.
Pennsylvania's seat-belt compliance rate is at 70.5 percent. Officials want to see that boosted to 75 percent this month.
State Police Commissioner Col. Paul J. Evanko said too many people haven't gotten the buckle-up message.
"So we've got another message: If you're stopped for a traffic violation such as speeding and you're not buckled up, you're going to get two tickets," Evanko said.
Shaffer said the "Click It or Ticket" effort is part of the an ongoing "Buckle Up PA" project.
Drivers who pass through the checkpoints will be cited for seat-belt violations "without hesitation" if they're also being cited for an initial offense, Shaffer said.
May also is prom season. Officials are most concerned about teen-age drivers, particularly males ages 16 to 18. "They tend to be the risk takers in society," Mallory said.
Chad Bear, 19, of Newville, was one of them.
On July 6, 1999, two days before he turned 17, Bear had a brush with death when the car in which he was riding crashed in Lancaster County.
Bear, who was thrown from the car, spent six days in a coma in a Lancaster hospital. He said he was in rehabilitation for a month before he realized what had happened.
Bear said he didn't wear a seat belt to be "cool" around his friends. Now, he's helping PennDOT push the seat belt message.
"Your life can be taken in a few seconds, hundredths of seconds, actually," he said. FRANK COZZOLI: 975-9797 or fcozzoli@patriot-news.com
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Wednesday, May 01, 2002
BY FRANK COZZOLI
Of The Patriot-News
Try Our Classifieds
Officers from 200 police departments across the state will participate this month in a program to boost seat-belt use that includes random safety checkpoints.
The checkpoints will be on roads with high crash rates and those identified by the state as being used by unlicensed drivers or illegal vehicles, said Richard S. Shaffer, the commonwealth's statewide law enforcement liaison.
The roads that will be the focus of the checkpoints were not identified.
"Let me make it clear, the traffic-safety checkpoints are not seat-belt checkpoints," Shaffer said. "We're out there to identify motorists who are unlicensed and vehicles that are unregistered, uninspected or uninsured."
State police, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and others yesterday kicked off a initiative called "Click It or Ticket" to increase seat-belt use.
"It's not about writing tickets -- it's about saving lives," said PennDOT Secretary Bradley L. Mallory.
All front-seat riders, regardless of age, must be buckled up, according to state law.
But failure to be buckled is a "secondary" offense. Motorists must have committed an initial infraction, such as speeding, to be pulled over and cited.
Pennsylvania's seat-belt compliance rate is at 70.5 percent. Officials want to see that boosted to 75 percent this month.
State Police Commissioner Col. Paul J. Evanko said too many people haven't gotten the buckle-up message.
"So we've got another message: If you're stopped for a traffic violation such as speeding and you're not buckled up, you're going to get two tickets," Evanko said.
Shaffer said the "Click It or Ticket" effort is part of the an ongoing "Buckle Up PA" project.
Drivers who pass through the checkpoints will be cited for seat-belt violations "without hesitation" if they're also being cited for an initial offense, Shaffer said.
May also is prom season. Officials are most concerned about teen-age drivers, particularly males ages 16 to 18. "They tend to be the risk takers in society," Mallory said.
Chad Bear, 19, of Newville, was one of them.
On July 6, 1999, two days before he turned 17, Bear had a brush with death when the car in which he was riding crashed in Lancaster County.
Bear, who was thrown from the car, spent six days in a coma in a Lancaster hospital. He said he was in rehabilitation for a month before he realized what had happened.
Bear said he didn't wear a seat belt to be "cool" around his friends. Now, he's helping PennDOT push the seat belt message.
"Your life can be taken in a few seconds, hundredths of seconds, actually," he said. FRANK COZZOLI: 975-9797 or fcozzoli@patriot-news.com
http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/10202455181978654.xml
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Comments
It's for the children...
Law-abiding people have nothing to fear...
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Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
PC=BS
Seat belts along with Motorcycle helmets need to be CHOICE! If I want to take a chance with MY life and not wear a belt or a helmet it should be MY choice not big brother. I know the dangers of it and even though I have been LUCKY I still choose personal freedom of choice over someone telling me to buckle up. I will pay every seatbelt ticket I get, I still aint puttin one on. It's my choice and if they don't like too bad!
DEAD PEOPLE DON'T PAY TAXES!!!!
I'm not afraid of the dark...the dark is afraid of me!
Its all tax dollars.
I'm not afraid of the dark...the dark is afraid of me!
What is the CAT fund?
I'm not afraid of the dark...the dark is afraid of me!
The Cat fund was set up for uninsured motorist. It is there to fund medical bills when insurance is non existant. Problem with it is you need a lawyer to dip into it to pay for the bills.
If I choose to wear or not to wear a belt it is my business.
NOT the governments.
Same for a helmet.
Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
It's a $60 fine in colo.
Personaly I think it's just a greedy goverment looking to make a quick buck.
just my 2 cents
IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY RIGHTS - GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY (this includes politicians)
quote:But failure to be buckled is a "secondary" offense. Motorists must have committed an initial infraction, such as speeding, to be pulled over and cited.
Is this nationwide? This may sound like a stupid question, but I have never heard of this before. I was riding with 13fister and we passed a hitchhiker on the on ramp to I85. Turns out that "hitchhiker" was a cop in plainclothes with a radio to call the staties who were parked under the bridge. I have also been riding in vehicles and seen squads pass us, turn around, and flash their disco's because "I didn't see you wearing your seatbelts".
Now are these illegal stops? And if so what can you do?
Some people just shouldn't be allowed to breed
it depends on the state some states are now going to primary offense where lots are still secondary
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