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Title: Judge sentenced 5-year-old violator to court traffic class
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URL Source: http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/educat ... urt_traffic_class_200906042312
Published: Jun 6, 2009
Author: Maria Medina
Post Date: 2009-06-06 08:31:33 by Disgusted
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Youngster completes court traffic class Judge sentenced 5-year-old violator Updated: Friday, 05 Jun 2009, 10:55 AM MDT Published : Thursday, 04 Jun 2009, 9:20 PM MDT Reporter: Maria Medina LOS LUNAS (KRQE) - Among the 13 drivers sentenced by a judge to attend Avilio Chavez's traffic safety class Thursday was a Los Lunas boy still 10 years too young for a learner's permit. Magistrate Judge Buddy Sanchez sentenced David Kirk-Peet, 5, to take the class along with his mother after the boy refused to wear his seat belt. Earlier this year an officer spotted Kirk-Peet unbuckling his seat belt and ticketed his mother, Jessica Peet, for failing to restrain her child. She said she asked the officer to speak to her son about the importance of seat belts. Peet said her son constantly removed his buckle despite her persistence. But the mother soon landed in Sanchez's courtroom to face the ticket. There she told him the same story, and this time the judge spoke to Kirk-Peet as well as sentenced him to traffic safety school. Violators are sentenced to Chavez's class which he held for the first time this week. He'll teach the class every month to drivers who get caught without a seat belt or to parents and their children who refused to buckle up. Chavez said he not only hopes his students actually learn the safety of seat belts but understand that using them is required by state the law. It's a lesson he wants everyone to learn no matter what age. In Kirk-Peet's case, even if he's not yet in kindergarten and can't yet reach the pedals. This time, with a traffic certificate in hand, Peet's son promised to buckle up. "You want to get safe," said Kirk-Peet. His mother told News 13 that her son has worn a seat belt ever since she got that ticket.
Poster Comment: David Kirk-Peet after completing the seatbelt class.
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