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Title: ‘Click It or Ticket’ campaign will take place May 20-June 2 (Texas drivers!!)
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North Texas e-News
URL Source: http://ntxe-news.com/artman/publish/article_83007.shtml
Published: May 19, 2013
Author: Texas A&M??
Post Date: 2013-05-19 12:12:31 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 57
Comments: 3
COLLEGE STATION — This year’s Texas Department of Public Safety Click It or Ticket campaign is scheduled for May 20-June 2, which includes Memorial Day Weekend, said Bev Kellner, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service program specialist — passenger safety, College Station. “AgriLife Extension is again actively supporting this important public safety initiative,” Kellner said. “We want to help bring attention to the campaign, as well as ‘inform and transform’ those people who are still not convinced of the importance of seat belt use.” During the campaign, extra law enforcement authorities will be on the roads enforcing the seat belt and child restraint laws in an effort to save lives, she noted. ((bullshit, it's all about the money!!)) “This year marks the 45th anniversary of the enactment of legislation making it mandatory for passenger vehicles to have safety belts,” Kellner said. ”You’d think that after so many years of having seat belts standard in vehicles, buckling your seat belt before driving off would be second nature, but for many people it’s not.” She added that Texas passed its first seat belt law in 1985. ((And we were told that we'd never be pulled over JUST for not wearing seatbelts)) “Over the years, seat belt laws in Texas and nationally have prevented millions of deaths and injuries. And while most motorists buckle up, some groups – especially pickup truck drivers and their passengers, teens and people who live in rural areas — are still not convinced,” Kellner said. “In fact, crash data from the Texas Department of Transportation shows there has been an 11 percent increase in traffic fatalities from 2011 to 2012.” ((Every time an SUV packed with 26 mexicons rolls over that spikes the statistics)) Wearing a seat belt is the single most important thing that drivers and passengers can do to help survive a crash, she said. Yet in Texas last year, 45 percent of those killed in crashes were reported as being unrestrained. “According to a recent study conducted in 18 Texas cities by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, only 78.4 percent of the state’s teens wear their seat belts,” Kellner said. “And in rural Texas, where most fatalities occur, seat belt use is also lower than average.” ((Rural Texas is where the human-smugglers crash and wipe out numerous illegal invaders)) Kellner said pickup truck drivers and their passengers are often under the false impression that their larger vehicle will protect them in a crash. “Yet, pickup trucks are twice as likely to roll over than passenger cars and pickup crashes can be especially serious – even deadly – due to their tendency to roll over and for unbelted occupants to be thrown from the vehicle,” she said. Teens are inexperienced drivers and are subject to distractions in the vehicle, Kellner added. And while seat belts are lifesavers for young drivers and their passengers, they are not being consistently worn on every trip. “The Click It or Ticket campaign has been successful in bringing Texas’s seat belt rate from 76.1 percent in 2002, when it started, to 94 percent today,” she said. “It is estimated the campaign can be credited with saving almost 3,700 lives and preventing more than 50,000 injuries in Texas.” ((How much money was raised for Texas???)) Since 2009, Texas law requires all vehicle occupants – front and back — to buckle up 100 percent of the time. And children younger than 8 years old, unless taller than 4’9”, must be in a child restraint. Fines for seat belt violations can range from $25 to $250. ((If it were about saving lives no fine would be levied, just a stern roadside lecture would suffice)) Enforcement will increase this month, and drivers and passengers not wearing seat belts will face fines of up to $200, plus court costs, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. ((Pay up, sucka's!!)) “Motorists can save money and, more importantly, save lives by buckling up on every trip,” Kellner said. Poster Comment: Yeah, Texas just blew a hole in its' budget after the Texas-Israel Day fiasco and now we need to pick up the slack.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Thanks for the clarification on this money-grab event. Once I discovered the Loopo device: Easy to use! Provides additional slack for your driving comfort. Prevents wrinkling of clothing from your seat belt. Great for long trips. Fits on standard and automatic seat belts to keep the belt from choking me, I don't mind buckling. $12 for four on Amazon - free shipping if you're a Prime member. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
That's the problem with my seatbelt: it's a self-tightening device that eventually strangles me. I'll check into the Loopo, I need something to keep my seatbelt from constricting me like a jew squeezing my wallet :)
#2. To: Lod (#1)
-Alex Kurtagic
#3. To: X-15 (#2)
Mrs.L likes it 'cause it keeps the belt from mashing down her puppies. Another thing that works is the GIANT alligator-like paper clips that hold a bunch of paper together...really just anything that keeps the belt from fully retracting. A teeenie pair of ViseGrips would work. But check out the Loopos, they're top-rated and plenty cheap for the relief they give.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
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