Click It Or Ticket Underway
Metro Source News - Tue 11:27 AM 05/22/2012
Law enforcement officers across the Sunflower State want you to buckle up.
The 2012 national Click It Or Ticket enforcement campaign is underway as local police and the Kansas Highway Patrol will be enforcing seat belt use and cracking down on unrestrained drivers and passengers. This year's effort includes the upcoming Memorial Day weekend and runs through June 3rd.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, of the more than 22 thousand people killed in vehicle crashes in 2010, 51-percent were not wearing their seatbelts at the time.
Locally, Salina Police Officers, Saline County Sheriff Deputies, and Kansas State Troopers are all participating in the effort.
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GETALIFE674
Tuesday 22 May 2012 12:33 Report this comment
herein lies the problem with lawenforcement. instead of working in areas to stop crime they put all there efforts into something like this. I for one do not want my tax dollars paying these guys wages so they can write tickets for not wearing a seat belt. The odds are 50/50 even if you do wear a belt and have an accident that you will be killed. I for one will take my chances not wearing one.
tlittle
Tuesday 22 May 2012 14:35 Report this comment
All their efforts? Its a small fraction of their duties dedicated to keep an extra eye out for a violation of the law while they are performing their job and protecting your butt. There isn't one dollar of tax money paid to the agencies for this campaign. It is designed to have officers write tickets for the illegal act during a very small time period of the year to get those like you that would gamble 50% of the time they will not die, to not worry about the death rate ratio, and maybe buckle up because it's a law. Go to the State of Kansas representatives if you do not like the law, they made the law, not one police officer had any part in making it the law, it is their job to enforce the laws the people you vote into office make. Yet, you are so intelligent, you attack the police officer instead of knowing common sense tells you they had NOTHING to do with making that a law. Take your chance, that is your right, of course it is a well thought out chance, "I may not die?" LOL
ksfarmdude
Tuesday 22 May 2012 16:19 Report this comment
as far as I'm concerned this is a total waste of resources we are suppose to wear seat belts or get fined this should be a choice vehicles are much safer these days air bags and other collision features making us safer and they ram seat belts down our throats theres alot of other more serious issues like burglary ,theft, arson, and property being destroyed that should be addressed first all their efforts on seatbelts won't make one difference either way
buckstay
Tuesday 22 May 2012 16:51 Report this comment
I'd really like to Thank tlittle! This persons' completely truthful statements on the subject of laws and the enforcement of them is right on. People take a moment and read this persons' comments.
troy
Tuesday 22 May 2012 18:04 Report this comment
It's the law! Too many drivers today have no idea what the law is for. Doesn't matter if it's no seatbelt, no helmet, speeding, no signal, or the dreaded BOOM, BOOM, BOOM BOOM BA BOOM, BOOM BOOM stereo. All are breaking the law. I hope someday to see the SPD conduct an all out assault on the loud stereos and loud pipes. Not wearing your seatbelt, while still against the law, doesn't bother my family and myself like Boom Boom stereos and loud pipes do. Failure to signal at an intersection is still illegal, but doesn't rattle my house or wake me up. Would be nice if ALL drivers would follow ALL the laws.
RONNIEMUR
Tuesday 22 May 2012 18:15 Report this comment
@Tlittle, correct you are. @Getalife, where did you get your statistics. I have found no data that says. " The odds are 50/50 even if you do wear a belt and have an accident that you will be killed. "
Iamgonnagetu
Tuesday 22 May 2012 18:23 Report this comment
Tlittle lets give the real reason the crooked politicians passed this law. They could care less if tlittle is wearing a seat belt or not and gets killed in a wreck. It was greed and the money the federal government gave the state. The police should be focusing on crime. By the way tlittle there are many many laws on the books they do not enforce.
Iamgonnagetu
Tuesday 22 May 2012 18:25 Report this comment
Hey Ronnie instead of trying to put people down read the article first. Plainly states it jerk.
RONNIEMUR
Tuesday 22 May 2012 18:57 Report this comment
No. It says that of the deaths 51 percent were not wearing seatbelts. I am sure that the death numbers would be lower if some of those had chosen to wear a seatbelt. It doesn't say that if you have an accident you will be killed 50 percent of the time, whether or not you have a seatbelt...
RONNIEMUR
Tuesday 22 May 2012 19:42 Report this comment
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also says that in 2008 seatbelts saved about 13,000 lives. That means that if those 13,000 that were saved had chosen not to wear a seatbelt the percentage of deaths would be more like 71% without seatbelts and 29% with seatbelts. This means that using seatbelts does increase the chance of survival. @ksfarmdude,They also state the fact, which most people already know, that airbags are designed to work with seatbelts not replace them.
IamMe
Tuesday 22 May 2012 23:08 Report this comment
People are upset because someone makes the personal choice to not buckle up? How about we get back to freedom of making personal choices and less government? I could care less if someone makes the choice to not buckle up. Personally, I buckle up. What I care about is less worry about who buckles up or not and more time spent on breaking the crime wave that has hit Salina.
GETALIFE674
Wednesday 23 May 2012 11:29 Report this comment
RONNIE 22,ooo killed and 51% not wearing seat belts that leaves 49% that were wearing their belts dead. how much simplier does it need to be for you.
GETALIFE674
Wednesday 23 May 2012 11:34 Report this comment
IAMME you are completely right this is a personal choice. Just like riding a motorcycle without a helmet which by the way is legal in Kansas it is a person's choice. Government is to much into our private lives and we are to blame for it because of who we elect to office. Even in Salina we elect two people who promised us if elected they would do A or B but once in office they completely do something else. Now thanks to Barb & Aaron we have transgenders in woman's rest rooms and locker rooms.
RONNIEMUR
Wednesday 23 May 2012 19:11 Report this comment
@Getalife, You still don't understand that just because half of those killed had their seatbelts on, that doesn't mean you have a 50/50 chance at death. Read the article again or educate yourself on the NHTSA website.
RONNIEMUR
Wednesday 23 May 2012 19:37 Report this comment
@Iam, accordig to AAA, fatality accidents cost about 6million dommars per accident. Some of which is paid for by the rest of us through taxes fed to emergency responses, traffic delays, wasted gas because of congestion and the cost of insurance in the area (I'm probably missing something in there). It involves the government and their say so when an injury only crash costs 126 thousand and a fatalitycost crash costs 6million. Someone has to enforce common sense if people don't care about themselves enough to buckle up, especially when the rest of plant earth has to pay for it.
AboveTheLaw
Saturday 26 May 2012 21:19 Report this comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T5DBBS3LD0&feature=relmfu
AboveTheLaw
Saturday 26 May 2012 21:24 Report this comment
I wounder if the salon at crawford enjoyed the police department having the people with out seat belts pull into there customer parking. Where it clearly says salon customers only.. O wait Salina Police is above the law..
AboveTheLaw
Saturday 26 May 2012 21:42 Report this comment
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Above-The-Law/398122336896542
RONNIEMUR
Sunday 27 May 2012 09:23 Report this comment
@above the law. State law advises that people should pull to the right and stop. Drivers pull over in parking lots because that's their say choice.