Sheriff's Office Issues 177 Seat Belt Tickets
Jeff Garretson - Wed 11:48 AM 06/06/2012
Deputies also made two DUI arrests during the program.
The Saline County Sheriff's Office participated in the 2012 national Click It Or Ticket seat belt enforcement campaign between May 21st and June 2nd.
According to Sheriff Glen Kochanowski, deputies made 224 stops during the Special Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) and wrote 177 tickets for seat belt violations.
Sheriff Kochanowski tells KSAL News the numbers were a bit unexpected, "I'm surprised that after all the media attention given to the Click It Or Ticket program - that people are still not buckling up," he said.
The Sheriff's Office also made two DUI arrests during the program as well as issuing 2 speeding tickets.
Deputies handed out 22 additional citations for vehicle violations.
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Iamgonnagetu
Wednesday 6 June 2012 12:57 Report this comment
Here we go again with the sheriffs office bragging on the tickets they wrote. I pose the same question I did when the PD was bragging, how many criminal cases did you solve during that same time period? Also how many new crimes were committed? Also how many tickets were wrote to farmers with oversize equipment driving down the roads. How many grain trucks ticketed for using roads posted that they could not use? Crime should be the the foremost for any law enforcement agency.
Iamgonnagetu
Wednesday 6 June 2012 13:04 Report this comment
Also more people are against the buckling up law. Those that wish to buckle up do but many want to make that decision for themselves. Stats show its a 50/50 deal whether you die or not if you do not use seat belts or if you do. The bottom line is many people do not like laws like this pushed on them. Let the people of Kansas vote on it and the law will be gone.
WhoCares
Wednesday 6 June 2012 13:57 Report this comment
I agree with you iamgonna.... There was a weigh station in Maryland that had a sign up nearby that read... "There were 667 deaths in Maryland in 2005 due to crashes, 246 were not wearing their seatbelts".... Seems to me, chance of death increases when you wear your seatbelt...
idoh82w84you
Wednesday 6 June 2012 15:27 Report this comment
Show me deputy that would write a combine driver a ticket and I'll show you two people with no common sense. This is Kansas, if you can't deal with seasonal farm equipment on the road - stay in the house.
Iamgonnagetu
Wednesday 6 June 2012 17:17 Report this comment
Idoh so farmers should be able to break laws because this is harvest time in Kansas? Maybe you would like to tell this to a family who loses a loved one because they crashed into a combine that stretched across 2 lanes of a highway. Laws need to be enforced all the time.
ROCKER
Wednesday 6 June 2012 18:28 Report this comment
IF A PERSON IS BUSY RUNNIN ERRANDS ,AND PERSON CAN BUCKLE ,UNNBUCKLE ,THEIR SEAT BELT PROBLY 20 OR MORE TIME A DAY ,KINDA OF GET OLD AFTER A WHILE ,,,THATS WHY SEAT BELTS SUCK ,,,
idoh82w84you
Wednesday 6 June 2012 18:51 Report this comment
8-1911. Permits for oversize or overweight vehicles (f). No permit shall be required to authorize the moving or operating upon any highway of farm tractors, combines, fertilizer dispensing equipment or other farm machinery, or machinery being transported to be used for terracing or soil or water conservation work upon farms, or vehicles owned by counties, cities and other political subdivisions of the state, except that this sentence shall not: (1) Exempt trucks owned by counties, cities and other political subdivisions specifically designed and equipped and used exclusively for garbage, refuse or solid waste disposal operations from the maximum gross weight limitations contained in the table in K.S.A. 8-1909, and amendments thereto; or (2) authorize travel on interstate highways. I rest my case - this is Kansas, use some common sense.
Iamgonnagetu
Wednesday 6 June 2012 21:28 Report this comment
You can rest your case all you want but these vehicles need to have over size banners on it and have a car before it and one behind it. Another statue states no vehicle can be operated on Kansas highways no wider than 8' 6".
ksfarmdude
Wednesday 6 June 2012 22:27 Report this comment
Iamgonna you sound like a classic example of a moron of course farm equipment is big these days I'm sure a farmer would have people drive vehicles ahead and behind a combine with overwidth headers they are big so they can cut more acres in a day Duh! what part of harvesting don't you understand just hope your not talking smack with your mouth full
Iamgonnagetu
Thursday 7 June 2012 09:26 Report this comment
Ksfarmdud you have the wrong name should be ksmoron and evidently don't know Jack of what's going on. A generation ago farmers removed the headers from combines and they were not as large as they are today. Time and again you see these going down the highway spread across to lanes no car ahead or behind. These people just do not give a darn about anyone else or the possibility of injuring someone or killing them. Many times there are dirt roads they can take but refuse to do so. They are breaking the law and should be ticketed.