Date: 5/26/2004 7:28:00 PM
From Authorid: 23075
yes it's mandatory hre I live in London, ONtario Canada  |
Date: 5/26/2004 7:32:00 PM
From Authorid: 62246
I usually buckle up and we have the click it or ticket thing here in Arkansas too. I see both sides of this. Yes, a seat belt is uncomfortable, and yes, it is a 2 second inconveniance. But also not only does it help save you , but if you get in a wreck, even if others are wearing their seatbelts, a non-seatbelt-wearer can actually inflict death upon them. Many times, the person who didn't buckle was the cause of other people's death rather than the wreck itself. This is because they are bouncing all around the car and hitting the other passengers. As soon as I learned that, I started buckling up. Hurting myself doesn't much scare me, but hurting others does!  |
Date: 5/26/2004 7:36:00 PM
From Authorid: 9713
Yep, it's a law here in Michigan. And it should be, as long as it doesn't include the backseat for those of us over 16. If I'm on a long trip, and I want to lay down and sleep, let me! But yes, i always buckle up when driving and in the passenger seat. and of course, if i'm with a driver who..well, could be better lol  |
Date: 5/26/2004 7:36:00 PM
From Authorid: 49091
Yeah we have "Click It Or Ticket" here too.  |
Date: 5/26/2004 7:37:00 PM
From Authorid: 57579
yup we have that here in oklahoma  |
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Date: 5/26/2004 7:38:00 PM
From Authorid: 23075
oh yeah I won't even start my car until everyone in it is buckled up |
Date: 5/26/2004 7:39:00 PM
From Authorid: 61977
I think it is becoming a national law to wear your seatbelt. I really am not to sure though. Every state I have lived in has the click it or ticket law. I personally wear a seatbelt. I feel naked in the car without one. On occasion I will not wear one in the backseat. Its a habit that I do not even think about anymore. Good post and good question there Rose. HUGE ((((((((((((HUGS))))))))), (Mother Love)  |
Date: 5/26/2004 7:42:00 PM
From Authorid: 10722
I buckle up, but to make it mandatory (as in click it or ticket) is absolutely ridiculous. It's just another ploy for departments to make more money.  |
Date: 5/26/2004 7:44:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 20750
I agree AX!  |
Date: 5/26/2004 7:46:00 PM
From Authorid: 7952
It is in both Sydney and Utah   |
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Date: 5/26/2004 7:48:00 PM
From Authorid: 49091
I always do...my mom yells at us if we dont. Then we have to hear the 15 min story of how her cuzin died because he wasnt wearing a seat belt. Its a good point, but I've memorized that story so many dang times! |
Date: 5/26/2004 7:55:00 PM
From Authorid: 44960
Its the Law here in Alabama, Its either "Click-it or Ticket", well write me up. (((PrissieHuggzz)))  |
Date: 5/26/2004 8:08:00 PM
From Authorid: 51587
Yes it is here...and yes I think it should..and yes I do..lol i feel naked with out my seat belt.lol *huggs*  |
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Date: 5/26/2004 8:10:00 PM
From Authorid: 23075
Ms. Priss....do behave and stop making those lovey dovey eyes at all the good looking lawmen. LOL |
Date: 5/26/2004 8:12:00 PM
From Authorid: 53836
yes, clicking it has been one of them auto-pilot habits of mine since I was very young...I feel naked in a car without it! Click it Y'all! BTW, it's been law here for a while, but now they have a commercial with some cops singin' about it, so yeh   |
Date: 5/26/2004 8:13:00 PM
From Authorid: 21867
In NZ you must wear a safety belt...there are some exceptions, but they are few and the person needs to be 'certified' to drive without a buckled up safety belt. Personally I simply CAN'T drive without one...it just feels too unnatural not to be buckled up into my seat. And umm..hehe...trust me...in my car ya really wanna be secured firmly into the seat...or ya might just got flying sideways through the corners  Peace,  |
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Date: 5/26/2004 8:14:00 PM
From Authorid: 53836
heheee, Heather and I feel the same way about our seat belts |
Date: 5/26/2004 8:14:00 PM
From Authorid: 34487
Yep, it's the law here in Michigan too.  |
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Date: 5/26/2004 8:16:00 PM
From Authorid: 21867
...and ahhhh...having seen the results of more than a few MVAs...if you don't buckle up, then you really NEED to see what kinda mess results when a human body goes tearing through a windscreen or bouncing around the cabin of a car...it ain't pretty...not at all. |
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Date: 5/26/2004 8:17:00 PM
From Authorid: 34487
As for my opinion on whether or not it should be a law...I feel it should be MANDATORY for children or any passenger under the age of 18 in every state. Once an adult, I feel if a person doesn't want to ensure their own safety it's their choice. This for me is basically just another way for the insurance companies to lose less money and for the cops to bring in more cash for writing tickets. |
Date: 5/26/2004 8:23:00 PM
From Authorid: 12341
Its the law here. I do it automatically.  |
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Date: 5/26/2004 8:23:00 PM
From Authorid: 21867
But yes...it is every drivers right to be treated like an Adult...and to excise their rights of choice...coz its much better to have choice - and hey, whats a lil Plastic Surgery when they have to removed pieces of the windscreen from your face...or rebuild your dental work due to slamming mouth-first into the steering wheel...or reset those popped/flailing ribs from crunching against the dashboard...or scrape bits of you off the road coz you shredded yourself going clean out the window and grinding along the asphalt. As long as you exericed your right to choose. Peace, |
Date: 5/26/2004 8:36:00 PM
From Authorid: 53052
always always always buckle up!! i cant trust the drivers on the road  |
Date: 5/26/2004 8:57:00 PM
From Authorid: 34912
It's a law in all states. It's a dumb law. Wearing a seatbelt is a good idea, but you shouldn't be forced to. You shouldn't be pulled over for it.  |
Date: 5/26/2004 8:57:00 PM
From Authorid: 53900
I do buckle up because I have seen first hand what not buckling up can do. My son's father used to drive a tow truck and I went on several calls with him to pick up accident vehicles and saw once where a child not wearing his belt was ejected from a vehicle and had another vehicle land on top of him. One of my best friends was ejected from her vehicle on a major interstate here in Florida also had she been in a belt she would have more then likely survived. I am kinda mixed on whether it should be a law I do feel it should be because it does save lives but at the same time if you do not want to wear a belt you should not have to  |
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Date: 5/26/2004 9:07:00 PM
From Authorid: 53900
Oh yea and I feel it should be mandatory for parents to make sure not only are their children buckled or in a safty seat but restrained properly. If they are not restrained properly it is almost as bad as not being restrained at all. It makes me physically ill to be driving down the road and see a car with a child bouncing around the seat with no belt on. The parent may not think they are going to be in an accident but if they were chances are their child will either be severly injured or dead and all because the child was not restrained |
Date: 5/26/2004 9:13:00 PM
From Authorid: 55009
click it or ticket is a nation wide thing, anyone in america has that law... sad thing is they only talk about the possitives of seatbelts, my dad knew these kids that went to his school, one buckled on wasn't, they crashed into a big tree and the unbuckled driver was thrown to safty while the other was trapped, both were knocked unconscience but one burned while the other only had stitches and minor road rash. bad thing when they don't bother to mention the bruising, crushed rib cages, and cuts that can also happen while in an accident from seatbelts...  |
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Date: 5/26/2004 9:31:00 PM
From Authorid: 53900
Joshie lots of things that can save lives can also take lives(like medications and immunizations for example) that doesnt mean that we should not use them and in the case of seat belts enforce their use. |
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Date: 5/26/2004 9:41:00 PM ( Chatmin-FA )
If I don't buckle up when I'm driving I feel weird. We have click it or ticket it also. |
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Date: 5/26/2004 9:42:00 PM ( Chatmin-FA )
In New Hampshire if you are over the age of 18 years old you don't have to buckle up. |
Date: 5/26/2004 9:45:00 PM
From Authorid: 62588
Click it or ticket is the law in Ohio to, but I don't agree with it. My parents owned a towing company since before I was born and when I was eight, my dad was in the news because of it. He got a sherrif's tow one night, and the car was on fire. Apperently some kids were coming home from prom and they had been drinking. They saw some friends walking home and stopped to pick them up. Well, there was a wreck and the car was an old one. The kids in the back seat had put on their seat belts and couldn't get them undone. Like I said it was an older car, so I don't know if they couldn't figure it out or if the seatbelts were stuck. My dad got there before the fire was out, and I guess he saw one of the kids' arms smash against the back window, trying to get out. He saw them pull the crispy bodies out of the car, and he was open with sharing the story (not with us - we were too young, but we were there when he told the story). It still freaks me out, and I cringe every time I put on my seatbelt. I know that this isn't the norm, but it freaks me out. I hate buckling the kids into their car seats for fear of not being able to get to them if the car flips, even though I realize that this was a freak thing.  |
Date: 5/26/2004 9:54:00 PM
From Authorid: 16845
Yes it's the law..  |
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Date: 5/26/2004 9:55:00 PM
From Authorid: 16845
'click it or ticket' they say |
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Date: 5/26/2004 10:05:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 20750
Wowser! |
Date: 5/26/2004 11:01:00 PM
From Authorid: 38683
I can't stay in the vehicle if I can't buckle up! Too scary to think about it! But yes we get fined if we're not wearing ours over here in B.C. Love Always,  |
Date: 5/26/2004 11:12:00 PM
From Authorid: 59876
it is the law here in california although i have only begun to see the click it or ticket campaign in the last couple of days. i hate seat belts.  |
Date: 5/27/2004 12:37:00 AM
From Authorid: 24003
Yes and yes  |
Date: 5/27/2004 1:40:00 AM
From Authorid: 46527
Yes it is mandatory and since the law has been that way many many lives have been saved.  |
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Date: 5/27/2004 1:41:00 AM
From Authorid: 46527
It's actually been the law here for about 20 years. When it started the campaign was 'Clunk, click every trip'. |
Date: 5/27/2004 1:49:00 AM
From Authorid: 28190
Yes, and I wear my seatbelt religiously. I think I am even shorter than you, but I feel safer wearing my seatbelt because I know they work.................... One way I can prove that is when I was 11, I was riding with my sister and she was on a different seizure medication at the time that made her lose her attention at times(we didnt know this at the time). Anyways we were going out to dinner with mom, and mom was in her vehicle with her friend, and I was riding in Tamara's car with her. We were in a turning lane, and Tamara didnt notice that it was one of the lights that let oncoming traffic come through. Tamara didnt notice this because she thought the jeep would slow down, she went to turn and the jeep hit us going about 50 Mph. It impacted about a foot or less from my door, which I thank god, because if it had hit right into the door, I probably wouldnt be here writing this. The wreck sent his rag topped jeep flipping about 4 times and it skid another 30 feet before stopping and our car just spun in circles. I was bruised and cut up pretty bad from the glass shattering, and had some internal bruising as well, but the seatbelt saved my life. If I weren't buckled up I would have flown out the window or worse out the passenger window. So, in most cases they do save lives, but it should be up to the person, whether they wear them or not. But, its the law. *hugs*  |
Date: 5/27/2004 2:04:00 AM
From Authorid: 49348
here in australia it is law, there a big fines for not doing so, and having points taken from your licence. Its weird that you dont have to over there in some states  |
Date: 5/27/2004 4:11:00 AM
From Authorid: 32133
yeah they call it click it or ticket here in massachusets too lol.  |
Date: 5/27/2004 4:20:00 AM
From Authorid: 62104
Maybe you should get a booster seat..no, I'm just kidding but a pillow under your bum might help raise you up a little. It is against the law here to not wear your seatbelt..our slogen here is "Buckle up...or suffer the concequences". I wouldn't get into a car without one on anyway cause I just wouldn't feel safe.  |
Date: 5/27/2004 5:00:00 AM
From Authorid: 18527
I don't think they should force you to buckle up either... who does it affect adversly if you wreck and aren't wearing your belt? Only you (and your family). I think its "thinning the herd" so to speak. Of course I always wear mine...  |
Date: 5/27/2004 5:07:00 AM
From Authorid: 42945
very heavy fine over here and loss of points that could eventually mean losing your license if you dont buckle up...I'm short also hun and I have to sit on a fairly high cushion, but I'm comfortable wearing a seat belt, if someone in my car hasnt got their seat belt buckled up it shows on the dash board of the car and I tell everyone that the car wont move until they are all buckled up....hugs Grammy  |
Date: 5/27/2004 7:01:00 AM
From Authorid: 19869
please dont ever drive by me if ur not wearing your seatbelt... i dont wanna die due to ur lack of resposibility...  |
Date: 5/27/2004 7:39:00 AM
From Authorid: 62624
In Texas, it is a law. I agree that everyone should wear a seatbelt. If by chance I don't have mine on, I feel VERY unsafe and will buckle it on.  |
Date: 5/27/2004 8:10:00 AM
From Authorid: 19613
best method ever to get you to wear your seatbelt; my dad's car has this alarm that detects if someone is sitting in the driver or front passenger seat. if so, this really REALLY annoying beeping starts up and continues getting louder and mroe annoying, until you buckle up.  |
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Date: 5/27/2004 8:16:00 AM
From Authorid: 59876
we just got our 61 corvair van running. it has room for nine, but only three seat belts. that mean when we go to lake shasta next week, i won't have one. being an older car, that doesn't voilate any laws. doesn't bother me a bit. |
Date: 5/27/2004 9:03:00 AM
From Authorid: 11097
Yes! Here in New York it is the law, and I always wear my seat-belt I travel a lot between New York and Connecticut and they have signs posted all over the highway to remind everyone to buckle up....lol, I am also very short, 5'1, but I do feel safer wearing them cool post,  |
Date: 5/27/2004 9:42:00 AM
From Authorid: 17081
It's mandatory here in PA. They just passed a law here where you no longer have to wear a motorcycle helmet. Doesn't make sense. You are allowed to ride a bike without a helmet, but you aren't allowed to ride in a car without a seatbelt on. Kids under 40 pounds have to be in a carseat. I personally don't buckle up, but I make my kids buckle up every time.  |
Date: 5/27/2004 9:59:00 AM
From Authorid: 24732
Yes, it is a law in Texas. It depends on which vehicles I drive, in one of my trucks the seatbelt is messed up so I only put it on if I'm driving in town. It should not be a law, but I doubt it will go away because of the profit the state makes from the tickets.  |
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Date: 5/27/2004 7:15:00 PM
From Authorid: 21867
Kethria...I know you said you always wear your safetybelt but to answer the question of who does it affect if you have a decent crash and aren't wearing your safety belt: Umm...every other taxpayer who will collectively have to foot the bill for the Emergency Services that will need to attend *thus tying them up for the time, when they could be attending some other incident*, any other medical services provided, in some cases Insurance Premiums and general trauma to those directly or indirectly affected like family, friends, witnesses etc. Peace, |
Date: 5/27/2004 9:54:00 PM
From Authorid: 19460
we have click it or ticket too in GA. I dont like to wear my seatbelt cause it is annoying when it rubbs on my neck and chest! i think if you are under 18 it should be mandatory, but over 18 you are an adult and are supposed to be able to make your own choices.  |
Date: 5/28/2004 7:22:00 PM
From Authorid: 52489
It's required here in California. But even if it wasn't, I'd do it anyway. I learned to drive in a car that wouldn't start if you were buckled, so it's a habit with me. Also, my grandparents were saved by seat belts when they were in an accident.  |
Date: 5/30/2004 8:31:00 PM
From Authorid: 54968
Isn't it mandatory everywhere? lol  |
