Des Moines, Iowa —Motorists who decide not to wear their seat belts – beware. The 2012 National Click It or Ticket seat belt enforcement mobilization kicks off May 21, 2012. Iowa’s city, county, and state law enforcement are teaming up with highway safety advocates across the country to help save more lives by enforcing seat belt laws around the clock.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) data shows in 2010, 61 percent of the 10,647 passenger vehicle occupants killed during nighttime (6 p.m. to 6 a.m.) motor vehicle traffic crashes were not wearing their seat belts. The daytime, unbelted traffic fatality rate is 42 percent.
In 2011, there were 360 motorists killed in crashes on Iowa roadways, which was a 66 year low. However, 115 of those killed were not wearing their seat belts.
“Too many drivers and passengers on the road at night are not wearing their seat belts, and it can all too often end in tragedy,” said Colonel Patrick Hoye with the Iowa State Patrol. “Our goal is to save more lives, so Iowa’s law enforcement agencies will be out enforcing seat belt and other laws around the clock.”
Seat belt use saves thousands of lives each year. The Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau and its law enforcement partners are helping spread the word. NHTSA statistics show that in 2010 alone, seat belts saved roughly 12,546 lives nationwide.
While this year’s Click It or Ticket enforcement mobilization runs from May 21 through June 3, 2012, motorists should know officers are enforcing seat belt law year-round. Iowa’s seat belt law has been in effect for nearly 26 years.
For more on the national Click It or Ticket mobilization, please visit www.nhtsa.gov.
Peter L has merit in what he says. In this day and age of shrinking jobs, and extreme competition for those looking for a place to land, it makes sense to control what many people feel is a quality of life issue.
Residents and businesses suffer when inattention is given to loud and recklessly driven vehicles in town. It becomes a black eye, which no prospective client looking to settle can ignore.
Ask yourself in all honesty, why on earth would someone invest in a community when there are so many who don’t care about their fellow citizens. They dump their trash in the streets, drive recklessly, cover up normal conversations with their noise, and make others clean up after them when they mow grass.
If I were investing in a community, and saw that, I would run, as fast as I can back to the airport, never to return. And don’t think for a moment that these negative observations are kept to one’s self. At meetings, conventions, and so on, people talk.
So run your vehicle without proper exhaust with utter disregard for others. Squeal your tires at a stop light to your heart’s content. Toss your garbage out the window at will. And sooner or later, if the few available Police Officers see you, and are not running ragged from call to call, might ticket you.
But as sure as I am typing, these kinds of curb appeal are not on the radar of those in leadership. They think the dog and pony show alone will bring in jobs. This points to both Peters being correct.
Maybe you could excersize your 5th Ammendment now? Your constant crying on this subject is triping my whiny bitch alarm. Hike up your skirt, pull your thong out of your ass and quit being that crabby ass old bastard that’s got nothing better to do while he’s waiting to die other than bitch about how everyone is inconveniencing YOU. There’s NO doubt in my mind that you are an irritation to someone living next to you just the same.
Peter, don’t you really have anything else to bitch about? Move to the f#cking country already where it is a hell of a lot more quiet. I just want to let the Harley CACKLE while rounding your corner at about 3AM. lol. Your bitching is JUST as annoying.