MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Police could stop drivers in Wisconsin for not wearing a seat belt under a proposal that has cleared its first hurdle in the Legislature.
The budget-writing committee on Thursday approved Gov. Jim Doyle's proposal.
Under current law, violators can be ticketed for not wearing a seat belt only if they are stopped for another violation. Twenty six other states allow police to make a stop solely for a seat belt violation.
If the change is made in Wisconsin before July 1, the state will get $15 million in federal transportation money.
I always wear mine, so I'm not worried. I don't even think about it most of the time because I'm so used to it. Only time it bothers me is if the seatbelt happens to be scratching me in the neck, depending on what I'm wearing.
Had i been wearing my seatbelt on April 14th 2005, i would not have been thrown from my vehicle & would have ended up with half my engine & stearing column sticking out the back of my face (those airbags never had a chance)... I get paranoid when i wear a seatbelt. My kids wear theirs, so they have nothing to worry about... not sure that the law will be enough to make me wear one, i cant handle feeling like i will be trapped if (lord forbid) something like that were to happen again.
yes i know being thrown & surviving isn't common, neither is half an engine pinned to the headrest after the accident, but it has happened (to me) and once you have lived it, it kinda freaks ya out, well it does to me anyway. My mom would be dead today if not for her seatbelt after an accident, but i just feel stuck, i dunno, i see a bunch of tickets on my otherwise clean record real soon lol
I never wear a seat belt and my feeling is: insurance companies can refuse to pay based on you not wearing a seat belt IMO but legislating that you must wear a seat belt goes against my rights so far as I'm concerned.
I never wear a seat belt and my feeling is: insurance companies can refuse to pay based on you not wearing a seat belt IMO but legislating that you must wear a seat belt goes against my rights so far as I'm concerned.
I always wear a seat belt when riding or operating a motor vehicle, providing there are seat belts to wear. I agree that legislating a persons personal safety is wrong. Our liberties are being slowly taken from us.
It's the "How To Cook A Frog" scenario. If you toss a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will just jump out of the pot. Put the frog in a pot of cool water, let it swim around for awhile. The frog will swim around, lovin' the cool water and not noticing that the water is getting warmer. Soon, the water will be getting hot, limbering and softening the frog's muscles until it's too late and the frog can't jump out of the pot.
Hmmm.......... I have always worn a seat belt, even when it wasn't a "law". Ever since driver's ed in 1973! I have been in 2 wrecks, none as serious as what Latina has mentioned, so I really cannot comment on that. I have only had Fender benders at only 45 mph. Although, one I was in, the other driver wasn't wearing hers and she was severly injured, I was fine.
WHO KNOWS??? Recently there was a bad wreck that I witnessed and the people were thrown and killed (a drunk driver hit them), they were not wearing seat belts. The drunk guy WAS and he survived w/o a scratch.
I just feel very strange if I don't have mine on. And no one rides with me w/o one on either, and that was before the law was passed here in FL. What really makes me wonder though.......Florida does NOT have a law requiring helmets for motorcyclists! Now, THAT is odd.......
My Sig-other even makes fun of me when I put mine on to move my car in the driveway! HA! I just don't even think about it, it's automatic. (and I HATE the beeping sound until I click it!)
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Latina......I think I can speak for everyone on here, we are happy you ARE here! You were very lucky.
My best friend Wendy was killed 2 years ago, she was not wearing her seat belt. They said if she would have been.........so, I guess I am more for the wearing of them. Sorry. That hit too close to home.
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The way I drive, I need mine on. Otherwise I'd be slid over to the passenger side.
I'm like a racecar driver.
Seriously though. This is just another revenue generator by Doyle. We're getting like New York and California that way. Just wait 'till some of the other stuff he wants comes to light.
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The way I drive, I need mine on. Otherwise I'd be slid over to the passenger side.
I'm like a racecar driver.
Seriously though. This is just another revenue generator by Doyle. We're getting like New York and California that way. Just wait 'till some of the other stuff he wants comes to light.
The stability factor. That's why I wear mine. Ever wonder why race car drivers are harnessed in to the cockpit of the car...it's a stability factor.
I always wear mine. Anyone that rides with me needs to buckle up or I don't move the vehicle, no kidding I'll sit there till everyone buckles up. One time I sat for 5 minutes till they gave in and buckled up.
Shame on me; I don't wear them, although Petunia gives me chin music all the time about it. I to have seen far to many car accidents where the people were trapped because of their belts. My mother tried the not moving the car one day, I just got out & took my own car. They sell those stupid seatbeltcutter/window breakers for a reason, if you are able to find it!
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It's not the big failures I mind so much, it's the constant pitter patter of little defeats.
but legislating that you must wear a seat belt goes against my rights so far as I'm concerned.
I sometimes think like this...as a parent I make rules not because I want to be a control freak or take rights away from my children. I make rules mainly for their safety or for a very good reason to help them in one way or another. As did our parents when we were children.
Kinda like the laws as adults we face. Many are put in place to keep us safe or to help us.
Kids hate the rules and want to break them but we enforce them to protect them and to show how the rules are important so we can all get along. As adults it seems many need the laws to keep order, to keep safe, for protection.
Yet I read all the time how if a 'new' law comes around then people get upset because it's messing with their rights.
Somehow I can't see lawmakers sitting around making up laws, just because they want to rule over us, they make laws simply to protect, to keep us safer, for the good of the people.
I for one have no problem with a law stating I need to buckle up. Maybe if people used more common sense and bucked up from the beginning the law makers wouldn't have to bother making this law but so many people just like little kids need someone to remind them to keep safe. Hence the law being put out there.
I love the fact that my van will not stop beeping until I buckle up. So many times it would be easier to just jump in to run around the block to my daughters house and not buckle but that annoying beeping keeps me in check. lol
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That hit too close to home.
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