Seat belts

==Background ==
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* Click It or Ticket, an immoral campaign, editorial, May, 2006 -- reposted here as Seat belts-plank-Williams
==Insights==
===Legislation to Strengthen PA Seatbelt Law===
====Source: by KYW's Sonia Rincon, March 25, 2006====
If you're not wearing a seatbelt you can't get pulled over and ticketed in Pennsylvania, unless you're also speeding or making an illegal turn or something else. But a new bill in the state senate would change that.
Everyone knows seatbelts can prevent tragedies. "My husband was rear-ended once by a big truck and he had his seatbelt on and his life was saved," says State Senator Connie Williams of Montgomery county who wants to step up the penalty for not wearing one.
"What my legislation would do would make it a primary offense. Which means police could stop you if they saw you not wearing your seatbelt."
The bill's in committee, and Senator Williams is concerned it may get stuck there, after speaking to one of the chairmen.
"He indicated he was not inclined to put any pressure on the majority chairman to move it because people in Pennsylvania don't like to be told what to be doing in their cars."
According to the state department of transportation, 578 people died in 2004 who weren't buckled up. Triple-A says two thirds of its members in Pennsylvania and Delaware would like to see a primary seatbelt law.
== Seat Belts for Adults==
== Seat Belts for Children ==
== Seat Belts for dogs ==
PA Rep. Tom Stevenson has taken a boy's idea, Doggy Seat Belts, To Harrisburg.
===Click It or Ticket in PA===
Click It or Ticket, the nationally-recognized campaign aimed at getting all of us to buckle up on the road, will be in full force in PA this, 2006, Memorial Day weekend. PA State Police (PSP) report an increase in seatbelt use from 82 percent in 2004 to 83.3 percent in 2005. Yet nearly one-in-five occupants are not properly restrained while traveling and unbuckled fatalities increased from 577 in 2004 to 648 in 2005.
Ejection and hitting a windshield routinely kill unbuckled drivers and passengers, according to the PA State Police. Traffic safety checkpoints will be conducted around the state to educate the public about traffic laws, as will child passenger safety seat checkups focused on teaching parents the proper installation and use of child safety seats.
Don’t wait for a safety seat checkup. Visit one of the PSP child safety seat inspection stations being conducted through June 4, 2006 and ensure your child’s safety: http://www.psp.state.pa.us/psp/cwp/view.asp?A=310&Q=174835
PSP Announces "Click It or Ticket" Effort: http://www.psp.state.pa.us/psp/cwp/view.asp?a=11&q=174891
==Links==
* Motorcycle helmet law