There is something that bothers me about; CLICK IT OR TICKET!

[ophie]

Well, honestly, I'm just used to Click it or Ticket by now. It started in my home state (NC) over 10 years ago. It was very successful and spread like crazy.

 

[poohandwendy]

Funny thing... I sometimes forget to zip up but I NEVER forget to buckle up.

 

[Saffron]

Funny thing... I sometimes forget to zip up but I NEVER forget to buckle up.

There are laws about that too you know.

 

[Rock'n Robin]

NJ must always have been picky. DH moved there when he was 17. He sold his 68 cougar because he heard they had strict inspections. He bought a 70 Maverick. In December 81 I was visiting him and we went shopping and there was an ice storm. We were doing all of 10 MPH when a cop passed us and pulled over right in front of us to see about another accident. We rearended him. DH got tickets for his tires not being good enough, his brakes, and his inspection sticker (he was using the one already in the car) but not the moving violation. Yes he was 18 and cash strapped if that is an excuse, but the whole car inspection thing seemed like a racket.
Robin M.

 

[bicker]

First of all, I don't like the way it sounds. If they wanted to promote seat belt safety, surely someone on Madison Ave. could have come up with something better.

I don't know. It's surely catchy, and it has a threatening tone to it, which is very likely what many transgressors (though not you) may need for the message to be internalized.

Now, I feel like, as a taxpayer I am being fleeced again.

Why? If you buckle up, then there's no money changing hands.

But there is something about the intrusiveness of the message that makes me want to talk on my cell phone, unbuckled, while throwing my empty bottled water container, (Ct wanted a bottle deposit) out of the window!!

We all have a little anarchist in us. It's natural. We bristle at the prospect of there needing to be laws to keep society safe, because if everyone were like us, they really wouldn't be needed.

 

[bicker]

And don't we assume that the insurance commissioner in each state is there to protect the citizens. They are obviously there to protect the insurance companies.

Actually, they're there to do both. If they don't protect the insurance companies, then they stop offering insurance in the state. There are many national insurance companies that refuse to offer insurance in my state. How is it better for the citizens to have less choice, and to have less leverage to use one company against another to get a better price?

 

[HookedOnDiz]

I think the ticket here in NJ is $130. and that's per person in the car.

The fine for not wearing your seatbelt is $46 in NJ.

Just a little inside information on how the Click It or Ticket program works... police departments receive monetary grants from the Federal Government to run the program. The police departments use the funds to pay officers overtime to enforce seatbelt violations.

FYI... wearing a seatbelt is literally a lifesaver. As a police officer, I have responded to some hellacious crashes where people walk away without a scratch because they used their seatbelts. I have also seen relatively "minor" crashes where people were ejected from cars or had serious head/neck injuries resulting in death because they were not wearing a seatbelt.

If anything, I would think that inssurance premiums would be lower if all people wore a seatbelt as there would be fewer injury claims.

 

[pogopossum]

$46 in nj, if only... i got one over a year ago, had only slipped mine off minutes before to call my wife to tell her to meet me at the hospital because our ds had broke his arm at grandmas, and the fine with the break that the judge gave was $125, fortunately not a mv in tx so no residual insurance effects. i really only wear mine to avoid the ticket.

in 00 i rolled my pickup completey over while not wearing my seatbelt, and came out with only 17 stitches in my arm, i guess flyiing glass was the culprit, but i had the wheel the whole time and never moved out of my seat, so i guess i'm a bad testamonial for the need to always wear a seatbelt. i admit it was not a front impact, which would have at best banged me into the windshield, but i know that someone was watching over me that day.

 

[Pin Wizard]

It makes me think of everything else that's simplified for possibly those that don't speak the primary language in this country. Things like pictures of everything on the menu, etc. Suppose the non-English speaking people can catch on with this when showed pictures.