Monday, February 23, 2009

IF You Are A

Young male driving in from Chadwick with your date sitting next to you in your pickup Wednesday night.......You are probably going to get pulled over.
From "The City"

Nearly one in four Missourians still fail to regularly wear their safety belts when driving or riding in a motor vehicle.

Among those least likely to buckle up: young males, pickup truck drivers and their passengers, people who live in rural areas, and nighttime drivers.

Members of the Springfield Police Department are joining with law enforcement February 25th for an aggressive "Click It or Ticket" mobilization to crack down on Missouri’s safety belt law violators in an attempt to reduce highway fatalities.

Failure to regularly wear a safety belt can be deadly. In 2007, a driver in a Missouri traffic crash had a 1 in 32 chance of being killed if they were not wearing a seat belt. In cases where the driver wore a seat belt, their chance of being killed was 1 in 1,294.

Regular safety belt use is the single most effective way to protect people and reduce fatalities in motor vehicle crashes.

For information on Missouri seatbelt usage, visit www.saveMOlives.com.

4 comments:

longrooffan said...

Plus, if your date wears a seat belt, it takes longer for her/him to get away from your advances!!

longrooffan said...

and did NotSoLilJim take that image? Sure looks like a Jeep Cherokee to me. But maybe his has chrome door handles? That would be like TheGentlemanFarmer.

Horse-farmer said...

Regular safety belt use is the single most effective way to protect people and reduce fatalities in motor vehicle crashes.

BS, single most effective way is to pay attention when driving and NOT RUN INTO OTHER OBJECTS. Give the person causing the wreck a hefty fine. We could call it the
"STUPID FINE" because the driver causing the wreck did something stupid.

Think of the money Springfield could gain and put in the Fire/Police Retirement fund.

But that would make way too much sense.

Keep it going.

Lil Jim said...

Chrome mirrors and door handles with the laredo package. My seat belts been broke for about 4 or 5 months...Dad says I won't get pulled over because I am no longer a young man...