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<DIV><SPAN class=526115520-20112006>I believe that all persons under the age of
18 should be belted, and officers should be able to pull over a vehicle if they
see an unbelted minor.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=526115520-20112006>Adults, however, should make their own
choices.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=526115520-20112006>I say this in light of the fact that I
ALWAYS wear a seatbelt and twice have walked away relatively uninjured because
of them, including an end over end rollover.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=526115520-20112006>I've also been injured by a seatbelt;
compression fractures in my back. But that was an oddball accident and if I
hadn't been wearing a seatbelt, the doctors said I would have probably broken my
neck.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=526115520-20112006>What is needed is better education as to WHY
people need to use seatbelts and use actual, close up, gory photos of those that
didn't. I've crawled into a car after a guy hit a telephone pole at 30 mph with
no belt and it is not a pretty sight. Maybe if people see the real, unsanitized
results, their seatbelt usage would change.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=526115520-20112006>I think our police have better things to do
than play parent to adult drivers. </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=526115520-20112006>It also seems a bit goofy to me to toughen
seatbelt laws on adults, while having no helmet law for them.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=526115520-20112006>Just my two cents worth.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Jennifer McFarland<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 20, 2006
12:16 PM<BR><B>To:</B> 'Vision 2020'<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Question
for the Vision<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><IMG class=shape
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Dear
Visionaries,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">I hope you are all doing well as we
enter the holiday season. I issued a press release a little over a week
ago alerting the public of our “Click It Don’t Risk It!” seat belt compliance
campaign. I’m happy to say that of the 15 cars I pulled over yesterday,
only one person was not in compliance with <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Idaho</st1:place></st1:State>’s seat belt laws. However, I was
just visited by a friend form the Lewiston Police Department (our partner in
this year’s campaign), and he and I talked about our laws relative to
<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:State>’s
laws. In <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></st1:place>, an officer must pull a car over for a
“greater” offense (speeding, having a registration sticker in the wrong place,
not having a front plate, etc.) in order to enforce the seat belt laws.
In other words, I cannot pull over a car just because I see a small child
standing up in the back seat—I’d have to have other probable cause to pull
over said vehicle. The <st1:City w:st="on">Lewiston</st1:City> officer
I’ve been working with has spent a lot of time trying to change <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></st1:place>’s laws regarding
seat belt use to: 1. make it a primary offense, and 2. raise the fines so they
are commensurate with other states’ fines for the same. I’ve heard
arguments supporting both sides to this, but I am curious as to what Latah
County’s citizens think about our seat belt laws—whether they are adequate as
they are, if they should change, how they should change, etc. My own
views on seat belt usage have as much to do with how I was raised as they do
with a general aversion to the gruesome scenes I’ve experienced responding to
collisions wherein the passenger(s) were not properly restrained (and having
to notify next of kin). But I also realize that my experience is just
that—mine. What are your thoughts?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Thank you for your
time,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">~Jennifer
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT face=Georgia size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia">Det. Jennifer
L. McFarland<BR><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Latah</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> Sheriff's Office<BR>Public
Information Officer<BR><st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on">PO
Box</st1:Street> 8068</st1:address><BR><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">83843</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><BR>(208)
882-2216<BR>Fax (208) 883-2281<BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><A
href="http://www.latah.id.us/Dept/Sheriff_Main.htm"><FONT face=Georgia
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia">http://www.latah.id.us/Dept/Sheriff_Main.htm</SPAN></FONT></A><BR><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Georgia color=black size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia">Truth is the
summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.<BR>***Ralph
Waldo Emerson<BR><BR> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#006666
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #006666; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
<P><FONT face=Arial color=#006666 size=2><SPAN
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