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<DIV><FONT size=4>John Donne wrote long ago:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>"No man is an island."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>All our actions affect others. Seat belt laws not only
protect the sitter in a vehicle but anyone who may have a collision with the
vehicle with the unbuckled sitter, no matter whose responsibility the
collision/mishap is.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>The liability of the others involved in a collision/mishap is
greater when any of the people involved in the colliding vehicles are unbuckled
thus more exposed to serious injury or death. No one wants to live with
the consequences of the more serious results of colliding with a vehicle with
someone unbuckled. Hence, the seat belt laws are there to protect others
than those that "choose" not to buckled. In general, if a person's choice
only affects themselves and very minimally affects others, perhaps we ought not
interfere with it. But like in the case of unbuckled persons in motor
vehicles, the choice is likely to affect others, sometimes
catastrophically.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>In addition, the cost all of us bear for emergency responses
for collisions/mishaps with unbuckled drivers is increased by the
unbuckled. EMTs and LEOs are also additionally stressed by the carnage of
the unbuckled. Besides the trauma for these officials, it is likely that
turnover will be increased for those agencies. In addition, some of the
additional injuries etc suffered by the unbuckled happen to people without the
resources to cover their medical costs. The rest of us must then pay those
costs not because of our choice because of the "choice" of the
unbuckled.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>There is another cost when some one is killed or seriously
injured in a vehicle collision/mishap (more likely to happen to happen to an
unbuckled):</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Family members, friends, and employers suffer unnecessary
losses -- sometime horrible, long term ones.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Hence, seat belt laws are just good public policy enacted for
public health and safety.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><BR>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<BR><A
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=editor@lataheagle.com href="mailto:editor@lataheagle.com">Kai Eiselein,
editor</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=jmcfarland@latah.id.us
href="mailto:jmcfarland@latah.id.us">Jennifer McFarland</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">'Vision
2020'</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 20, 2006 1:17 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Question for the Vision</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<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>
<DIV>
<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
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #006666; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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