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Originally posted by bentbryan
Actually, within the last year or two I remember the Boston police (or maybe Manino) made an announcement that they were going to begin enforcing the seatbelt law as a primary violation (meaning you now would be stopped for not wearing your seatbelt, whereas before it was a secondary violation that would only be given if you had been stopped for speeding, etc) I found this
that shows it as a secondary violation. Still trying to find something about them changing that though...
As far as a seatbelt law in general, I agree with you. Nobody is going argue too much because seat-belts do save lives. |
Except they don't.. almost nothing is enforced down here. If they wanted to make mad revenue there are any number of places where they could bag 100+ cars for doing 90 in a 55 every morning. ISTR they made a PR move in the last year about trying to step up enforcement, but that was mostly about running stop signs and red lights in the city. And I haven't heard much that it was actually stepped up.
In my town they are particularly strong in terms of enforcing inspection stickers and such though. In the morning 2 blocks from my apartment is one of the busiest intersections in town, which is how you get out to the highway. At least 2-3 days a week they have the motorcycle cop sitting at the intersection. He just sits there and waves everyone over who has an invalid sticker. He had 5 people pulled over this morning. So maybe he is checking seatbelts, but my impression is it's inspection stickers. And it could be red light running too, he is in a perfect position to see that and it's common at that intersection.