On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 13:08:07 -0500, Gary Hedlin <garyhedlin@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
>
> Thatıs my veiw on it exactly.... Wearing a seat belt is a personal safety
> choice and in no way affects the safety of others.
>
> In Illinois its a $55 fine, and they can pull you over if they see you
> not
> wearing one. Heh...and they say Fascism is dead???
>
> But in my case, I was wearing a safety belt, just not the stock shoulder
> belt but the lap belt. If the law is you must wear the stock safety
> belt,
> then there's A LOT of people in my situation that are up $hit creek when
> theyıve got $40,000 accessible vans that technically are not legal for
> them
> to drive or ride in.
>
> The standard practice for these vans is to secure the wheelchair via a
> locking mechanism to the floor, then the person is secured to the chair
> by
> the chairs internal safety belts or other apparatus (depending on a
> number
> of factors).
>
> You tell me how a shoulder belt would stop a 3-400lb wheelchair in a
> collision, because the laws of physics says it wont happen.
>
> Bottom line....seat belt modifications happen all the time in my realm,
> and
> they work better than the stock belts. So you tell me how safety belt
> laws
> can be made to deem these as illegal just on the sole premise that theyre
> not stock.
>
>
> ....That's why im so upset about this!!
>
>
I would read the law and see what it says before getting upset about it.
And even if the law didn't provide a provision for someone in your
situation, I'm sure you could easily turn things around with a lawsuit or a
phone call to your local tv news I-team or whatever. And if a cop gave you
a ticket for it, he's defoinately a shameless dick. :P
-- -Droo
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