In the Netherlands the same equipment which catch you for speeding also
check whether the seatbelts are used.
It recently has been introduced.
BTW - what price is reasonable for new automatic belts for my '71 MGB GT?
Cheers,
Hans who had a teriffic weekend at the TT track at Assen where 100's of MG's
were gathered....
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barney Gaylord [SMTP:barneymg@ntsource.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 4:15 AM
> To: mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Speeding Tickets(now seat belts)
>
> >....
> >> How does the officer know you had your belt on or not??? >
>
> Here in Illinois some time ago, shortly after the mandatory seat belt law
> was passed, a police officer would sometimes stand near a coin box on the
> tollway and check for seat belt usage as the cars passed through the toll
> booth. Those cars with occupants not using the seat belts were waved over
> to the side of the road and issued tickets for substantial cash fines.
> This practice raised such a public uproar that the law was shortly
> ammended
> to disallow stopping and ticketing a motorist soley for the seat belt
> violation.
>
> Now if you are stopped by a cop for any other reason and he happens to
> notice a seat belt violation, then you can still be ticketed for it. I
> think this is most often done in conjunction with not having the kids
> buckled up in the back seat. In any case it usually results in the
> issuance of two tickets, one for the belts and one for something else
> (such
> as speeding), so there is no argument that you were stopped just for the
> belt violation.
>
> Barney Gaylord
> 1958 MGA with an attitude
> http://www.ntsource.com/~barneymg
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