TAKING TIME OUT FOR SAFETY : REGIONAL BUCKLE-UP CHECKUP FINDS 50 DRIVERS IN VIOLATION.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Daily News Staff Writer More than 50 motorists were ticketed for not wearing seat belts or not having their children strapped strapped adj. Informal In financial need: We are strapped for cash right now. strapped Adjective strapped for Slang in at ``seat belt checkpoints.'' Deputies waved over and ticketed about one out of every 20 motorists who went through the checkpoints set for 90 minutes Wednesday morning on Palmdale Boulevard and 90 minutes Wednesday afternoon on Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling south of Lancaster Boulevard. ``We know percentagewise that seat belts save lives and they save people from serious injury,'' said sheriff's Sgt. Bob Welch There are a number of famous people of this name including:
In conjunction with National Child Safety Week, deputies blocked off one lane of each road with orange traffic cones and put up signs saying ``seat belt checkpoint (programming) checkpoint - Saving the current state of a program and its data, including intermediate results, to disk or other non-volatile storage, so that if interrupted the program could be restarted at the point at which the last checkpoint occurred. ahead.'' Motorists drove one at a time past deputies, who glanced in the windows to see if the driver and any children were strapped in. Violators could find the experience costly. Motorists ticketed for the first time for failure to wear a seat belt are fined $25, and repeat offenders pay more. The fine for failure to have a child under 4 in a child safety seat is $271 for a first offense. The fine for an unbelted child ages 4 to 16 is $136. Deputies working on the checkpoint said they've heard every kind of excuse for not wearing a seat belt: fear of crashing into a lake and drowning drowning /drown·ing/ (droun´ing) suffocation and death resulting from filling of the lungs with water or other substance. drowning, n asphyxiation because of submersion in a liquid. , fear of being trapped in a burning car. ``We don't have many lakes around here,'' Deputy Mike Rice said. ``The actual incidents of (post-accident) fires are very few.'' Deputies said they issued 27 citations in Palmdale and 24 in Lancaster. Seven of those citations went to motorists who didn't have their children buckled in. ``In one vehicle where there were two (children), there was a child seat for both but neither of the kids was in one,'' Rice said. ``They were bouncing around in the back.'' Deputies said they issued an additional 18 citations to motorists who lacked insurance and three for driving without a license or on a suspended sus·pend v. sus·pend·ed, sus·pend·ing, sus·pends v.tr. 1. To bar for a period from a privilege, office, or position, usually as a punishment: suspend a student from school. license. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--Ran in AV only--color) Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County sheriff's Deputy Mike Redding Redding, city (1990 pop. 66,462), seat of Shasta co., N central Calif., on the Sacramento River; inc. 1872. A principal tourist center for a mountain and lake region, it also has lumbering, food-processing, and diverse manufacturing. inspects a car for seat belt violations at a checkpoint Wednesday in Palmdale. (2--Ran in AV only--color) A deputy writes a ticket during a safety inspection Wednesday. The event is part of National Child Safety Week. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion