There will be another effort in the Legislature to make North Dakota’s seat belt law a primary offense.
Right now, it’s a secondary offense – meaning you have to be pulled over for something else before you can be ticketed for not buckling up.
Sen. Curt Kreun is the primary sponsor of a bill to make it a primary offense.
“Some people who are injured run out of their insurance funds,” Kreun said. “With rehab and disability, we’re using up our Medicare and other government funds to rehabilitate those who were injured.”
Kreun said what the sponsors are trying to do is slow that down.
“We want to save some lives, and keep people from having to go through these dramatic injuries and rehab processes,” Kreun said.
The bill would also require back seat passengers to wear their seat belts. That isn’t required now.
Kreun said he knows it is an uphill battle. But he said he thinks it’s time.
“My dad was a Minnesota state trooper,” Kreun said. “He said during his 23-year career, he never unbuckled a dead person.”
A hearing on the bill will be held Friday morning in the Senate Transportation Committee.
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Curt Kreun should be hung.
It’s been primary in Texas–where else?–since at least 1992 when I got pulled over for no seat belt. “Click it or ticket” doncha know.
Motorcycles dont have seat belts
Neither do hand gliders or parachutes or bulls or bucking broncs. 🙂
Another totalitarian spewing communist BS. According to this a$$clown, nobody in North Dakota has health insurance, yet it is mandated by the socialist ObamaCare. Funny how they always have “good” reasons for taking freedom away. Hang this traitorous POS from the nearest lamp post.