On Wednesday, we began discussing the annual two-week “Click It or Ticket” campaign that is taking place in Ohio and across the nation. If the possibilities of receiving a citation or suffering catastrophic injuries are not enough to persuade motorists to buckle up, there is another significant drawback to not buckling up that all motorists should keep in mind. In Ohio, if you suffer injuries in a car accident that was the fault of another driver, the amount of your damages could be significantly reduced if you were not wearing a seat belt. Ohio is one of 15 states that allows for what is often called a “seat belt defense.” Even if the other driver is clearly at fault for the car collision, the seat belt defense uses a comparative fault system that essentially determines how much of the damages were exacerbated by the injured party not wearing a seat…
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Failure to Wear Seat Belt May Cost You More Than Just a Ticket
May 18th, 2012Seat Belt Use in Ohio Improving, But Still Behind National Average
May 16th, 2012With Memorial Day on the horizon, members of the Ohio State Patrol and local police agencies throughout the state will be identifying and ticketing unbuckled motorists as part of the nationwide “Click It or Ticket” campaign that kicked off on Monday. This year’s campaign runs through June 3, and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) says that the annual two-week crackdown has resulted in more than 3 million seat belt citations being issued over the last five years. That translates to one ticket every other second. While NHTSA statistics indicate that seat belts saved an estimated 12,546 lives nationwide in 2010, more than half of the 22,187 passengers killed in motor vehicle crashes were not wearing seat belts at the time of their accidents. In Ohio, the percentage of fatalities was even higher at 61 percent. According to NHTSA, seat belt use in Ohio was 83.8 percent in 2010….
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‘Moore Law’ Helps Viewers Learn How to Help ‘Kids in Trouble’
May 14th, 2012Children’s Law Center, Inc. founder and executive director Kim Brooks Tandy joined Moore Law host and local TV journalist Deb Haas and attorney co-host Don Moore to discuss “Kids in Trouble” today. Kim explained that she founded the organization dedicated to protecting the rights of kids 23 years ago and the Law Center works on both sides of the river in Ohio and Kentucky. “We also do some things regionally and we have a national presence on some issues,” Kim said, adding that they deal with kids in trouble, needing protection or having educational issues. “There’s kind of a broad gamut,” Kim said. Deb mentioned that there were a lot of changes going on in the Buckeye State and the nation was watching Ohio as far as what it was doing with juveniles. “Very much so. We’ve had a real tendency to incarcerate—not only in Ohio, but across the country—as…
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