Rhode Island Police to Enforce Nighttime Seat Belt Use [VIDEO]
The primary seat belt law allows officers to fine motorists $85 for not buckling up at any time of the day.
Rhode Island police have a message for motorists: click your seat belt or face a $85 fine. Local law enforcement throughout the state will start heavily enforcing nighttime seat belt use. Violators will be fined $85 for each person in the vehicle who is not wearing a belt. Tiverton and Little Compton police departments will be teaming up with State Police starting this weekend on enforcing the new initiative. Tiverton Police Lt. Patrick Jones said they will be out at 7 p.m. Friday night enforcing nighttime seat belt use. Little Compton Police Chief Sidney Wordell said, like last year, they will be participating in the nighttime "ramp up" effort going into the spring. Wordell said it is obviously much easier during the day to determine if …
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kevin costa
2:30 pm on Saturday, March 17, 2012
ALL police have turned their jobs into a PROFITABLE buisness on the tax payers dollar.How can you justify that they are protecting us as they wait in the bushes for something to happen? I see cops hidding at the END of a school zone as so to profit from speeders,what if a child crosses the road and someone hits them....where are the police to prevent this from happening.....in the bushes waiting … more ›