Support for Seat Belts & Red Light Cameras
Thursday, September 7th, 2000 AutoAccording to a recent Insurance Research Council (IRC) survey of U.S. households, Americans support measures such as primary seat belt enforcement and red light cameras that are designed to increase compliance with vehicle safety laws. Eighty-nine percent of respondents supported some type of seat belt law. Nearly half (47 percent) of respondents favored primary enforcement, whereby police can stop a driver solely on the basis of not wearing a seat belt. Forty-one percent of respondents favored secondary enforcement, which requires police to have some other reason to stop a vehicle before citing an occupant for not buckling up. On the second issue, most respondents supported mounting cameras at intersections to photograph vehicles running red lights.
