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Police chief Kenwood Taylor, head of the Traffic Division, along with several other senior officers were at the Ranfurly Circus in an effort to enforce the seatbelt law.<\/p>\nPolice chief Kenwood Taylor, head of the Traffic Division, along with several other senior officers were at the Ranfurly Circus in an effort to enforce the seatbelt law.<\/p>\n
More than 1,000 flyers were distributed to the motorists as the officers checked to make sure their seatbelts were buckled.<\/p>\n
With school just recently closed, the police’s biggest concern is the large amount of students and other pedestrians on the road.<\/p>\n
“We want to encourage motorists to buckle up, obey the speed limits and just drive with the utmost caution,” said Taylor.<\/p>\n
Last year between January to June, there were 483 accidents and 110 injuries, however this year there has been 407 accidents but 133 with injuries.<\/p>\n
Taylor said he believed that the number of injuries increased because persons were not wearing their seatbelts.<\/p>\n
“We are extremely pleased with this road check, 98 percent of people were wearing their seatbelt and we feel that the message is getting out,” he added.<\/p>\n
Along with checking for seatbelts, the officers were also looking for unlicensed cars.<\/p>\n
Taylor explained that sometimes persons go above and beyond the required time for licensing their cars and he insisted that this was a big “no-no.”<\/p>\n
“They drive them unlicensed, uninspected and uninsured,” he said.<\/p>\n
Commissioner of Police Ellison E. Greenslade’s plan for 2012 is to use the road blocks as a way of seeking to deal with persons who are blatantly disobeying the rules of the road.<\/p>\n
The police would like to remind the public that driving without a seatbelt is against the law. Offenders will receive a ticket and be fined.<\/p>\n
By Desiree Joseph Remarkably, police in Grand Bahama are actually enforcing the seatbelt law, which has been ignored for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[81,38],"class_list":["post-23125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-grand-bahama","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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