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Half of Blackburn with Darwen youngsters don't wear seatbelts
9:04am Friday 3rd July 2009 in
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- By David Watkinson » Deputy news editor
PARENTS have come under heavy fire after it was revealed that more than half of children in Blackburn with Darwen are not wearing seatbelts in cars.
Safety experts say children are being put at risk of horrific injuries or even death if they are involved in a crash.
New research from the borough’s casualty reduction team has shown that 53 per cent of 10-year-olds do not belt up when travelling.
And the statistics have been backed by bosses at the Lancashire Partnership of Road Safety, which covers the whole county, who said there are not enough youngsters are belting up.
Former firefighter Steve Johnson, who leads the team, said the figures were a shock and showed the amount of work needed to get through to parents.
A series of events are now being planned in a bid to get the message through to families about how import wearing a seat belt is.
Mr Johnson said: “We have a big problem in this area with young people not wearing seat belts.
“My team has been working with primary schools across the borough on the importance of road safety and have been surprised by their attitude to seat belts.
“We have done a survey of over 1,800 10-year-olds and 954 said that they did not wear a seat belt. We are sure that statistic is repeated throughout the ages.
“The blame for this has to be with the parents. Either parents don’t enforce the need to belt up or the driver doesn’t make it happen.
“If you are not wearing a seat belt then you are four times more likely to die in a car crash.
“There is no sensible reason not to wear one.”
The Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety is backing the casualty reduction team in their campaign.
Linda Sanderson, communications manager for the partnership, said: “Your child is more likely to die if he or she is not wearing a seat belt and you have a crash.
“Even at low speeds like 30 mph, the impact on their unrestrained bodies causes horrific injuries to them and other occupants.
“No distance is too short for everyone to belt up, every time, even if you are in a hurry, or just nipping around the corner to school.”
Sgt Pete Sculpher, of the Eastern Division road policing unit, said: “The figures have come as a surprise because I thought we were getting the message across about seat belts.
“Children as young as year six are not wearing seatbelts and that is down to the parents. It is disgusting they are not being made to belt up.
“Seatbelts are vitally important because if you are involved in a crash it is not just your own life you are putting at risk, but those of other passengers who could be seriously injured if you are flung around.”
He said he would be meeting with council officials in the next week to discuss improving the figures through education.
Lancashire’s chief fire officer, Peter Holland, said his officers had seen first hand the importance of wearing seat belts.
He said: “It is inevitable that our emergency services personnel are first-hand witnesses to the effects of the non-wearing of seat belts. “Certainly, firefighters get a better insight than most into the consequences, in terms of their impact on casualties and their loved ones.
“It is important that the work from organisations such as the casualty reduction team is successful to ensure that more people are able to complete journeys on Lancashire's roads without incident.”
Mr Johnson said some of the reasons given by youngsters for not wearing a seat belt during the workshops had been laughable.
He said reasons had included “the belt creases my shirt”, “it’s uncomfortable”, “I forgot” and the most ironic being “it might hurt my shoulder if there was a crash”.
Mr Johnson added: “We have been working with schools to educate children on road safety and seat belts have become a major issue.
“The workshops in schools will continue. If parents are not educating their children on safety properly then we then we have to go straight to the children with the safety messages.”
Comments(30)
Lifeinthemix
says...
10:44am Fri 3 Jul 09
Good grief the country will collapse!!
If this is what the police feel is blitzing crime, is it any wonder they are seen as useless?
Not wearing a seatbelt is not a Common law requirment.
It is a means to fleece you the public of yet more money to the Crown.
These stupid statute laws have to be demolished so our police service can do what it is mandated to do by the people for the people, and remove the Crown as benefactor of the financial kickback and the creation of tension.
easymonies
says...
10:57am Fri 3 Jul 09
Your slacking, you've not left us a link to goto to read all about seatbelts and the lives they have saved over the years and the millions of £s saved from not having to restructure faces/bodies that have gone through windscreens or the disability payments the state pays following crashes etc....
Waiting with baited breadth..
Albert Beckett
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12:16pm Fri 3 Jul 09
Apart from those drivers who do not wear seat belts, and allow their children to not wear them, there are some 'clever motorists', who use the following ploys:
a)Pass the seat belt under your right arm and across your lap - usually employed by young females.
You can always say you ARE wearing your seat belt - not that it will be accepted by the police, or the magistrate.
b)Drape the seat belt over your right shoulder, but do not fasten - usually used by young males.
If you see the police car in your rear view mirror, you can quickly clunk/click, and insist you were wearing it all the time.
c)Fasten the seat belt, then sit on it - a ruse used by many to stop that infuriating warning signal that your seat belt is not fastened, and give the appearance from behind that the seat belt is correctly fastened.
Only covert surveillance will reveal the extent of the contempt these motorists have for the law, as they will simply clunk/click when the police car comes in sight.
I lost two friends, who had had their upper spinal cord severed in minor crashes, in less powerful cars than they drive today. I also had a girlfriend who has went through a windscreen, not a pretty sight.
Perhaps they would like to spend time in prison, because one of their friends has died as a result of not wearing a seat belt, as a relative of mine did.
Mike Costa
says...
12:21pm Fri 3 Jul 09
So the imeciles dont wear seatbelts, so what?
The easy answer is that not only does their insurance become invalid if they have a crash, but they should have to pay for all their medical care. Insurance for them for the next ten years should always be quadrupled.With any luck, they wont be able to afford to get back in a car in the future (if they are still alive that is).
As they say: It aint clever, it aint funny and it aint very adult
Lifeinthemix
says...
12:44pm Fri 3 Jul 09
Thick is not the word...
You numties, who the hell pays for the NHS?
You do you idiots, the state is supposed to administer the system the people agree in place, it is not the states money it is ours....
The nazi mindset has taken you over so much it is beyond belief, telling tales on neighbours, tittle tattle about garbage...
YOU ARE DUMBED DOWN
The police should be investigating their commanders who have usurped the LCC, own the assets of LCC not for you the people but for the Crown....
If this country falls to the fascist model then you will deserve everything that comes with it, you are so stupid it beggars belief. You hate ze Germans because you belive they were bad for allowing Hitler into power, well if the only way you are to understand how fascism takes hold in a nation is to allow it to take hold here then so be it...
Mark my words, if it comes you will remember reading my words as you cry for your children as they are taken away, as your wife is raped in front of you before you are marched off to the camps.
Get real, get with it and take a very big interest in what is happening in the US as I write, because all of the above is happening NOW, carried out by policemen and the illegal immigrant private security forces.
Go to Blackpool and listen to the language the pub security speak in, it is not English it is Russian, do you think they will have problems killing you?
Our military is on foriegn shores, we are open and rife for total takeover as was achieved under the two Templar puppet brothers, King Richard and John. one removed the fighting men while the other destroyed the country and created the Templar system of feudal society taxing everyone to death.
You are ignorant of history therefore you are destined to repeat history, that is the way of life until you change your thought processes.
I know you are struggling with the information I bring before you, but that is your ignorance not mine
Lifeinthemix
says...
1:01pm Fri 3 Jul 09
Albert Becket
people die every day...people are born every day...that is the way of this world.
I can think of much worse ways to die than in a car crash.
I accept the fact that front seat drivers should belt up, but I do not agree they should mandate law for the back seat passengers.
Thats it call for yet more Nazi surviellance you silly man...
Albert don't forget to get your face scanned so the drones can come and get ya....
See here :
http://www.lifeinthe
mixtalk.com/?p=9
ChiRho
says...
1:49pm Fri 3 Jul 09
Lifeinthemix wrote:I dont know what scares me most; thinking of Gordon Brown as King Richard and Dave Cameron as King John or the fact that you have access to a computer...
Hi All. Thick is not the word... You numties, who the hell pays for the NHS? You do you idiots, the state is supposed to administer the system the people agree in place, it is not the states money it is ours.... The nazi mindset has taken you over so much it is beyond belief, telling tales on neighbours, tittle tattle about garbage... YOU ARE DUMBED DOWN The police should be investigating their commanders who have usurped the LCC, own the assets of LCC not for you the people but for the Crown.... If this country falls to the fascist model then you will deserve everything that comes with it, you are so stupid it beggars belief. You hate ze Germans because you belive they were bad for allowing Hitler into power, well if the only way you are to understand how fascism takes hold in a nation is to allow it to take hold here then so be it... Mark my words, if it comes you will remember reading my words as you cry for your children as they are taken away, as your wife is raped in front of you before you are marched off to the camps. Get real, get with it and take a very big interest in what is happening in the US as I write, because all of the above is happening NOW, carried out by policemen and the illegal immigrant private security forces. Go to Blackpool and listen to the language the pub security speak in, it is not English it is Russian, do you think they will have problems killing you? Our military is on foriegn shores, we are open and rife for total takeover as was achieved under the two Templar puppet brothers, King Richard and John. one removed the fighting men while the other destroyed the country and created the Templar system of feudal society taxing everyone to death. You are ignorant of history therefore you are destined to repeat history, that is the way of life until you change your thought processes. I know you are struggling with the information I bring before you, but that is your ignorance not mine
DavidBurnley
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2:40pm Fri 3 Jul 09
At first I just thought you were cuckoo - not I realise you are stupid too! That's a really dangerous combination.
Perhaps you should get out more and spend time in the real world rather than cooped up with your conspiracy theories about things that have never existed or haven't done so for centuries.
Oh, and by the way - those 'Russians' you claim to be hearing in Blackpool - they are actually Polish in the main. Obviously a little bit of knowledge and a furtive imagination is doing you no good whatsoever.
Lifeinthemix
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3:58pm Fri 3 Jul 09
DavidBurnley
It is not the law it is a statute law.
A statute law only comes into effect if you accept you are a corporate asset and liability of the Statute.
Under Common law, the law of the land, which is our cultural foundation, all the statute laws have no reality, they have no basis in power.
The Statute laws are taken from the Law of the Sea, British Admiralty Law.
The two are differentiated because they are for two distinct aspects of Great Britian.
common law prevents any change to common law, the government and Crown are not there to rule, the government is there to administer common law, the crown is supposed to ensure the government upholds common law.
The Magna Carta was and is, a Knights Templar usurpation of our Common law, everything changed in relation to law from this time is 'Unlawful' within this country.
Look, if you expect to understand this in a quick fashion, forget it, it is so devious, so based in sophistry and semantics, all levels of the legal profession below that of barrister, cannot even grasp its deception.
Under common law the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq would never happen. income tax would never happen, removal of any goods and chattles, would not happen under common law.
Common law 'IS' our law of the land, it is not the statute laws, but if you enter into contract with the statute system by admiting you are the corporate entity registered with United kingdom Inc, defined by the use of capital letters at the front of your name, (which denotes ownership of your person by the corporation.
If you see yourself as a corporate asset, then the statutes have you.
If however, you 'remember' you are a human being as decreed in common law, then the corporate statutes cannot affect you at all.
It's difficult to grasp, but study the presentation letter here :
http://www.lifeinthe
mixtalk.com/?p=240
Historians and the control of by the elite, has been the means to this deception, they have no idea of our true history, they expouse only the history written down by each succesive generation.
"Those who control the past... control the future...those who control the present... control the past"
History as we are taught through normal channels, is a fraud of monumental proportions
For instance, you believe the Norman's were French, they were Vikings, Norse-men...North-me
n
The pope of the time gave the viking chief the land because the Vikings operated for Charlemagne and his successors. The Vikings were only around for 200 years, they appeared out of nowhere and vanished into nowhere, but everywhere.
Study here :
http://lifeinthemix2
.co.uk/merovingians_
not.html
History does not include secret society moves and manipulations, it has been secret...
Historians are dealing in only half the truth...
Lifeinthemix
says...
4:12pm Fri 3 Jul 09
PS you are wrong about they being Polish...Fact.
amazed
says...
6:30pm Fri 3 Jul 09
it is the law apart from certain exceptions, Taxi drivers etc. I am about to check up. I started to wear a seat belt when they were introduced, my children (now grown up) have always worn seat belts in the car and so have my grandchildren. In fact my son will not drive off until he ensures that everyone has "CLUNK/CLICKED for every trip" (with apologises to Jimmy Saville) I am a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists and a founder member of Blackburn Area Road Safety Association so I reckon I know what I am talking about. I think Lifeinthemix has got his life in a mix if you ask me. In fact his posts are ranting and frankly hilarious.
amazed
says...
6:51pm Fri 3 Jul 09
You will get it there chapter and verse - many explanations about the various exemptions. ROSPA etc.There is no doubt about what the LAW is so shut up.
This is not answering the question raised by this investigation. What positive action is being taken? Something urgent needs to be done by Police. There are many things that worry me about today's drivers. For instance, Tail gating, Using mobiles whilst driving and not wearing a seat belt. Anyone doing these things should be prosecuted.
Lifeinthemix
says...
7:13pm Fri 3 Jul 09
amazed
I think you should continue to be amazed.
WAY OVER YOUR HEAD...
amazed
says...
9:25pm Fri 3 Jul 09
How a matter of seat belts can provoke such an outburst from you shows that you are short of "summat" up there. I notice that you have not the courage to look at the web site that I quoted and REPLIED to that. Instead you make a stupid, inane remark which helps nobody.
Tosh67
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9:39pm Fri 3 Jul 09
Lifeinthemix
says...
12:09am Sat 4 Jul 09
My final point on this matter would be that to enforce seat belts in the back would decimate large families, you cannot get all the children into a car if they get strict on back seat belts.
Big families cannot afford big people carriers and such, just on cost of running them.
The worst cultural negative about todays mindset, is this constant worry of what may be, to the point you do nothing. The police if they speak to you always go on and on about what might have happened.
It really is a serious fault man has had NLP'd into his consciousness via the TV and film.
And worse, you have no idea it has been done to you, because it has been carried out en mass.
There are big consequences if they enforce rear belts, which will suppress many family outings.
Excluded
says...
8:25am Sat 4 Jul 09
There are three sources of law in Britain.
Common law is law which predates the establishment of parliament.
Statute law is law passed by Acts of Parliament (statutes).
Case law is interpretations of common and statute law by judges in particular cases.
As lifeinthemix's argument is based largely on his complete misunderstanding of statute law, his whole argument topples over into a heap.
Lifeinthemix
says...
10:50am Sat 4 Jul 09
Excluded
One last shot with you...
yes Common law predates Parlaiment, go study the provisions of Oxford.
Common Law sets out the form of court for the trial of any British citizen.
1) The Judge is not some chap in a whig, the Judge is the Jury made up of the accused piers.
2)Common Law forbids any change to Common law without the full and unaquivicol consent of the people.
At no point in history have the people consented to the removal of the Jury to be replaced with a Crown Judge.
That makes magistrates unlawful under Common law.
It makes court Judges unlawful having usurped the role of Jury by definition, the Judge can tell the jury what to hear and see and what not to hear and see. The Judge decides what evidence will be allowed and what will not. This is in direct contradiction to common law, thus usurps common law.
Only by definition of the fact...'These phantom judges have been installed over and above a Jury, have the Statutes which are corporate regulations, belonging to the Law of the Sea, been brought in over and above our common law.
Again for those struggling to grasp the reality of the usurpation of our constitution under common law...
The Judge has usurped the Jury, in doing so, have allowed the statute laws to supercede the common law of the land.
Common law by definition of its mandate, prevents any change to common law, expecially what we call today 'Statute Law'.
There is no way around these facts, to use statute laws to make argument against common law has no power to supercede common law, therefore is defunct, nonsence,sedition, and treason.
The whole statute legal system is an act of treason against Britian, those who operate the statute system are acting treason, to bring a statute case against another British citizen is treason.
Lifeinthemix
says...
11:13am Sat 4 Jul 09
The magna Carta removed the power of Common law by giving all legislative powers to the Templar barons, and removing power from the monarch, whose job it was to ensure the law of the land held sway, the Christian moral code was kept in place especially the law on usury (moneylending at interest.
It has been down hill ever since, especially with the murder of the King who fought hard for the people against the ever increasingly despotic Templar landowners.
remember it was the Priory of Sion in control of the templars, SION=ZION,
Oliver Cromwell was a puppet of the Dutch financiers who just happened to be Jewish.
Cromwell was the Zionist messiah, funded from Holland and took his orders from Holland :
1642 AD
Civil War breaks out in England.
I have discussed this subject in previous phases, the history from William the Conqueror has been totally aimed at bringing to fruition exactly what would be accomplished through Oliver Cromwell. This was to bring in the paper money, to begin the credit and therefore debt banking Scam; it is a scam ladies and gents. Regardless of what your beliefs, to which order you belong, you are all a slave to debt. I have stated previously that Cromwell was being funded from Holland, as he took orders from these financing masters. This whole event was the elite moving financial headquarters from Holland to England, because Charles would not agree to the Central Bank agenda, there had to be war. Both Cromwell and Charles I, were Freemasons, neither comes out very good in personality and Jesus-ness. For whatever reason Charles would not go along with the Brotherhood central bank idea, a bit like Thatcher not wavering on her stance on Europe, we should have backed her on that one... Both Charles and Cromwell were controlled by the money lenders; Charles required them to keep control of England, and Cromwell required them for revolution. Either way England lost to the Black Nobility, we lost with the actual outcome with Cromwell handing this nation to the Banking elite, as we would have lost had Charles agreed to the Bankers demands. I would state that Charles raised taxes to plug the hole now the money flow from the Bankers had been withdrawn. Why the leaders of each generation don’t just tell the people what we face at each opportunity instead of thinking for them, is the reason we are here today. I am not an advocate of Charles on any other grounds except he was the only hope England had of defeating the Moneylenders since the 1066 invasion. His mistake was in not trusting the English people to decide for themselves, regardless of what Charles was religiously, England would have backed him had they known the truth, we are again at one of these points but with a difference, you the people of this time know the truth, its now a case of how many of you have grasped this message over how many are obsessing themselves with the messenger?
1649 AD
Charles I is beheaded, ‘the King is dead…Long Live the Bank’
1655 AD
One year after sending his son to see Cromwell the Lord Protector, Cromwell’s financier from Holland, Rabbi Manasseh Ben Israel set sail for England. Cromwell having given right for freedom to worship God as you will gave opening for ben Israel to secure Portuguese Jewish moneylenders to set up home around Creechurch lane near London’s Aldgate. Within a few years around forty families were operating in the capital as moneylenders (Ben Israel’s money and his backers) and dealers in gold and gems. The foundation of credit and debt networks of the European Illuminati families was secure, expanding the network of the national banks which would come to pass after the clean up of remaining obstacles, an agenda hidden from the minds of the people with a war and a pretty large fire.
1658 AD
September of this year saw the death of the Tempest, Oliver Cromwell.
His son Richard continued the Protectorate but was removed after seven or so months as inept. There was a great vacuum in the soul of England without a King but the 30.000 strong officers and men of the Puritan Army retched at the thought. Charles Prince of Wales had been on the run whilst claiming the throne after his failed attempt when the Scots army were routed at Worcester. He was still popular among the people of England and was hidden and helped to exile. May 1659 saw the return of the dismissed Rump parliament who again reigned over havoc after a while.
1660 AD
Watching the chaos from his Scottish post was a Devon General and commander of the English Army in Scotland was George Monck. He marched his army to London and reinstated the MP’s excluded in Prides Purge ending the Rump. As the undisputed ruler of England and refusing to take the role of Lord Protector, he began negotiations with Charles Prince of Wales from his base in Breda Holland. Placating all concerned including the payment for the army, England was again royal, from this moment the Monarchy was on the path to become a puppet position, the Illuminati changing their face from Royal to credit and debt…Long Live the Bank!
Full details in chronological order Here :
http://lifeinthemix.
org.uk/democracy_xii
i_part_.html
easymonies
says...
11:35am Sat 4 Jul 09
1 driver
1 front Passenger
3 rear passengers
As such insurance for the vehicle is based around that concept.
So in LITM argument, seat belts would preclude the transportation of large families.
the solution could be to have smaller families. simple mathematics and logic.
That way, not only are you to 'Belt-up' but also reduce the burden on others in benefits. A win - win situation.
amazed
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2:01pm Sat 4 Jul 09
I am sure that any responsible driver will see that the seat belts are fastened. I am absolutely gob smacked at this article. If a driver wants to put his family in jeopardy that is entirely in his own hands. He is breaking the law and should suffer the consequences if caught - although if he has an accident in the meantime he may be DEAD and beyond the reach of the law. What a pity.
madari
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2:04pm Sat 4 Jul 09
easymonies wrote:Madarisays:
Average vehicles are built to accept: 1 driver 1 front Passenger 3 rear passengers As such insurance for the vehicle is based around that concept. So in LITM argument, seat belts would preclude the transportation of large families. the solution could be to have smaller families. simple mathematics and logic. That way, not only are you to 'Belt-up' but also reduce the burden on others in benefits. A win - win situation.
What a load of tosh,the country needs man power hence mass immigration and you are on about having smaller families ....get eal or get off...
Excluded
says...
3:10pm Sat 4 Jul 09
It is enough to point out that his whole argument rests on our ancestors having a time machine.
The concept of common law was developed a couple of centuries after statute law was introduced as Acts of Parliament.
The first setting out of common law as a body of law was by Coke in around 1600. His access to a time machine is not recorded.
mazx4
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4:05pm Sat 4 Jul 09
easymonies
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6:10pm Sat 4 Jul 09
madari wrote:The country has got all the manpower it needs, the problem is it's sitting on its arses doing nothing and claiming benefits.
easymonies wrote:Madarisays:
Average vehicles are built to accept: 1 driver 1 front Passenger 3 rear passengers As such insurance for the vehicle is based around that concept. So in LITM argument, seat belts would preclude the transportation of large families. the solution could be to have smaller families. simple mathematics and logic. That way, not only are you to 'Belt-up' but also reduce the burden on others in benefits. A win - win situation.
What a load of tosh,the country needs man power hence mass immigration and you are on about having smaller families ....get eal or get off...
The mass immigration is because our government have got it wrong. They just won't admit it.
What would be interesting is if a large family were in an accident and the insurance refused to pay out because the occupants could/were not restrained properly.
soviekie
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7:56pm Sat 4 Jul 09
Lifeinthemix
says...
9:55pm Sat 4 Jul 09
Excluded deluded said :
The concept of common law was developed a couple of centuries after statute law was introduced as Acts of Parliament.
Wow you really are a basket case, Common law was brought to Blighty by the Saxons.We are talking anytime close to 600AD. I think you should get a check up for alzhiemers chuck, and while your at it get them to belt you well onto the trolly (case you have an accident and fall off), then get a couple of those bird-pig-man flu jabs, then you can give commentary on your progress...
You must you must its the LAW....
lol.
Stone Cold
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11:48pm Sat 4 Jul 09
G I MOZZO
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3:34pm Sun 5 Jul 09
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easymonies says...
10:24am Fri 3 Jul 09
Clamp down on these law breakers and don't warn them fine them, hit in their wallets where it hurts, that's the only way you will get the message through.