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I really think the city could have let her off with a warning. It sounds like she just wasnt aware of the law. Seems a little over the top for me anyway.
I have a 12 and half year old son who stand 4' 9" and weighs in at 125 lbs. Oh and he is one heck of a Linebacker to make him ride in the back seat just because he is not 13 yet is ridiculous.
What's next - outlawing drivers < 5'2"? It's unfortunate this woman took the community service before this story ran. I'm sure some enterprising legal eagle could have taken this to court on her behalf and set a precedant to overturn this silly law. As you said, this is all about making money.
It does seem excessive under the circumstances. The article says that her vehicle doesn't have airbags. I think the law was intended to protect small children from front seat airbags, but they apparently didn't say so. If this is the case, the cops need to be informed of this, or the law needs to be re-writtten if they intend to keep it.
I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion that this is all about the money. This is clearly the result of creeping authoritarianism. Both major parties want to control your life. The dems want to make laws protecting you from very unlikely risks and the GOP wants to make laws protecting you from... whatever it is that gay marriage is supposed to do to straight people's marriages. Both mean well and both are stupid and unnecessary.
Interestingly, Rio Rancho has always been a GOP stronghold in the Albuquerque area. I'm sure this is somehow those evil lie-berals faults though, right?
Looks like sitting your 5'2" kid in the front seat is endangering its life if you get in an accident.
From today's Journal.
Hoffman says according to the best data — a 2005 study by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in conjunction with State Farm Insurance that looked at 10 years of wrecks in 13 states — kids under 13 are 40 percent more likely to be injured in the front seat compared to the back. Even if they are 5-foot-2.From a pediatrician at UNMH.
Because a big kid is still a kid, he says, and their skeletal maturity and muscle and ligament strength just aren't there. A moderate-speed crash that could cause a 5-foot-2 woman a sore neck could give a 5-foot-2 child spinal fractures. Size gives a "false sense of security" he says. Kids' bodies are "just weaker and looser. They are more predisposed to head and neck injuries."
hi i am tamni and i am the one who actually had do deal whith this am now here to talke about it. would you like to talk to me3? i have alot of ideas. love tammi
to everyone, i gues i have learned my lesson- my child willl be 20 and still not be in the front seat in rio rancho lov tammi
hi, ir ia tammi the one from the article, and of course it was a money thing. thamks for our support tammi
yes it is the orginal tammi i dont really know how to answer you did you get this/ tammi
is anounme her to talk?
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