The fines should lowered regarding 'The Seat Belt Law' and Time doing Community Service should be added.

This a good compromise.

You think? :driving:

I think that "The Seat Belt Law" will take a long time to sink in here in Nassau.
The island i too close nit and most police officers and their families don't wear seat belts anyhow.

The fines should lowered regarding 'The Seat Belt Law' and Time doing Community Service should be added.

This a good compromise.

You think? :driving:


even better, a drivers ed course should be implemented, thats ofcourse if they had any driving instructors that know how to drive, doesnt seem so the way they have taught their students!

The fine to high? Someone said on a talk show that the only want to get a Bahamian's attention is to hit him in the wallet - hard!

I believe that seat belts are a good thing. However, I have difficulty in governments tell us what good for us and then making us do it.

Are we becoming, what those in the UK call, a "Nanny State?" For those who many not know, a Nanny is a woman hired to bring up children, to show them what is right and wrong and to make them behave. I don't need a Nanny. I think I know what is good for me and what is not. But Nanny says, "Put on your seat-belts! Or you will get hit in the wallet - hard!"

We tell Bahamians to buckle-up, It can save your life. That has fallen on deaf ears. So now we have to say bucle-up, or pay half your weekly pay check. Now we hear that! If thats what it takes to get the message across then I say do it.

Community service....maybe. I guess people will feel compeled to buckle up after 9 hours of labour without pay. Something like that always irritates a few citizens.

In the mean time, if you don't feel like giving away up to $2000 max(depending on the size vehichle you have sedan, suv, coupe) I suggest you wear a seat belt. IT SAVES LIVES YA KNOW! esspecially out in that battlefield we call the road.

Yep, totally, after this they should look at enforcing the running red light laws, as that is getting worse every day, I cant believe the amount of people I see run the lights, its just about every light now that I come across, someone is running the light from one direction or the other. Ofcourse they cant be everywhere, maybe a licence capture system could be implemented, at least at a couple of the major lights, to start with, then as people get tickets they will eventually get used to not running them and hopefully the others.

But yes, seatbelts do save lifes.