{"id":583,"date":"2009-02-03T17:10:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T21:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=583"},"modified":"2017-12-20T09:54:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T14:54:39","slug":"the-real-reason-for-the-push-for-seatbelts-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2009\/02\/03\/the-real-reason-for-the-push-for-seatbelts-money\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Reason for the Push for Seatbelts: Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NH House Committee Debates Seatbelt Law<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>New Hampshire Only State Without Mandatory Seatbelt Law<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CONCORD, N.H. &#8212; The New Hampshire House Transportation Committee will meet Tuesday to discuss whether the Live Free or Die state should make wearing a seat belt mandatory.<br \/>\nNew Hampshire is the only state without such a law.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Democratic state Rep. Sally Kelly<\/strong> was once against requiring the use of seat belts, but now said the law is needed to prevent injury and death. <strong>She said enacting the law would give the state a one-time infusion of $3.7 million in federal highway funding and could qualify the state for more money later.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A survey of seatbelt use in New Hampshire last year showed that 69 percent of drivers wore seat belts, below the national average of 83 percent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opponents said the state can increase seatbelt use without requiring it by law.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New Hampshire has required seat belts for all those under 18 since 1997, for those under 12 since 1989 and for preschoolers since 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NH House Committee Debates Seatbelt Law New Hampshire Only State Without Mandatory Seatbelt Law CONCORD, N.H. &#8212; The New Hampshire House Transportation Committee will meet Tuesday to discuss whether the Live Free or Die state should make wearing a seat belt mandatory. New Hampshire is the only state without such a law. Democratic state Rep. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7000,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/7000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}