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A testimonal from a seatbelt fanatic
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Because my wife Marsha won?t put down the latest Village Soup until she reads every word in it, I?m writing this without printed reference.
But as I recall, she said that half of the people stopped by the police in Knox Country last week were cited for not wearing a seatbelt. Marsha guessed that the fines for not wearing a seatbelt were substantial --- and even more for the second offence.
It was almost 40 years ago that Mr. Miller at the Rockland Plymouth garage handed me the keys to a new car so I could teach Rockland high school students how to drive. I couldn?t have been much of a teacher, because a couple of years ago I heard that one of my former students broke his neck in a crash because he wasn?t wearing his seatbelt. His uncle, who was driving and wearing a seatbelt, came out of it unscathed.
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