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University Daily Kansan, March 23, 1984 Page 8
CAMPUS AND AREA
Penalties for car-seat law favored
By ROB KARWATH Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — If parents faced penalties for not strapping their children into seat belts and child safety seats, the number of children killed in Kansas traffic accidents could be cut in half, a highway patrolman testified before a Senate committee meeting yesterday.
Fourteen children died in car accidents on the road, said Sgt. Bill Gill and the patrolman.
Jacobs was one of 10 witnesses who testified in favor of the bill being considered by the Senate Transportation and Utilities Committee. Late last month the House passed the bill, 98-25.
THE BILL PROPOSES that parents or legal guardians secure children under the age of four with seat belts or child safety seats when the children ride in the front seat of passenger cars.
The parents or guardians would be fixed $10 plus court costs if stopped by police for allowing their children to ride in the front seat unprotected.
in the front seat inproper. The fine and the court costs would be dropped if the parent or guardian showed the judge proof of having purchased an approved child restraint device such as a safety seat.
device such as a car. The fine and court costs also would be the driver was not the child's parent or legal guardian or could prove the child was at least four years old.
Kansas already has a child restraint law requiring parents and guardians to secure their children under two years of age when the children ride in the front seat.
BUT THE LAW provides no punishment for violators. The sponsor of the bill, State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said police officers usually gave violators an oral warning or pamphlets about child safety seats, but they could not write tickets.
Arthur Cherry, a Topoca physician said that if the legislators could be in hospital emergency rooms when ambulances brought in children injured in accidents, they would not hesitate to pass the bill.
pass the bill.
"My responsibility is to put back items on the pieces in cases like you have just seen," he said, referring to a videotape of about 20 accidents shown during testimony by John Kemp, secretary of Transportation.
secretary of Transpacific
IN ONE SUCH CASE, Cherry spent
the night at Stormount Vail Hospital in
Topeka with the parents of a child who had suffered brain damage in a car accident.
"Spend a night with me in that situation then ask if requiring people to use child safety restraints is an invasion of privacy," he said.
Bason of prizess But Jacobs questioned the feasibility of fining drivers who did not secure their children.
In some cases, he said, police who
stop motorists for having children lose in the car might not be able to determine the age of the child or if the driver was the child's parent or legal guardian.
Jacobs said the bill could be amended to require drivers to present some kind of proof of the child's age and their relationship to him. If proof could not be provided immediately, the driver would be required to bring such verification to police within a certain time period.
The committee will probably vote on the bill tomorrow or sometime next week, Branson said. If approved, the committee will send the bill to the full Senate for consideration.
Branson said she hopes the Senate will approve the bill in its present form. If senators make the bill too restrictive by adding tough amendments, she said, the bill might be difficult for police to enforce and unfair to motorists.
Parking-zone reorganization would add spaces
By DAVID SWAFFORD Staff Reporter
The University Senate Executive Committee this week received recommendations for a new three-zone parking system at the University of Kansas that would increase legal parking space for some permit holders.
Bill Hopkins, chairman of the parking and traffic committee, presented
the recommendations that must be approved by SenEx and then University Council.
my Council.
During his presentation, Hopkins also said that permit prices might be lowered next fall because the parking and traffic office had been able to hold down operating costs. No plans have yet been made for such a decrease, however.
understand the rules.
understand the rules.
Blue zone and red zone parking lots would remain virtually the same, he said, but the yellow and green zones would be combined to form a new yellow zone.
He said that the recommendations would make it easier for people to
yellow jacket.
Chris kidd. Hays junior and SenEx
momma said, "What we have seen
seeks great. I was most impressed with
the combining of the yellow and green
zones. Essentially, it will give students
more parking space.
"It's a lot better system. I'm surprised they haven't done this before."
Under the proposal, persons with blue permits may park in any of the three zones. Persons with red permits may also park in yellow zones.
Other recommendations are to eliminate medical permits. Hopkins said that people who needed such a permit would be entitled to purchase whatever permits would be most convenient.
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