3 killed, when pickup carrying more than 14 children flipped on Ala. highway.

[dixiegrrrrl]

Not until I read the story did I find:
Alabama in one of 19 states in the nation that has no restrictions on passengers riding in cargo areas of pickups.
19!!!!!!

Plus the pickup was speeding at more than 65 mph ( 50 is highway limit)
apparently blew a tire, flipped 4 times, then caught fire.

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2013/07/two_killed_nine_injured_in_us.html#incart_m-rpt-2

Is your state one of the 19????

[enlightenment]

1. Mine isn't, no.

http://www.iihs.org/laws/mapcargoareas.aspx

Very sad story.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. I don't see that.

I see that 8 Southern states DO have laws against it
and I notice Washington state does not.

[Hangingon]

9. I don't see that corre;ation at all.

[cordelia]

11. Some will take any opportunity to bring

divisiveness to the discussion.

3 people lost their lives, and the red state/blue state horse shit gets introduced.

Inhuman.

[snooper2]

13. it doesn't at all, are you going to respond back to anybody?

that is how discussion boards work FYI

[bigwillq]

3. No

I live in CT

[ananda]

4. I used to ride in the back of pickups when I was young ...

... visiting my grandparents or smalltown cousins.
It was common practice.

I guess it still is in a lot of places.

In the movie MUD, the boys rode in the back of a truck quite a bit.
That was in Arkansas.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. We did too.

In fact, where I lived, a 12 year old could legally drive a pickup on private property.
That was back when pickups were the work horse of farms and ranches, and kids were expected to carry their weight.

[AllINeedIsCoffee]

6. Unfortunately. KY allows people to be as careless as they want. nt

[rl6214]

8. Texas, the pickup capital of the world has restrictions.

This should be criminal and the driver prosecuted.

[Gormy Cuss]

10. I've never lived in a state where it was legal

and didn't know that it is allowed in so many states.

[hunter]

12. When I was a kid in Little League...

... we'd all jump in the back of the coach's pickup and go to the pizza place. It was legal then, but it hasn't been for a long time.

[mitchtv]

14. several counties in CA

have resrictions on pets without restraints as well

[bullwinkle428]

15. More "keep your filthy gov't. hands off my freedoms" mentality. And this is

NOT bashing the South as a region. I live in Iowa, which is one of the few states that allows motorcycles riders to run without a helmet. When the weather gets nice every year, the local news seems to lead with a spate of rider deaths on a regular basis.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. Someo fmy best friends are from Iowa.....

Seriously, I had not realized that helmets were not required in some states.
Results of no helmet are, sadly, inevitable.

Same with seat belts...many of us grew up drving with steering wheels the size of hubcaps, no seat belts.
But back then, there was half a ton of steel around the car.