Georgia Senate Says “Click It or Ticket” Should Apply to Pickups, Too

Posted & filed under Auto Safety, Georgia Car Insurance.

According to the Insurance Journal, earlier this week, the Georgia Senate revived a proposal that would require pickup truck drivers to wear seatbelts. The bill, which was approved with a vote of 45-2 was sponsored by Senator Don Thomas (R. – Dalton), a physician, who says the measure will save both lives and money in his state.

The proposal hasn’t ever managed to make it through the Georgia House, where it will be sent now, but Thomas feels that it will fare better this time, because of that chamber’s new leadership.

If the bill is signed into law, the state of Georgia, currently the only state that still exempts adults from wearing seatbelts in pickup trucks, will become eligible for federal incentive grants. While there are no lobbyists objecting to the bill, lawmakers from rural parts of the state believe it to be “unnecessary regulation.”