Senate Revisits Pickup Truck Seatbelt Law

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(STATEHOUSE) - The Senate will try again to close the pickup-truck loophole in Indiana’s seat-belt law.

Hoosiers are about one-third less likely to buckle up in a pickup truck. Supporters contend usage rates would rise if it were the law.

Darryl Minix of Kokomo says it might have saved his daughter Megan, who he says always buckled up in their car... but died in a pickup crash in 2004. He says his younger daughter reported Megan often skipped the seat belt in her boyfriend's pickup, because the truck gave the sense of riding above any possible harm.

157 of the 938 people killed on Indiana roads in 2005 were in pickups, and two-thirds of those weren't wearing seat belts.

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