They're making the law a lot tougher, and don't need another reason to stop you. Wearing your seatbelt is the law in South Carolina, but beginning Friday, officers will have more authority to enforce it.
Driving without your seatbelt can be deadly.
"Of the more than 1,000 people that have been killed in car crashes this year, only about 200 of them were wearing their seatbelts at the time," Lance Corp. Paul Brouthers with the South Carolina Highway Patrol.
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