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Peabody sign painter Chip Ford who is organizing a statewide effort to repeal the state belt law insists his group is gaining momentum as they enter the last month of the campaign...
...decision to] wear a seat belt must be left up to the individual," says Ford, the chair and executive director of the Committee to Repeal the Mandatory Seat Belt Law. "It is not a public safety matter, it is a personal health mandate...
...Although Ford says he wears his seat belt, he is not convinced that seat belts always save lives...
...Ford notes that after a Massachusetts seat belt law was repealed in 1986, highway fatalities dropped in the state. And he adds that federal funding will not be lost, rather only transferred to the Governor's Highway Safety Bureau...
Referring to the 1986 Massachusetts vote repealing the seatbelt law by a 54 to 46 percent margin, Ford says: "People in Massachusetts really value their freedom...