_The SaltLakeTribuneNATION/WORLD Monday, Ma AS Campaign‘AimstoHave Kids Buckled Up WWEWrestler Dies After Fall In Front of Horrified Audience Across the country, motorists who fail to make their children wearseat belts could beticketed bypolice THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Motorists whofail to buckle up children risk a ticket this week as more than 5,700 law enforcement agencies aroundthe country begin a safety awarenesscampaign. From todaythrough the Memorial Day weekend, officers will is- sue citations if children are not restrained in seat belts or child seats, said the Air Bag and Seat Belt Safety Campaign, sponsor of the semiannual crackdown. The safety effort has the support of 42 of the nation’s gover- nors. “When the possibility of being in a crash does not motivate people to buckle up their children, the probability of receiving a ticket has proven to be a power- ful motivator,’’ Govs. John Engler, R-Mich., and Howard Dean,D-Vt., said in a recentletter asking colleagues for their support. Six out of 10 childrenkilled in crashes wereriding unrestrained, according to federal figures. About half of those children would be alive if they were restrained properly, estimates the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Car crashes are the leading cause of death for children under 15. In 1997, more than 2,000 children werekilled and an additional 320,000 injured in traffic crashes, according to federalsta- tistics. “The bottom line is we're just trying to save children’s lives nd reduce injuries children sustain in traffic crashes,” said Sgt. Dertick Barker of the MichiganState Police. All states have laws requiring that children younger than 4 be But 27 states with seatbelt laws for those older children do not cover all youngsters under 16 when theyride in the back seat. All states allowpolice to stop and ticket motorists solely because the youngest children are not wearinga seat belt. Only 15 states and the District of Columbia have primary seat belt laws for adults and older chil- dren. Otherstates have secondary seat belt laws that require police to first pull motorists over for some other traffic offense. Helping promote the safety campaignare Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater and Jim Hall, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board All five youngsters survived The two belted teen-agers in the front seat had no injuries while restrained while riding in a ca: the three unbelted children in the and manystates also require that children younger than 16 wear back seat were injured seriously. Thomas Deck, then 9, found it hard to breathe after his larynx seatbelts. Rains Return Horrors to Central Americans BY FILADELFO ALEMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS POSOLTEGA, Nicaragua — Whenthe rains started falling again this month, horror returned to Posoltega. Skies turned dark, streams swelled — and the earth thrown up after the hurricane are still full, and people haverebuilt shacks along rivers that burst their banks. Many roads knocked out by Mitch remain unrepaired, adding to the isolation of areas with her 2-month-old baby, Jose. tions would be tough forrescue vadoran border was swept away by flooding. Hundreds of trucks line up with goods, but workers that even under normal condi- began to cough up bones. workersto reach. Maria del Carmen Solano, 54, survived the Oct. 30 mudslide — “If there is another emergency like Mitch, the government won't have the capacity to sheiter more caused by the monstrous Hurri- cane Mitch — that killed at least 2,000 people onthe siopes of the Casitas voleano here. But nothing prepared her for the grisly find she madein her back yard after a night of heavy rain in early May. It was a skull, entwined in the roots of a tree that had washed downthehill. “It gave mea great scare,” she said. “I think we'll find many more, becausea lot of people died up there.” With the rains, and the start of hurricane season June 1, Central Americans are reliving the terrors of last year’s storm, which killed as manyas 10,000 people in Honduras and Nicaragua, two of the hemisphere’s poorest coun- tries. Mitch killed hundreds more in El Salvador and Guatemala before weakening to a tropical storm and plowing into Florida people,” said Honduras’ highway director, Kathia Marlene Pastor. Just in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, 25,000 people remain in temporary housing. In northwestern Nicaragua, tents of plastic sheeting dot the countryside wherevictims left without work cannot replace damaged houses. Gregorio Sanchez, who managed to save himself and his three children but lost his home, corn- fields, chickens and pigs, still lives in a shelter near Posoltega. Hehasnoidea howhewill rebuild hislife. “If I don’t have land,” he said, “T'll continue to be nothing.” Heavy rains caused flash flood- ing May 2 in Tegucigalpa and sent thousands scurrying for high ground. “I'm afraid, and I'mnot a coward,” said America Juarez, a 38year-old maid who fled her home THE ASSOCIATED PRESS was punctured “T never thought I'd be in a car accident and that my brother go throughall that just to learn the sold-out crowd that initially thought the accident was a stunt OwenHart, 33, hit his head ona turnbuckle. Hart, who wrestles under the nickname “Blue Blaz- The campaignalso seeks to con- vince adults to buckle up because research has shown a belted driyer is three times more likely to restrain a child. Anywhere from er.” was given CPR inthering in 60 to 70 percent of Americans eral and statestatistics. Federal regulators credited the campaign with helping to buckle swing downbut somehowhe fell Commentator Jim Ross repeat ed over and over to the 14,000 fans in the arena that Hart's fall was not scripted, as professional wrestling matches openlyare shown. The TV audience was be Hart fell, but witnesses said the We thought it was a doll at The event was televised live on pay-per-view, butthefall was no! ing shown a montage of Hart's clips whenthe accident occurred and the camera panned through the crowd while paramedics worked on Hart MAYDAZE It was a reminder of how Mitch sent floods coursing throughcity boulevards, even pouring into the secondfloor of a hospital. 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