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The sting of two fatal car crashes in Greater Cincinnati on Wednesday, both involving people not wearing seat belts, has police hoping their words will echo all the way to Columbus. That's where state legislators are considering a bill that would allow Ohio's police to stop motorists for seat-belt violations without pegging the stop to another infraction, such as speeding. If drivers won't buckle up, local police say, make them. “I've had to inform about 10 families about fatals, and let me tell you, it's never easy,” Madeira police Chief Gerald Beckman said Thursday, one day after an 18-year-old passenger was killed in Madeira. “And most could have been prevented.” Jessica Longbottom, 18, of Madison Place, was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from a Pontiac Firebird when it struck a tree and overturned into an embankment off Camargo Road. That was at 12:30 p.m. Ten hours earlier, at 2:20 a.m., 33-year-old Charlie Pridemore of Batavia was killed in a head-on crash on Ohio 125 near Amelia, Clermont County.
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