JohnSS
11/4/2014 04:21 EST
Stolen from the Expats in SJDS FB group:
The traffic police are now enforcing the new LEY 431 requirement that all passengers including those in the back seat need to wear seat belts. Used to be front seat only.
Commercial carriers like taxis & buses apparently exempt.
And driver plus passengers on a motorcycle need to wear a helmet. Used to be driver only.
Those may seem obvious but lots of people didn't go for it.
BTW Google for:
LEY 431 pdf Nicaragua
and it is available for download from several sources but probably hard to interpret the same as the police might.
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KeyWestPirate
11/4/2014 10:26 EST
Is this maybe only SJdS enforcement? I haven't seen anything
What it means for me, is less Nicaraguans will get a "ride" from me.
Why bother if my generosity is going to cost me?
What's the current bribe in SJdS for minor infractions like seat belt? It's still only C$100 in the north.
Ahh, Nicaragua . . . .
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majicjack
11/4/2014 11:14 EST
They have been enforcing the back seat here(Leon) for awhile. I have seen more passengers wearing helmets on motos also. I still see the driver on Moto's with the helmet on their arm.
I have a one ton pickup and the folks I give a ride are in the bed of the pickup. I guess that hasn't changed?
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KeyWestPirate
11/4/2014 12:07 EST
Yeah, I do that too, and there are no transito at all on most of the back roads.
My problem arises when I go to Estelí. People recognize the car (Highlander) and know I'm an easy touch.
But, the campo, every trip in the truck is constantly in and out. The road is so ugly that the stops really don't slow me down that much. It's a big deal for them, the buses are often so overcrowded that they pass the people by -and that's saying a lot for the bus drivers who pack them in like sardines.
Again, they know me, wave, I slow down if it's guys, they just jump in. Girls and women, I make a full stop.
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JohnSS
11/4/2014 18:37 EST
Who knows if & where & when laws will be enforced here. If it makes them a buck logic would say they would enforce the law but there is no logic here either. Several cars were nailed and apparently were not offered the easy to pay the fine.
I quit giving the cops a ride because something always ended up missing. The good ones get promoted up the ladder to a better job in a bigger city so lots of new blood. Both transitos and national real police.
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JohnSS
11/4/2014 18:41 EST
BTW the fine here is usually C$200 for me but if you are wrong who would complain? Tourist trap prices apply to everything.
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majicjack
11/5/2014 06:54 EST
That's the way I look at it. When I come out of the mountains, the crew cab is full. Hogs, chicken, goats, beans, corn and people fill the back. If there are old men and women, I try to let them inside the cab. It doesn't take anything away from me and nothing wrong with little acts of kindness. These people never forget that you helped them.
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majicjack
11/5/2014 07:06 EST
The police here have an old pickup and I volunteer 5 gals. of gas for it a month. We are very fortunate to have a very good group of cops here in Poneloya. Most of the problems they try to resolve here and keep it local and stay away from Leon. Anything very serious is of course a different story.
In Leon as I imagine in most places they choose a subject and when the pull you over for inspection you present all of your papers and they can't find anything they will ask for a specific document or look for you triangle, flashlight ot fire extinguisher. It upsets them when you have everything but that's the breaks. Being a gringo in a one ton ford pickup, I get pulled over a lot.
I have never had a cop here ask me for money. When they pull out their little laminated sheet with the amount of the fine, I tell them I want to pay the fine here and now. They will say prohibito but you flash the hundred cords and you are on you way. I give them a ride when going to Managua or out on the highway going to the mountains. It is good insurance against inspection stops.
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