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Click It Or Ticket: Deputies Begin Seat Belt Crackdown
March 20, 2012
Monday, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office began a two-week “Click It or Ticket” crackdown designed to increase seat belt use and decrease motor vehicle fatalities across the county. The campaign will run day and night.
According to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2010 nationally, 61 percent of the 10,647 passenger vehicle occupants who were killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes overnight (6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.) were not wearing their seat belts at the time of the fatal crash, compared to 42 percent during the daytime hours.
“That’s why Escambia County deputies are joining state and local law enforcement agencies and highway safety groups in supporting an aggressive national Click It or Ticket seat belt enforcement campaign from May 18 through May 31″, according to a Sheriff’s Office news release.
Pictured above and below: Just two days after a seat belt usage crackdown began in Escambia County last year, this motorist was stopped on Highway 97 after an Escambia County deputy observed him not wearing a seat belt. In an ironic twist, the bumper sticker on the truck states “Buckle Up! Or Pay Up!”. NorthEscambia.com file photos, click to enlarge.
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11 Responses to “Click It Or Ticket: Deputies Begin Seat Belt Crackdown”
And to add to the below comments,
Why do we allow passengers to ride in the bed of a truck? They aren’t getting tickets. Cops fly right on by them with not even a second glance.
I am an avid seat belt wearer and expect the same of my children, but I don’t agree with FORCING someone to wear a seatbelt.
So, if I accidentally pull out of the Tom Thumb after pumping gas and forget to put my seat belt on immediately, and a cop sees me-I could be paying a steep ticket?
I disagree with this. If I want to take the chance of potentially killing myself in a car wreck, I should have that right! (again, I wear my seat belt always!)
I am all for seat belts but why are helments optional for motorcyclist….
I remember that night 35 years ago, when Mr Buck and his son Daniel pulled me out of that Mustang, what was left of it, gas everywhere. I know without seatbelts and the Lord’s hand, I would have been dead. Buckle up people. Thanks Daniel.
ET, Motorcyclists have better lobbyists…. I buckle up and I wear a helmet, it’s my choice. I have responsibilities to my family, who will take care of the wife and kids while I’m splattered all over I-10 or Hwy. 29? or ejected out of my pick up somewhere. Same reason I don’t get hammered and drive.
It should be your choice to wear your seat belt or not like the post said before mine this is supposed to be land of the free….but i guess not
If the sheriffs office really cares so much, how about ticking Bufords for not having a flag man when they tie up a hill top where there is double yellow lines in
the middle of road. They had 2 trucks with no flagman on Jernigan and you could not tell what was over the hill. That’s why double yellows are there, you can’t see over the hill.
A deputy stopped me just out of Century. He said, why ain,t you using a seatbelt. I replied, I don,t won,t to. Then he said, here boy, take this book and write what I tell you too. Land of the free and unlearned. Rock on!!
sheriffs dept raising revenue. i buckle up; but it’s my choice NOT the governments. big brother always pushing.
This is a law that saves lives but why don’t don’t they do a study on motorcycles drivers that were killed wearing a helment and not wearing a helments. If our goverment is going to control one for safety why not control all for safety.
Land of the free…
Seatbelts, inexpensive life insurance.