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Deputies To Begin Click It Or Ticket Seat Belt Campaign
May 16, 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 21 through June 3″, according to a Sheriff’s Office news release.
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6 Responses to “Deputies To Begin Click It Or Ticket Seat Belt Campaign”
We could just ride a motorcycle.
WITHOUT A HELMET!!!
Adults should not be ticketed for not wearing a seatbelt. Adults should be ticketed for not buckling up their kids. Adults should be ticketed for texting while driving. It is a great idea to always buckle up but that law is not consistent with a free society. Not wearing a seatbelt does not effect other peoples rights. I don’t want to hear about insurance or we need to make many other things illegal such as swimming without a life jacket.
If a person gets in your vehicle then you should tell him to buckle up are get out. Simple! And yes we need to find out why our leaders cannot pass a text and cell phone ban in the State of Fl. No common knowledge anymore. You need a 6 million dollars system to tell you it is foggy on the I-10 bridge across the bay in Mobile. Idiots
I always wear my safety belt, it saved my life a few times no doubt, I also wear a helmet when I’m on my bike, what I don’t understand is why they like to throw stats out about seatbelts and ignore the bigger problem as to why so many wrecks are happening. It’s the distractions like cellphones/texting but they’re still legal..it’s only a $166. fine even if you kill multiple people, it just doesn’t make Any sense, people are dyin from others ignorance/selfishness and nothin is being done about because Everybody feels like it won’t happen to them til it does then they come up with the Lame excuse that “it was an accident”.. I feel sober people should be held accountable for their actions just like a drunk is.. there should be penalties for distracted driving on par with DUI laws.
Land of the free…
May I suggest they start at the Department of Children and Famiies office on Brent Lane across from PCA. I provided transportation for someone there today and sat in my car reading a book to pass the time while they went in to complete their business. I was there for about an hour and a half and out of 16 vehicles during that time with young children in tow only 2 seemed to be properly restrained. Probably the most egregious thing I saw was 2 different people in separate cars who came out carrying their baby in what looked like a nice carseat just placed the seat in the car and drove away without securing it. No they did not have a snap in base, I had that with mine and know what it looks like when you put one in. I was just flabbergasted at the disregard for their children’s lives. I have seen similar behaviors at the health dept in Molino.