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Click It Or Ticket Seat Belt Campaign Begins Today
May 20, 2013
Escambia County deputies being a two-week crackdown today that is designed to increase seat belt use and decrease motor vehicle fatalities across the county. The 2013 national Click It or Ticket seat belt enforcement campaign is designed to help save lives by cracking down on those who don’t buckle up.
Seat belt use saves thousands of lives across America each year. In fatal crashes during 2011, 77 percent of passenger vehicle occupants who were thrown from their vehicles were killed. However, only 1 percent of crash victims who were buckled up were totally ejected from their vehicles, compared to 31 percent of those who were unbelted.
NHTSA statistics show that in 2011 alone, seat belts saved an estimated 11,949 lives nationwide.
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 20 to June 2, 2013. Deputies will be ticketing unbelted vehicle occupants around the clock.
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8 Responses to “Click It Or Ticket Seat Belt Campaign Begins Today”
Granted it may be safer to wear a seatbelt but it should be my choice. Motorcycle riders do not have to wear a helmet. A woman can get an abortion. A teenager can get the morning after pill without parents permission. So why don’t I have a choice?
You bunch of babies. Quit your whining and wear your seat belt. It’s not that hard.
My nanny says if I don’t wear my seatbelt I will get a spanking. Nanny is looking out for me but who’s watching nanny?
To,I mean . Just another way to get money out of us
I always wear a seat belt,but I dont think the goverment has right to tell me too
Wow I live in century and you wouldve thought it started Friday they have been pulling every car that goes by over
Land of the free…
My parents where both fanatics about making sure we wore our seat belt growing up. From the time I started driving I’ve been hearing the echo of my Mom’s voice saying “put your seat belt on” every time I get in a car, so I have always worn my seat belt.
All that being said, some time in the 90’s the GBPD was having a “Click it or Ticket” campaign and while randomly being pulled over, as I unbuckled my seat belt to get my wallet out my back pocket, the officer came to my window and being that he didn’t see me with my seat belt on, I got a ticket for not wearing a seat belt.
That was really awesome.