Annual Click It or Ticket Seat Belt Enforcement Campaign Starts May 21

Warren County-area law enforcement will show zero tolerance

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (May 18, 2018) - As the unofficial start of summer, the Memorial Day holiday weekend is a busy time for Americans. Each year, the highways fill with families in vehicles, on their way to start their summer vacations. To help keep drivers and passengers stay safe, Warren County Safe Communities Coalition is reminding motorists to Click It or Ticket. 

Aimed at enforcing seat belt use to help keep families safe, the national seat belt campaign will take place May 21 through June 3, concurrent with the busy travel season, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

“Buckling your seat belt and making sure all passengers in your car have buckled their seat belts is a simple task that can keep you and your family safe, and importantly, alive,” said Ann Brock, coordinator for Warren County Safe Community Coalition, and trauma outreach coordinator for Atrium Medical Center’s Level III Trauma Center.

According to NHTSA, nearly half (48%) of the passenger vehicle occupants killed in crashes in 2016 across the U.S. were unrestrained. At night from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., that number soared to 56 percent of those killed. That’s why one focus of the Click It or Ticket campaign is nighttime enforcement. Participating law enforcement agencies will be taking a no-excuses approach to seat belt law enforcement, writing citations day and night.

Last year in Warren County, there were 250 traffic crashes involving drivers and passengers who were unrestrained at the time of the accident, according to traffic safety analysis by Ohio Department of Transportation. Of those, nine people died in crashes in 2017 in Warren County and were not wearing a seat belt.

“Wearing a seat belt reduces injuries and saves lives. This Memorial Day weekend, all available Troopers from the Lebanon Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol will be out aggressively enforcing seat belt violations,” said Lt. Chuck O’Bryon, commander of the Ohio State Highway Patrol Lebanon Post.

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