Click It Or Ticket is Coming May 24 thru June 6, 2004
STATEWIDE SAFETY BELT CRACKDOWN
AIMED AT GEORGIA’S MEMORIAL DAY DRIVERS
Holiday motorists should prepare to encounter random road checks and concentrated patrols all across Georgia this Memorial Day period as state and local law enforcement launch their latest campaign to crackdown on safety belt violators.
The life-saving initiative is called Click It Or Ticket, and because this state has a “Primary Safety Belt Law,” deputies, police and state troopers can lawfully stop any motorist in Georgia by simply observing an unbelted driver or passenger in the vehicle. Based on previous Click It Or Ticket campaigns, law enforcement officers here will be writing tens-of-thousands of safety belt violations this Memorial Day holiday.
In Georgia, it’s part of the One Hundred Days Of Summer H.E.A.T. initiative launched by the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) to raise driver awareness about the deadly consequences of speed, impaired driving, and failure to use safety belts and child restraints.
Why such high-profile policing? Officers know from experience that the worry of getting stopped for a traffic ticket is sometimes the only motivation for motorists and their passengers to buckle-up. And yet, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 59-percent of passenger vehicle occupants killed in crashes nationwide, weren’t wearing their safety belts.
The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety says Georgia’s teens and young adults are really at risk because motor vehicle crashes are still the leading cause of death for teenagers and young adults in America. The latest DMVS data reveals car crashes also remain the No.1 Killer of kids age two-to-fourteen.
The fact is, fatally injured persons had the lowest seatbelt use in Georgia and safety belts are life-savers regardless of age. High visibility enforcement like Click It Or Ticket is a proven program to increase safety belt use here, so officers will continue to ticket unbelted occupants.
GOHS Director Bob Dallas says, “Wear your safety belt every trip, every time – and encourage your passengers and teens to do the same – or risk getting a ticket during the Click It Or Ticket Mobilization, May 24 through June 6, 2004.”
AIMED AT GEORGIA’S MEMORIAL DAY DRIVERS
Holiday motorists should prepare to encounter random road checks and concentrated patrols all across Georgia this Memorial Day period as state and local law enforcement launch their latest campaign to crackdown on safety belt violators.
The life-saving initiative is called Click It Or Ticket, and because this state has a “Primary Safety Belt Law,” deputies, police and state troopers can lawfully stop any motorist in Georgia by simply observing an unbelted driver or passenger in the vehicle. Based on previous Click It Or Ticket campaigns, law enforcement officers here will be writing tens-of-thousands of safety belt violations this Memorial Day holiday.
In Georgia, it’s part of the One Hundred Days Of Summer H.E.A.T. initiative launched by the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) to raise driver awareness about the deadly consequences of speed, impaired driving, and failure to use safety belts and child restraints.
Why such high-profile policing? Officers know from experience that the worry of getting stopped for a traffic ticket is sometimes the only motivation for motorists and their passengers to buckle-up. And yet, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 59-percent of passenger vehicle occupants killed in crashes nationwide, weren’t wearing their safety belts.
The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety says Georgia’s teens and young adults are really at risk because motor vehicle crashes are still the leading cause of death for teenagers and young adults in America. The latest DMVS data reveals car crashes also remain the No.1 Killer of kids age two-to-fourteen.
The fact is, fatally injured persons had the lowest seatbelt use in Georgia and safety belts are life-savers regardless of age. High visibility enforcement like Click It Or Ticket is a proven program to increase safety belt use here, so officers will continue to ticket unbelted occupants.
GOHS Director Bob Dallas says, “Wear your safety belt every trip, every time – and encourage your passengers and teens to do the same – or risk getting a ticket during the Click It Or Ticket Mobilization, May 24 through June 6, 2004.”
posted by East Point Police Department at 5/21/2004 09:38:00 PM
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