Click It or
Ticket Campaign Starts
May 18th
Abingdon Law
Enforcement Will Show Zero Tolerance
Abingdon, VA – Once again, the Abingdon
Police Department is reminding motorists to Click
It or Ticket. As part of the national seat belt enforcement campaign, law
enforcement agencies around the country will be stepping up enforcement May 18th
to 31st, just ahead of one of the busiest travel weekends of the year.
According
to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, nearly half of the
21,132 passenger vehicle occupants killed in crashes in 2013 were unrestrained.
At night from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., that number soared to 59 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.
Almost
twice as many males were killed in crashes as compared to females, with lower
belt use rates, too. Of the males killed in crashes in 2013, more than half
(54%) were unrestrained. For females killed in crashes, 41 percent were not
buckled up.
“If you
knew you were going to be in a crash, you would wear your seatbelt, however,
you don’t know when the next crash may occur. So please wear your seatbelt not
only for yourself but for those who care about you,” said Police Chief Tony
Sullivan.
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