Click It or Ticket Campaign May 22 - June 4 2017
Arcadia Police Will Show Zero Tolerance
As summer
kicks off and families hit the road for vacations, The Arcadia Police Department and the California
Office of Traffic Safety is reminding motorists to Click It or Ticket. Aimed at
enforcing seat belt use to help keep you and your family safe, the national
seat belt campaign will take place May 22 through June 4, concurrent with one
of the busiest travel and holiday weekends of the year.
As the
Memorial Day weekend approaches and the summer vacation season ramps up, The
Arcadia Police Department wants to keep our community members safe, and make
sure people are doing the one thing that can save them in a crash: buckling up.
If the campaign wakes up the hundreds of thousands of Californians who still
don’t heed the dangers of unrestrained driving and gets them to buckle up, it
will be a success.
According
to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), nearly half of
the 22,441 passenger vehicle occupants killed in crashes in 2015 were
unrestrained. During nighttime hours, that number soared to 57 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. In Arcadia, the ticket cost for
an adult seat belt violation is $162, with penalties for not restraining a
child at $465.
In 2015,
545 Californians where killed because they did not buckle their seat belts
according to NHTSA. Nationally, 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 2015, more than half (52%) were unrestrained. For females
killed in crashes, 42 percent were not buckled up.
For more
information on the Click It or Ticket mobilization,
please visit www.nhtsa.gov/ciot
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