Click It or
Ticket
Click It or Ticket is a high visibility
enforcement program designed to raise safety belt usage and
save people from death and serious injury on the streets
and highways.
The program will use educational radio messages recorded personally by chiefs and sheriffs, along with stepped-up enforcement, to send a strong message that safety belts save lives.
The Click It or Ticket campaign is currently used in 18 other states and the District of Columbia. In other Click It or Ticket campaigns, the occupant restraint usage rate increased by more than 10 percent, meaning that thousands of previously unbuckled drivers and passengers began using safety belts and child safety seats.
The campaign consists of strict enforcement, strong educational messages in the form of ads on most radio stations in the area, and numerous public appearances by officers on behalf of the program.
Following the May 2007 Click It or Ticket campaign, Virginia's statewide safety belt compliance
rate is currently 79.9 percent. The goal of 2007 Click
It or Ticket was
to raise the rate to at least 82 percent.
Turkey Day Travelers
Crowded roads, airports expected for holiday despite higher gas prices
Drive Smart Va. announces Thanksgiving "Click It or Ticket"
As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, let’s think about more than parades, turkey and football. With more motorists expected to travel during this holiday than any other throughout the year, drivers need to think about making sure their love ones are buckled up properly in safety belts and approved child restraints.
Seatbelt crackdown planned for Prince William
Prince William County Police will join law enforcement agencies throughout Virginia in the "Click It or Ticket" mobilization to enforce the Commonwealth's safety belt and child safety seat laws.
Law Enforcement
Agencies Nationwide Crack Down on Safety Belt Violators
As New Report Details the 18 Percent Who Still Fail
to Obey the Law
Report Profiles One Out of Five Who "Still
Don't Get it" — Young Males, People who Live in
Rural Areas, and Pick-up Truck Drivers
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