Click It or Ticket

The national Click it or Ticket seat belt enforcement mobilization is from May 18 – 31.

Although seat belt use is required in any company vehicle, it is just as important to also buckle up in your personal vehicle when you’re off the clock.

In 2007, nearly 30,000 people in passenger vehicles were killed in traffic crashes nationwide; half of those killed were not buckled up.

Seat belts are the simplest way to reduce deaths and serious injuries.

In 2007 alone, seat belts saved an estimated 15,147 lives, yet one in five Americans still fail to buckle up regularly.

Below are numbers of people killed in traffic crashes in five states last year: ( LA – 985 | MS – 884 | NM – 413 | OK – 754 | TX – 3,363 )

The risks of a fatal crash are highest for nighttime drivers and passengers and young adults.

Nationally in 2007, 4,540 young men and women ages 16-20 were killed in motor vehicle crashes, and 61 percent were not buckled up at the time of the fatal crash.

In addition, nearly two-thirds of all those killed in fatal crashes at night were not buckled up.

On- and off-the-job motor vehicle crashes cost U.S. employers nearly $60 billion annually.

Costs from motor vehicle crashes totaled more than $200 billion nationwide.

Be a good example to your friends, family, and co-workers. Buckle up every time you get into a vehicle. Click It or Ticket — day and night.