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Click It or Ticket campain May 12 through June 2, 2008.
Bill Curtis By: Bill Curtis
5:11 PM Friday, May 16th, 2008
California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers statewide will focus their attention on people who do not buckle up when riding in a vehicle. May 21, 2008, has been designated as a “Vehicle Occupant Safety Awareness and Education Day,” to coincide with the Statewide "Click It or Ticket" Mobilization May 12 through June 2, 2008.



“The goal of this campaign is to stress that seat belts save lives,” said CHP Capt. Brian Smith. “More than 30 percent of all vehicle passengers killed statewide in 2006 and 2007 were not buckled up at the time of the collision.

We hope people will learn from this and take the extra seconds to put on their seat belt or properly restrain their child. There's no do over when it comes to safety.”


CHP officers on grant-funded overtime, provided by the Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), will take to the road specifically looking for violations of seat belt and child safety restraint laws.


“Drivers who are found not wearing their seat belt or breaking the state's child safety seat laws will be ticketed,” said Capt. Smith .


According to OTS, seat belt usage by California motorists is at a record high, 94.6 percent. One of the CHP’s primary goals is to raise that number even higher, an effort that will require the public’s cooperation.


In 2007, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) issued 203,490 citations to drivers and passengers who failed to buckle up. That figure does not include the 16,517 tickets issued for child safety seat violations. California law requires children younger than age 6 or weighing less than 60 pounds to be properly secured in the back seat.


"We all need to have reminders," said Capt. Smith. "By having the black-and-whites out on the road, we want to educate the public to remind them to wear their seat belts. We all get a little careless sometimes."



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