“Click It or Ticket” Campaign Running Through June 5th

One of the busiest travel holidays of the year is once again uniting statewide law enforcement in an effort to make sure all Georgia motorists and their passengers are buckled up.

The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety’s Click It or Ticket campaign will include police officers, deputies and troopers from every corner of the state from now until June 5th.

Data shows that unrestrained fatalities are still at an unacceptable level. From 2007 to 2013, Georgia averaged 466 unrestrained traffic deaths per year. Currently, when seatbelt use is known following a fatal crash, 51 percent of the state’s traffic deaths were restrained and 49 percent were not.

Nationwide, while 88.5 percent of passenger vehicle occupants buckle up in 2015, almost 50 percent of occupants in fatal crashes were not restrained. In some states, that rate is as high as 70 percent. In 2014, nearly half of the 21,022 people killed in traffic crashes were unrestrained. However, during the nighttime hours from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., that number increases to 57 percent.

That is why Click it or Ticket is conducted day and night. For more information on Georgia’s Click It or Ticket campaign and other seatbelt safety facts, visit www.gahighwaysafety.org or call 404-656-6996.