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Ohio State Highway Patrol and Law Enforcement Will Show Zero Tolerance<\/b><\/p>\nOhio State Highway Patrol and Law Enforcement Will Show Zero Tolerance<\/b><\/p>\n
As summer kicks off and families hit the road for vacations, the Ohio State Highway Patrol 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur law enforcement personnel see firsthand the loss of life when people refuse to buckle up,\u201d said Lieutenant Bob Ashenfelter. \u201cIt\u2019s such a simple thing, and it should be an automatic next step after sitting down in a vehicle.\u201d As the Memorial Day weekend approaches and the summer vacation season ramps up, \u201cWe want 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 enforcement crackdown wakes people up to the dangers of unrestrained driving and gets them to buckle up, we\u2019ll consider it a success.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, nearly half of the 22,441 passenger vehicle occupants killed in crashes in 2015 were unrestrained. At night from 6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m., that number soared to 57 percent of those killed. That\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
Nationwide 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you know someone who was killed in a crash because they did not buckle up?\u201d asked Lieutenant Ashenfelter. \u201cPlease, help us spread this life-saving message before one more friend or family member is killed as a result of this senseless inaction. Seat belts save lives, and everyone\u2014front seat and back, child and adult\u2014needs to remember to buckle up, every trip, every time.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more information on the Click It or Ticket mobilization, please visit www.nhtsa.gov\/ciot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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