South Chicago Heights to Begin 'Click It or Ticket' in November

The will join state and local law enforcement officers for the 2012 Click It or Ticket safety belt enforcement campaign, Nov. 14 to Nov. 27, 2011.

During the campaign, officers will be cracking down both day and night on motorists who fail to wear their safety belts.

Because nighttime passenger vehicle occupants are among those least likely to buckle up and therefore more likely to die in motor vehicle crashes, nighttime enforcement has become a priority of the Click It or Ticket campaign. Of those who died nationwide in nighttime crashes in 2009, nearly two-thirds were not wearing a safety belt at the time of their fatal crash.                                                     

High-visibility enforcement such as the Click It or Ticket campaign is credited with increasing the Illinois safety belt usage rate from 70.2 percent in 2000 to an observed daytime usage rate of 92.6 percent in 2010. 

Safety belt use has saved thousands of lives each year across America. In 2009 alone, safety belts saved 12,713 lives nationwide. Data from the Illinois Department of Transportation’s Division of Traffic Safety indicates more than 4,000 lives have been saved since Illinois’ Click It or Ticket campaign kicked off in 2000.                                                                                                                         Buckle up and encourage your loved ones to do the same.  You will save the cost of a ticket and may even save a life. 

For more information on Click It or Ticket please visit www.buckleupillinois.org.

-Information submitted by South Chicago Heights Police